On July 22, 2016, the Civil Rights Division of the U.S. Department of Justice released an update to its September 2010 Report on the Religious Land Use and Institutionalized Persons Act (“RLUIPA”), 42 U.S.C. § 2000cc et seq. (The update is available at...
Month: October 2016
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Beware of the Unsuccessful Bidder Competing for a Government Contract
Byrne & Jones Enter., Inc. v. Monroe City R-1 School Dist., —S.W.3d.—, 2016 WL 4036760 (Mo. banc July 26, 2016). The Missouri Supreme Court now provides a mechanism whereby an unsuccessful bidder competing for a government contract may challenge the bidding...
DC Circuit Rules CFPB Structure Unconstitutional
If you do nothing else today, read this post! The United States District Court for the DC Circuit issued today what is probably the most significant opinion in the last 50 years. The Consumer Finance Protection Bureau (“CFPB”) has been handed what could be a fatal...