rescission
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Federal officials said the rescission will remove the national designation of roadless areas but does not mandate timber cutting or road construction.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 18, 2026
“If you are seeking rescission of a written contract, the claim is probably subject to a four-year statute of limitations.”
From MarketWatch ● May 20, 2026
“Because it is the unmaking of an agreement, rescission is an extreme remedy and should only be granted by a court of equity when it is ‘clearly warranted,’” the court wrote in the unsigned opinion.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 19, 2025
"It is undisputed that Musk fully performed under the 2018 grant, and Tesla and its stockholders were rewarded for his work," the ruling said as it reversed the rescission.
From Barron's ● Dec. 19, 2025
Agrippa secured for a short time the rescission of the fateful decree, but the capricious madman soon returned to his old frame of mind, and ordered his image to be set up immediately.
From Philo-Judaeus of Alexandria by Norman Bentwich
From then on, presidents had to request rescissions from Congress—essentially asking permission to withhold funds after they had been included in an appropriations bill.
From Barron's ● Oct. 6, 2025
“If Congress wanted a president to have that authority, it would need to change the law,” the GAO wrote in a post on pocket rescissions earlier this month.
From Salon ● Aug. 29, 2025
Similarly, the significant health and climate benefits sacrificed with these rescissions disproportionately harm people with compromised health and communities with high exposure to pollution or weather impacts.
From Slate ● Jun. 5, 2025
Simpson said that without such rescissions, as they are called in Washington, he couldn’t vote for the agriculture spending bill because the cuts “would have just been devastating.”
From Seattle Times ● Jul. 28, 2023
However, substantial further rescissions can and should be made when the war liquidation program tapers off and budgetary requirements for national defense are clarified.
From State of the Union Address by Harry S. Truman
