Monday, November 26th, 2001
Certiorari is dismissed as improvidently granted because petitioner now challenges statutes and regulations pertaining to the Department of Transportation's direct procurement of highway construction on federal lands while the Tenth Circuit considered only the constitutionality of the DOT's Disadvantaged Business Enterprise program as it pertains to using federal funds for highway projects let by States and localities.
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Monday, November 26th, 2001
The limited holding in Bivens v. Six Unknown Fed. Narcotics Agents, 403 U. S. 388, may not be extended to confer a right of action for damages against private entities acting under color of federal law.
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Monday, November 26th, 2001
The Indian Regulatory Gaming Act provision codified at 25 U. S. C. §2719(d)(i) does not exempt tribes from paying the gambling-related taxes imposed by chapter 35 of the Internal Revenue Code.
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Monday, November 12th, 2001
The Merit Systems Protection Board may review independently prior disciplinary actions pending in grievance proceedings when reviewing termination and other serious disciplinary actions.
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Monday, November 12th, 2001
The Fair Credit Reporting Act's statute of limitations-which requires an action to be brought "within two years from the date on which the liability arises, except that where a defendant has . . . willfully misrepresented any information required . . . to be disclosed to [the plaintiff] and the information . . . is material to [a claim under the Act], the action may be brought at any time within two years after [the plaintiff's] discovery . . . of the misrepresentation"-is not governed by a general rule that the limitations period begins to run when the plaintiff knows or has reason to know that she was injured.
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