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[gotocourt]

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[ryanthedemiboy]

The hospital in germany didn't reply to the final letter within the time limit set by my lawyer, so no settlement. We're suing them :/

[soolegal]

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[firstclassnigeria]

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[genquerdeer]

About writing-prompt-s drama:

There obviously IS a 'scam ring'. By that I mean the same scam ring we've been dealing with for years, regular tumblr bot farms now also pose as Palestinians refugees because those people are scum who will do anything for money. I've myself gotten asks from "Palestinians" clearly mass sent by a bot.

Idea that vetters are intentional scam ring is an insane racist conspiracy theory. However, they're all volunteers - they're not detectives, lawyers or anyone with formal training in recognizing e.g. forged documents or poking holes at made-up backstories.

Some scammers seem to have made it to vetted lists. This is either by slipping through the cracks, or by hacked accounts. Makes sense, an account that is vetted is a super prime target for a scammer. This is inevitable and de facto impossible to prevent in a crowdsourced approach. They're doing their best, but that just *improves* chances, not guarantees it.

A process that is 100% true would have to be centralized, slow, restrictive and would hurt more people that it would help. 1% of gfms being scammers is bad, but it's better than the alternative. If it really bothers you, you can just... donate to an accredited charity instead?

@writing-prompt-s accused 90-ghost of being a scammer on a post that had nothing to do with him nor was written by him. Bullshit I say. Mere *existence* of actual scammers doesn't absolve him one fucking bit.

[csmiclub]

              ❛ COSMIC CLUB ❜ ─────  A KISS IS THE BEGINNING OF CANNIBALISM.

COSMIC CLUB was initially founded as Cupid’s Club in Seattle, Washington, by Monika Holičová and Park Jin-young in 1995.

From its inception in 1995 until 2000, it operated as a music publishing house and video production company. In 2000, it restructured itself as a talent agency, moving its headquarters from Seattle to Seoul, South Korea. It began accepting trainees in 2000. The label changed its name to Cosmic Club in 2014.

The company’s first act was the female R&B trio Bloom in 2001. The group attracted some attention at its debut. However, this popularity didn’t last long; the trio disbanded in 2003, only two years after its debut. The company debuted its second act in 2004, a female pop duo called Silence of Stars or S.O.S. The duo generated the company's mainstream popularity. The duo would later be accredited as one of Korea’s biggest acts. 

Cosmic Club acquired Cult Creative in July 2015, but the latter would remain an independent label. Later, in November, it became a top shareholder in Antoinette Modeling and helped fund its opening.

The company has four subsidiaries: Cult Creative, Yugen Labs, Gods Complex Media, and Antoinette Modeling, collectively known as Sunflower Galaxy.

 Native Name. 코스믹 클럽

Romanized Name. koseumig keulleob

Company Type. Public

Industry. Entertainment

Genre. K-pop  •  Pop  •  R&B  •  Dance  •  Hip Hop

Founded. October 5, 1995

Founders. Monika Holičová & Park Jin-young

Headquarters.  Mapo-gu,  South  Korea

Key People. Monika Holičová ( co-founder, chairwoman & president ) & Park Jin-young ( co-founder, ceo & executive director )

Website. www.cosmic.com

        ── ★ ˙ ̟   COSMIC CLUB CONTROVERSIES.

 Dispute with Judith Song

In late May 2017, Judith Song, a soloist signed with Cult Creative and several other subsidiaries of Cosmic, applied to the Seoul Central District Court to investigate the validity of her contract with Cosmic. She felt her earnings were insufficient, given the revenue she generated for the corporation and its subsidiaries. News of this dispute caused Cosmic’s stock price to drop significantly. In addition, many JUDY fans protested the company, sending protest trucks demanding better treatment for the idol. As a result of the dispute, several of Judy's scheduled appearances were canceled.

The court ruled in favor of the soloist. In response, Cosmic held a press conference, claiming the suit was fraudulent, and filed a countersuit. However, the countersuit was dismissed, as the court found evidence supporting Judy’s claims.

In a statement released shortly after the lawsuit was concluded, Judy’s lawyers stated: "Despite the hostile back-and-forth between Ms. Song and Cosmic, we’ve reached an agreement. Things have been smoothed out, and there appear to be no hard feelings between the parties." 

        ── ★ ˙ ̟   SUBSIDIARIES.

The corporation acquired these labels and subsidiaries; however, they operate independently from Cosmic Club and receive support for creative activities. 

 CULT CREATIVE   ...  est. 2003

Yugēn Labs   ...  est. 2012

God's Complex Media   ...  est. 2014

Antoinette Modeling   …  est. 2016

HONEYSUCKLE PRODUCTIONS   ...  est. 2017

        ── ★ ˙ ̟   COSMIC CLUB ARTISTS.

BLOOM ﹙ female trio  ── 2001 - 2003; 2016; 2021 ﹚

SILENCE OF STARS ﹙ female duo  ── 2004 - 2013; indefinite hiatus ﹚

SUNNY AFTERNOON ﹙ four-member girl group ── 2011 - 2018; indefinite hiatus ﹚

BADLUCK ﹙ male duo  ── 2013 - 2019 ﹚

VINNY ﹙ male soloist  ── 2013 - present ﹚

PERSONA ﹙ female soloist  ── 2014 - 2022 ﹚

EUNOIA ﹙ eleven-member girl group  ── 2015 - present ﹚

BLUSHER ﹙ five-member girl group  ── 2016 - present ﹚

MIDAS ﹙ co-ed duo  ── 2016 - 2019; 2022 - present ﹚

SHIRO ﹙ female soloist  ── 2016 - 2023 ﹚

GIHWA ﹙ male soloist  ── 2022 - present ﹚

EGO ﹙ female trio  ── 2023 - present ﹚

        ── ★ ˙ ̟   COSMIC CLUB PRODUCERS.

LUCKYGIRL ﹙ female producer  ── 2003 - 2019; 2023 - present ﹚

DAEHYUN ﹙ male producer  ── 2003 - present ﹚

        ── ★ ˙ ̟   COSMIC CLUB KEY PEOPLE.

MONIKA HOLIČOVÁ ﹙ co-founder, chairwoman & president ﹚

PARK JIN-YOUNG﹙ co-founder, ceo & executive director ﹚

MONIKA HOLIČOVÁ ﹙ co-founder, chairwoman & president ﹚

PARK JIN-YOUNG﹙ co-founder, ceo & executive director ﹚

[beesmygod]

oh, so. there's this story thats semi-local to my hometown that ive been keeping up on via the reno subreddit. ive been gawking at it from afar in wonder bc i didnt know people could make this many bad decisions on purpose.

joey gilbert was a boxer who was forced to retire bc he's a cheating bitch who was roiding up and doing meth before fights. the list of drugs in his system would scatter an average human's atoms like dust.

as a shining example of the kind of education i paid for: joey gilbert graduated from my alma mater, UNR, with an english degree and then passed the nevada bar using a law degree gained from a diploma mill that is no longer accredited. so now gilbert practices law. this is the advertisement that greets you when you get off the plane at reno/tahoe airport.

every time i see this i want to laugh my ass off. the vague use of meme formatting even though he doesn't understand the conventions of an impact font meme. he has the dead doll eyes described by clint in jaws. he looks like if lowtax attended his own funeral. there's no phone number or website. google me bitch.

anyway, that's not the point. gilbert evidently fried what was left of his tenderized boxer brain with speed and has tried to fashion himself as the VIP in douglas county/vegas conservative circles. i guess he fits right in because they willingly embraced him. he was at the jan 6 riot and will loudly espouse basically any belief as long as hes getting paid. he tried to run for gov and lost the primary by over 20k votes. somehow he claims this is election fraud. he has yet to explain the mechanisms that would explain how douglas county and its republican chapter manufactured over 20000 votes for a republican primary without anyone noticing during a time when election fraud is a hot button topic, all because they feared that the guy they test research chemicals on was a legitimate threat.

hold up my bad. actually gilbert says HE won by over 50000 and the city of las vegas is suppressing the results. his case was thrown out and he was fined 88k for wasting everyone's time.

okay now: in july of 2023 (insane link btw lol. they keep saying shit like "yeah i did that. problem, bitch?",) the conservative douglas county board of trustees had a bitch fit over their lawyer, who has been in the position for over 20 years, for refusing to enforce a transgender sports ban. in an act of retaliation he was fired by a narrow vote and replaced with........

JOEY GILBERT!!!!!!!!

pros of this exchange:

cons of this exchange: he costs more, has no formal law education, the ACLU is going to rip them a new hole, its now october and he has charged the school district an eye-watering 100k in two months. the previous firm charged 18k a month.

in response, the board of trustees is convening in order to fire......the superintendent who has been in the position for 30 years bc he was against gilbert from the start.

nevada is so dedicated to being number 50 in the nation. its honestly heartwarming to think that even the dumbest, toothless hick can make it there by simply lying nonstop. thats the american way, baby!

[sahisan]

★ MENTALLY ILL BITCHES FROM HOMICIDE DEPARTMENT ☆

aka characters introductions.

masterpost / next

[name] - rank II detective. graduated from criminology university, after that enrolled in a police academy for an investigation course. worked for two years in homicide department, but had a large burnout from all the number of work and pressure, and quit for a year, now coming back to the same - not really same - place. [name] was a rank III detective before quitting, but now her place is taken by someone who seems to be getting promoted quickly.

scaramouche - rank III detective. graduated from criminology university with a master's degree and took crime analysis and criminal intelligence courses for another year. he monitored free places in the precinct for some time and, after seeing that he has a chance to get a job as a detective there (read as: after [name] quit and he saw a free job vacancy) immediately applied to practice in homicide department. was promoted to rank II almost instantly because of his abilities.

kazuha - intelligence analyst under sheriff's office. the only sane person out there. graduated from criminal justice and took practice in working with security threats and trending crimes. at first wanted to enroll into an IT major, but decided to just take programming courses and enroll in criminal justice instead, taking an intelligence analyst job after graduation. also, is the absolute cat lover #2 (or #3?), but due to the fact that he spends a lot of time on the computer, he has poor vision, and, usually, mistakes some heaps of garbage on the road with cats.

heizou - detective sergeant. graduated from criminology university with a master's degree (he shows off in front of everyone because of that). at first was a rank II detective like [name], but after solving two big cases which have been closed for nearly a year, got a promotion to a detective sergeant. specializes on finding all possible information, collecting evidence and analyzing it, takes most cases' investigations on himself and most people from homicide department rely on him a little too much.

albedo - forensic scientist. graduated from medical university with a speciality of surgeon, then found himself applying for practice in crime laboratories. despite his strange and, in some kind, even scary speciality, is an absolute cat lover that's why [name] - #1 cat lover on earth - liked him so much.

★ SOMEONE NOT FROM THE PRECINCT ☆

yanfei - attorney (lawyer). [name]'s highschool best friend. graduated from law university and got a juris doctor degree from an accredited law school. works in a court. helped [name] in many things - and continues to do so - such as pick a speciality in uni and help her mentally during the burnout a year ago. didn't want [name] to go back to working as a detective, worrying about that she may need therapy again.

★ synopsis - you worked as a professional detective in a nearby precinct for nearly two years, but then quit after having a burnout from all the work and pressure. now, a year and a full therapy later, you're back to that same precinct, but... your place is taken by another detective, sending you working a rank lower!

★ author's notes.

scara being the absolute BOOKWORM.

no jk i just wanted him to be badass.

★ taglist - open (comment to be added).

[coochiequeens]

I'm usually opposed to the death penalty but this guy should face a firing squad.

By Anna Slatz December 5, 2023

CONTENT NOTICE: This article contains a graphic description of child sexual abuse involving an infant. Reader discretion is appreciated.

A trans-identified male in McCracken County, Kentucky is facing charges of child sexual abuse after reportedly molesting a baby in his care. Maria Childres, 25, had been employed as a daycare worker in Paducah, Kentucky when the abuse is said to have occurred.

Childres was arrested in February of this year after the Department of Community Based Services (DCBS) received an anonymous tip detailing an alleged incident of abuse that had occurred in November of 2022. The tip, reportedly written by one of Childres’ co-workers, accused him of making inappropriate comments towards an infant while changing the child’s diaper, and touching the baby inappropriately.

Maria Childres. Photo Source: FACEBOOK

Following the receipt of the DCBS report, Paducah Police went down to Explore Learning Academy, Childres’ place of employment, to investigate. They spoke with a witness who corroborated the details of the anonymous report, and spoke with the director of the Academy, who appeared to have been aware of Childers’ behavior with the baby. Despite knowing what had occurred, the director had only given him a “write up.”

Reduxx has obtained the citation from the Paducah Police Department detailing the complaint, in which Childres is referred to using ���she/her” pronouns despite his legal sex being male.

According to the citation, Childres was confronted by another co-worker while he was changing the infant, who was concerned he was hurting her while wiping her genital area.

In response, Childres reportedly said “that was her clit area and she likes it. It just made her day.”

The witness police spoke with also stated that she saw Childres rub the baby’s vaginal area with his fingers while making the sickening remark.

Courtesy Paducah Police Department.

After being taken to the police station for questioning, Childres initially claimed he had not changed the infant’s diaper at all. He later admitted to having done so after an officer presented him with evidence in the form of a text that he had sent to the daycare’s director confirming the baby’s diaper had been changed.

Childres maintained that he had not made inappropriate comments or touched the baby sexually, and that he “often says things that are taken out of context.”

Childres was charged with first-degree sexual abuse of a victim under the age of 12, and has been housed in the McCracken County Jail since. There has been some confusion over the spelling of his last name, with the courts, police, and his social feeds having different spellings alternating between “Childers” and “Childres.” The Kentucky Court of Justice has the name spelled “Childres.”

According to his now-delated Facebook, Childres claims to have studied child development at The University of Arizona Global Campus, an online college which has come under accreditation concerns in recent years. A separate Facebook account also belonging to Childres has his gender listed as “female.”

After speaking with a clerk at the McCracken County Court of Justice, Reduxx has confirmed that Childres has privately retained a prominent transgender lawyer to defend him during upcoming hearings.

Leach holding the transgender pride flag.

Madison Leach, a male who began identifying as a “woman” six years ago, was the first openly transgender candidate to seek public office in western Kentucky when he ran as a Democrat for the Calloway County attorney seat. Leach recently decided to leave Kentucky over Senate Bill 150, which would make it optional for public school teachers to use a student’s preferred pronouns.

“This is kind of the cherry on top for me. The quality of life in New York is going to be better for me, and I think that a lot of parents of trans youth or other trans people are debating this in their head,” Leach said in March, stating that he was intending to eventually move his practice to New York.

Childres is scheduled for a pretrial conference this week, at which point he and Leach will enter a plea or negotiate a potential resolution with the prosecutors.

[mybeautifulchristianjourney]

Why I Do Not Celebrate “LGBTQ+ Pride Month” But Mourn It

by Robert A.J. Gagnon

Not only is pride generally a sin, but also there is nothing to be proud of in the so-called "LGBTQ+ Pride Month." Let us love persons with same-sex attractions and gender-identity dysphoria by rejecting that facet of their existence that dishonors the persons whom God has created in his image.

We should also show sympathy for their struggle with sinful desires, and applaud the way God can use the mortification of such desires to deepen a relationship with himself and others. Yet no one should take pride in such desires or the behavior that follows from gratifying them.

I. What is there to be proud of?

Why should one take pride in being erotically aroused by the distinctives of one's own sex, which is either narcissism or self-deception (viz., the failure to apprehend that one is already fully one's own sex)?

Should people also take pride in being erotically aroused by close kin (incest, i.e., attraction to a kinship same, akin to attraction to a sexual same) or by multiple persons concurrently (which Jesus rejected based on the logic of God's intentional creation of a sexual binary)?

Why should one take pride in rejecting the messaging of one's body as designed by God by identifying with a "gender" at odds with one's biological sex? A complaint against one's Creator is nothing to be proud of, but rather an expression of idolatry.

II. Social harm and the condemnation of Scripture

The "queer" lifestyle is one marked by disproportionately high rates for sexually transmitted disease and higher numbers of sex partners (especially for homosexual males), as well as higher relational turnover and increased mental health problems (especially for homosexual females).

These risks correlate with known male-female differences; expected results when an intimate relationship lacks true sexual counterparts or complements. Same-sex unions don't moderate the extremes of a given sex; they ratchet them up; don't fill in the gaps, but widen the breach.

Scripture (including Jesus and the apostolic witness to him) views homosexual practice and transgenderism as abhorrent sexual immorality ("abominations") that can get unrepentant offenders excluded from God's kingdom. Such behaviors assault the foundation of sexual ethics as defined by Jesus himself, his Scripture, and his apostles.

III. The dangers of “LGBTQ+” politics

The "LGBTQ+" political agenda is the most illiberal and hateful agenda in politics today. It is characterized by efforts to stifle free speech and the free exercise of religion. It is the greatest threat to these freedoms in the Western world today, and has been for decades.

No political lobby has concentrated more on canceling and censoring others, indoctrinating school children, and even mandating compelled speech (the hallmark of totalitarians). People's jobs are being put at risk who dissent from "LGBTQ+" dogma: teachers, doctors, nurses, psychologists, florists, photographers, small business owners, lawyers, corporate executives, etc.

Children are being directed toward chemical castration and mutilation surgery, an obvious instance of child abuse being pushed by the state. Indeed, the state is now moving in the direction of regarding parents who fail to affirm their child's "LGBTQ+" identity as perpetrating child abuse (we know who the real child abusers are), requiring the state's intervention to take your own child away from you.

Men identifying falsely as women are invading women's restrooms, locker rooms, sports, shelters, and prisons, even being celebrated with misogynistic awards declaring them to be better women than real women.

The very idea of faithful Christian education is being put at risk, with calls for tying federal student loans, grants, and accreditation toward lock-step compliance with "LGBTQ+" ideology.

IV. Moral rot and true love

Science is suffering at the hands of a movement that teaches that men too can have periods and give birth. A gnostic spirit pervades the land, declaring entrapment in bodies not designed to express their sexually immoral desires.

This is not a month to be "proud" but rather a month to mourn. Mourn the moral rot pervading our country. It has harmed not only the nation as a whole, but especially those who in their self-delusion celebrate what is injurious to themselves, and to their relationship with others and God.

As Paul told the Corinthians, they should not be "puffed up" or "inflated with pride" over their ability to tolerate an egregious act of sexual immorality (there a case of adult-consensual incest). To support the "queer" life is a manifestation of functional hate, not love.

Therefore, I choose rather to love, to love truly, those who identify as "gay," "lesbian," "bisexual," and "transgender," rejoicing in the truth rather than in the lie, whatever the cost for doing so.

[gotocourt]

Brisbane traffic lawyers offering legal advice for traffic offences

[gatheringbones]

[“Many landlords were part-timers: machinists or preachers or police officers who came to own property almost by accident (through inheritance, say) and saw real estate as a side gig. But the last forty years had witnessed the professionalization of property management. Since 1970, the number of people primarily employed as property managers had more than quadrupled. As more landlords began buying more property and thinking of themselves primarily as landlords (instead of people who happened to own the unit downstairs), professional associations proliferated, and with them support services, accreditations, training materials, and financial instruments. According to the Library of Congress, only three books offering apartment-management advice were published between 1951 and 1975. Between 1976 and 2014, the number rose to 215. Even if most landlords in a given city did not consider themselves “professionals,” housing had become a business.

The evening’s speaker was Ken Shields, from the Self Storage Brokers of America. After selling his insurance company, Shields had begun looking for a way to get into real estate. He started out with rooming houses, which meant he started out renting mainly to poor single men. “Very nice cash flow. But I no longer have them.” The room chuckled. “I made some good money, and I mean, I love to get money, but I’m still just as happy not running around and dealing with some of these dregs of society who live in rooming houses.”Sherrena, who owned a couple of rooming houses, laughed along with the room. Then Shields found self-storage. “It’s got the residual incomes of an apartment building, but,” he lowered his voice, squinted, “you don’t have the people. You just got their stuff!…This is the sweetest spot in the whole American economy. A receptacle for an enormous cascade of money.”

The landlords loved Ken Shields, even if he did live in Illinois. When he finished his speech, the room broke into applause. The RING president, a mustached man with a full pouch for a stomach, stood up clapping. When there wasn’t a speaker, he often organized round robins. One such evening, a woman from Lead and Asbestos Information Center, Inc., had started off by announcing, “There is money to be made on lead,” to a room of landlords who more often lost money trying to abate it. One landlord asked whether he would have to report the presence of asbestos to the city or the tenants if he tested for it. “No, you don’t,” the woman had said.

The conversation moved on and someone else had asked about garnishing wages. A lawyer informed the room that a landlord was allowed to garnish a tenant’s bank account and up to 20 percent of his or her income, but the last $1,000 was exempt. And welfare recipients were off-limits.

“How about intercepting their tax refund?” Sherrena had asked.

The lawyer looked a bit stunned. “Noooo, only the government can do that.”

Sherrena already knew that. She had looked into it before. Her question wasn’t a question; it was a message to Eric, Mark, Kathy, and everyone else in the room that she would do almost anything to get the rent. Many white landlords knew money could be made in the inner city, where property was cheap, but the thought of collecting payments on the North Side, let alone passing out eviction notices, made them nervous. Sherrena wanted them to know that she could help.”]

matthew desmond, from evicted: poverty and profit in the american city, 2016

[laurasimonsdaughter]

Dear MagiSoWo,

I was recently the target of a curse, and while I do intend to press legal charges against the offending spellcaster, that's not what I'm mailing in for. You see, the curse in question transformed me into some form of fae creature, a sprite or a pixie or something. I'm small and winged now, and (according to my doctor) it seems I'm unlikely to get this curse removed anytime soon. Do you have any advice for adapting my living space for my new physiology? Everything's too big or too far away now, even typing this was a chore. Any help would be appreciated.

-Distressed Pixie(?)

Dear Distressed Pixie (?),

We can certainly provide you with some practical advice about the aids and structural adaptations that can improve accessibility for the diminutive in a world geared towards larger people. We shall attach some information on size altering amulets, diminutive housing, and occult technology concerning voice controlled appliances, to give you an idea of what your options are.

All these solutions can be quite expensive though, so we strongly advise you to hire a lawyer to help you with pressing charges, if you have not done so already. Curses such as yours are rare, we're very sorry you have found yourself in this position. But in fairly similar cases the court generally orders the layer of the curse to compensate their victim for the damages, including the cost of necessary life changes.

For criminal cases of this serious a nature, you have a right to free legal representation by an accredited victim lawyer. You can find a list of registered bureaus and individuals with the necessary accreditation on our website, with some information on their supernatural expertise. The legalese can be hard to parse sometimes, but generally speaking you need someone who has experience with "forced transformation" cases.

If you would like one of our caseworkers to look help you find a suitable lawyer and to begin the process of making your living situation more comfortable, please don't hesitate to call or text to the attached number.

~ the MagiSoWo Team

[that-left-turn]

Can we talk about the truth that DD is not MMB’s show equally? It just isn’t and that’s ok. The relationship with her and NR or Caryl is not a romantic one. It’s soul mate friendship and I love that for my faves. My best friend had meant more to me than my ex-husband. thats where caryl is. Daryl is more important than Ezekiel but not in a romantic way which makes Carol as a person so much stronger to find herself without need of a man to do so. Why isn’t that acceptable? MMB is not some shy young woman with no agency. I’m an entertainment lawyer in NY working on theater contracts and I know that these actors have negotiating power in these situations when they are legacy on a production. I’m sure she got what SHE wanted not want her fans think she wants. We don’t know her.

I assume you’re well aware that despite being adjacent fields, stage and screen operate very differently both logistically and financially. It’s not just that one thing happens live on a stage and the other is filmed. For one, stage actors are unionized by Equity while screen actors are represented by SAG. Regulations differ across the board for everything from pay scales to accreditation to workers’ rights. It’s not an apt comparison.

As individual viewers, we relate to the narrative according to our personal experiences, but from a writing perspective, Carol’s relationship with Daryl has been romantically coded from the start. It’s very different from her relationship with Ezekiel, but not because one is romantic and the other one isn’t. Zeke is a foil for Daryl to show all the ways he ‘fits’ naturally and in a more healthy way with Carol than her other intimate relationships.

[the-writers-corner-inc]

Writing Prompt

"Sold your soul to a devil? Lost your name to a Fae? Faceless Ones coming for your puss? Do not fret! HELP IS AVAILABLE!"

"Hello, my name is Nicolas Cross, and I am the only accredited lawyer specializing in supernatural contract law. Whether you're looking for help in crafting a Genie's Wish that won't ruin your life, or need to barter for the safety of yourself or someone you love in the realm of Faerie, or just need to achieve your wildest dreams at a dire price that is just a little bit less dire, no road will take you further than Cross. Call now for a free initial consultation!*"

*No runes or words of power will be scribed during free consultation. Offer void for creatures of magic or whimsy, as well as inhabitants of the state of Alaska.

[mariacallous]

Over the last 16 years, presidential administrations of both parties have wielded the power of the Education Department not to just carry out congressional legislative directives but also to make their own policies—reshaping the federal government’s role in higher education. They’ve retooled the rules for accreditors, added new accountability measures for for-profit programs, overhauled the student loan system and changed how colleges respond to reports of sexual misconduct.

Not all of the policy changes survived legal challenges, but the legacy of legislating via regulation has endured. As Congress struggled to pass meaningful legislation related to higher education thanks to partisan gridlock, presidents increasingly opted to use the rule-making process to leave their mark on America’s colleges and universities.

But future administrations likely won’t be rewriting regulations in the same way after the Supreme Court on Friday ended a 40-year precedent under which federal courts deferred to agencies’ interpretations of ambiguous statutes. Chief Justice John Roberts Jr. wrote in the majority opinion that the deference to agencies known as the Chevron doctrine “cannot be reconciled” with the federal law dictating how the executive branch writes policies. Instead, federal judges should be empowered to determine whether a regulation complies with federal law.

“In one fell swoop, the majority today gives itself exclusive power over every open issue—no matter how expertise-driven or policy-laden—involving the meaning of regulatory law,” Justice Elena Kagan wrote in the dissent to last week’s ruling.

The court’s decision inLoper Bright Enterprises v. Raimondo significantly weakens the Education Department and other federal agencies and could grind the gears of higher ed policymaking to a halt unless Congress steps up, experts said Monday, warning of chaos and uncertainty for colleges and universities.

“Almost every aspect of running a modern campus is dictated in some way by federal regulations or guidance—whether that’s how you make staffing, compensation, training or enrollment decisions all the way down to the level of what you put on your website,” Jon Fansmith, senior vice president for government relations and national engagement at the American Council on Education, writes in an essay for Inside Higher Ed today. “It can be burdensome or contradictory and in some cases nonsensical, but mostly it was ‘the law.’ No more.”

The Biden administration’s new rules on Title IX, debt relief, gainful employment and more could all face greater judicial scrutiny in a post-Chevron environment. Case in point: On Monday a federal judge presiding over a lawsuit challenging the new Title IX rule requested that the states suing and the administration’s lawyers file briefs addressing the potential impact of the Loper Bright decision. What could happen to the batch of rules negotiated in the spring that deal with accreditation, state authorization and textbook pricing is also uncertain.

Some policy analysts, though, question the significance of the court’s decision, given that the doctrine hasn’t been applied consistently across the judiciary and that the Supreme Court hasn’t relied on it since 2016. Jason Delisle, a nonresident senior policy fellow at the Urban Institute’s Center on Education Data and Policy, said agency actions are challenged in courts all the time and judges could still side with the department.

Delisle added that those bemoaning the end of Chevron seem to be supporting the idea that “Congress can pass vague laws and agencies can do whatever they want.”

“If it really is as big of a deal as people think it is, then there’s a really easy solution, which is Congress can just specify things in law more and don’t make bold moves in your regulation,” Delisle added. “What’s so bad about that?”

In a signal of what’s to come from Republicans in Congress, Dr. Bill Cassidy, a U.S. senator from Louisiana, sought more information over the weekend about how the Education Department plans to comply with the court’s ruling.

“Given your agency’s track record, I am concerned about whether and how the department will adapt to and faithfully implement both the letter and spirit of this decision,” wrote Cassidy, the top Republican on the Senate education committee. “The department has flagrantly and repeatedly violated the law.”

Cassidy celebrated Chevron’s demise, saying in a statement that Chevron deference allowed unelected bureaucrats “to exercise power that exceeds their authority” and that the decision returns the role of legislating to Congress. The association representing for-profit colleges and universities also applauded the court’s decision.

“No agency has overreached more in exceeding congressional authority than the current U.S. Department of Education,” said Jason Altmire, chief executive officer of Career Education Colleges and Universities. “We are pleased that the Supreme Court has, once and for all, restrained the ability of the ideologically driven bureaucrats in the department to craft regulations based upon their own whims and biases, rather [than] what Congress had intended.”

Chevron Deference and Higher Ed

A 14-year project at the federal level to define what it means “to prepare students for gainful employment in a recognized occupation” is a case study in how agencies rely on Chevron deference to justify their actions.

When Congress first required some higher education programs to prepare their students for gainful employment in 1965, it didn’t define the term. Then, in 2010, the Obama administration’s Education Department rolled out a proposal to measure whether students were prepared for employment largely by looking at their debt load and earnings. Programs that failed the tests in the proposal would’ve lost access to federal financial aid, though that never happened.

The 2010 version of the so-called gainful-employment rule was struck down by the courts, but a district judge dismissed a challenge to the 2014 regulations, citing Chevron. The Trump administration later rescinded that rule, but the Biden administration resurrected the issue last year.

The latest version of the gainful-employment rule took effect Monday and applies to programs at for-profit institutions as well as nondegree programs in any sector, but the demise of Chevron could make the regulations more vulnerable to challenge.

Rebecca Natow, an assistant professor of educational leadership and policy at Hofstra University who researches federal higher education policymaking, said the end of Chevron will likely open the door to more lawsuits challenging administrative actions from regulations to guidance documents and the latest gainful-employment rule could be in trouble now.

“Without Chevron deference, courts can second-guess what agencies are deciding,” said Natow. “That’s problematic. The judges and federal law clerks are lawyers, not experts. They’re not living in the regulations the way the people that work in the agencies are … Just because agencies are unelected bureaucrats, it’s not a reason to take the deference away from them. They have all of that technical knowledge, all of that expertise.”

Barmak Nassirian, vice president for higher education policy at Veterans Education Success, an advocacy group, has participated in several rounds of rule making on gainful employment and other topics. He’s worried about giving judges the power to decide higher education policy—judgments that require an understanding of the technical details of regulations.

“We’re talking about taking challenges that make your eyes glaze over,” he said. “The notion that you can now take this to a judge who has never heard of gainful employment until the case has popped up—it’s hard to believe.”

Nassirian added that deference to agencies isn’t “always a happy thing,” particularly if you disagree with the party in power. But then when the politics favor your interests, he said, there are opportunities to change policies.

“That’s the nature of democracy,” he said. “This basically ends all of that.”

‘Congress Is a Mess’

For Rachel Fishman, director of higher education policy at New America, a left-leaning think tank, the fallout of the Loper Bright decision is hard to imagine in terms of the potential impact of new and future regulations. It won’t be good for students and taxpayers, she predicts, though other potential ramifications are unclear.

“It shows the importance of statute moving forward, and boy, does that worry me, because Congress is a mess,” she said. “It’s hard to envision good, thoughtful, smart bipartisan [legislation].”

The Higher Education Act of 1965, last updated in 2008, is long overdue for a refresh, and Fishman said that reauthorizing the legislation that governs federal financial aid programs and a range of other policies is going to be even more important post-Chevron.

Natow expects the end of Chevron to bring federal policymaking to a “near standstill” with a divided Congress and increasing political polarization that makes bipartisan compromise elusive.

“It’s really, really hard to get any meaningful higher education legislation through Congress, and I can’t imagine [this decision] is going to jolt Congress into, all of the sudden, wanting to have the two parties work together and pass legislation.”

Ending Chevron also means that when Congress does pass a law, the legislation will have to be more detailed and clear. But, Natow said, the more detailed the legislation gets, the harder it is to build consensus.

“Legislation has to be vague or it would never get through,” she said.

Nassirian is also skeptical of Congress’s capacity to step in and fill the void left by a potentially weaker Education Department.

“Congress, at some point, has to rely on the agency,” he said. “I just can’t grasp the notion of attempting to run the government through explicit legislative authorization. So it’s hard to do lots of details. There’s lots of things that are susceptible to change that cannot be chiseled into marble through legislative language. So there has to be some discretion, some interpretive discretion, for agencies to run the system … You really ponder how we can function as a country.”