State lawyers said the ban from six weeks is valid because the same federal constitution governs today as when the act was passed. The Georgia Supreme Court heard oral arguments for yet another ...

What is an AB Initio? in law, when something is true "from the beginning" of the act rather than when the court rules that it happened. Ryan is headed to his first job interview since he was laid off ...

THE Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) has been saying it all along, and it is no longer surprising that Environment Secretary Antonia Yulo-Loyzaga has openly articulated it in the ...

The doctrine of "void ab initio" is normally seen in the context of due process challenges to enactment of statutes. As summarized in Messina , the doctrine stands for the principle that a statute ...

In an opinion yesterday (in Sistersong Women of Color Reproductive Justice Coalition v. Georgia), Georgia superior court judge Robert McBurney ruled that core portions of Georgia’s 2019 law barring ...

This is the third in a series of posts summarizing an article titled Remand Without Vacatur and the Ab Initio Invalidity of Unlawful Regulations in Administrative Law, which is forthcoming in the BYU ...

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MANILA, Philippines – Masungi Georeserve Foundation’s contract to conserve a protected area is “void” from the very beginning, said the Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) on ...

Q. I’m a veteran and bought my house via a VA loan. I was always the only one on the loan. My wife and I were together as husband and wife on the deed. When she died a few years ago, I recorded a new ...