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04.23.2024
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Federal Trade Commission Makes Good on Promise to Ban Non-Competes
04.17.2024
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05.17.2022
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Supreme Court Clarifies that Emotional Distress Damages Are Not Available Under the Rehabilitation Act and the Affordable Care Act
In a recent ruling with implications for recipients of federal funding, the Supreme Court of the United States held that emotional distress damages are unavailable in private actions to enforce either the Rehabilitation Act of 1973 or the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act. By extension of the Court’s reasoning, these damages would likely be unavailable under two other statutes authorized by Congress’ Spending Clause power: Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972.