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8 May 2022, 9:01 pm
When a federal court (especially a U.S. [read post]
10 May 2022, 9:01 pm
In Part One of this series, we discussed the historical and doctrinal background of so-called certification, a practice by which federal courts (especially federal appellate courts) certify questions to state high courts when cases in federal court might turn in whole or in part on unresolved questions of state law. [read post]
7 Mar 2019, 9:01 pm
In our two previous columns on the recent lawsuit by a Texas-based nonprofit organization—Faculty, Alumni, and Students Opposed to Racial Preferences (FASORP)—against Harvard Law Review (HLR) for its use of race and gender in selecting its members and authors for publication, we explored challenges the plaintiff faces in establishing standing to sue in federal court, the relationship of Title VI and IX (the statutory provisions the plaintiff has invoked) to the constitutional… [read post]
20 Mar 2022, 9:01 pm
One shouldn’t push the cases too far because (as Amar noted in his critique of them) members of the U.S. [read post]
10 Apr 2023, 9:00 pm
National attention has recently been directed to the boisterous protest by Stanford Law School (SLS) students at a Federalist Society Event featuring Judge Kyle Duncan, a conservative Trump-appointed judge on the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit. [read post]
15 Oct 2020, 9:01 pm
As readers of this series will no doubt recall, in 2012 the Supreme Court in National Federation of Independent Business (NFIB) v. [read post]
24 Mar 2024, 9:01 pm
Earlier this month, in Trump v. [read post]
28 Apr 2024, 9:01 pm
The two of us just finished co-teaching a law school class focused on the Free Speech Clause of the First Amendment, and this semester has not lacked for plenty of cutting-edge, ripped-from-the headlines fodder for us to explore with our students. [read post]
29 Apr 2024, 9:01 pm
In this, the second of a two-part essay series, we continue to explore the constitutional issues raised by a recent episode in which a public high school (Central Davidson High School in Lexington, North Carolina) imposed disciplinary suspension on a student, Christian McGhee, for invoking the term “illegal alien” when asking a question to his teacher about an assignment. [read post]
19 Apr 2020, 9:00 pm
In spite of (or perhaps because of) the fact that the Supreme Court’s per curiam opinion two weeks ago in the Wisconsin election case, Republican National Committee (RNC) v. [read post]
1 Oct 2020, 9:01 pm
On November 10, the Supreme Court will hear argument in California v. [read post]
9 Dec 2020, 9:01 pm
In the first four parts of our series on the California v. [read post]
3 Oct 2019, 9:01 pm
Jason: Vik, as you know, last month three Virginia couples sued their state in federal court challenging a law requiring them to identify and report their race on the state’s marriage license application form. [read post]
16 Sep 2022, 9:30 pm
Vikram David Amar and Jason Mazzone respond to Erwin Chemerinsky on originalism (Verdict). [read post]
27 Feb 2024, 9:01 pm
In the space below, we raise and begin to analyze several interesting legal issues raised by the recent decision by a federal district court judge to dismiss the lawsuit filed by the Disney Corporation against Florida officials for alleged retaliation (against Disney’s outspoken opposition to certain Florida laws and policies) by altering the structure of the board that regulates the land in which Disney World is located. [read post]
12 Oct 2020, 9:01 pm
This second installment in our series on the upcoming legal challenge to the Affordable Care Act (ACA) in California v. [read post]
29 Oct 2020, 9:01 pm
Assume that in California v. [read post]
11 Feb 2021, 9:01 pm
As I and two colleagues (Jason Mazzone and Evan Caminker) explained in a series of columns (the last of which—that in turn links back to earlier parts—is here), the challenge to Obamacare in California v. [read post]
4 May 2023, 9:01 pm
Follow @prof_amar Vikram David Amar is the Dean and Iwan Foundation Professor of Law at the University of Illinois College of Law on the Urbana-Champaign campus. [read post]
11 Apr 2024, 9:01 pm
In two of my last three Verdict columns (this one and then this one co-authored with Jason Mazzone), I have discussed—in connection with the Supreme Court’s consideration in Trump v. [read post]
