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27 Mar 2014, 9:01 pm by Vikram David Amar
These “structural” provisions and themes are often distinguished from the “rights” aspects of a constitution, which concern the relationship between all institutions of government, on the one hand, and private individuals (or groups of individuals), on the other. [read post]
Abbott Laboratories, a unanimous three-judge panel ruled that it violates the Fourteenth Amendment’s Equal Protection Clause for a lawyer to “strike” (that is, remove) individuals from a jury panel on account of their sexual orientation. [read post]
16 Jan 2014, 9:01 pm by Vikram David Amar
He is a 1988 graduate of the Yale Law School, and a former clerk to Justice Harry Blackmun. [read post]
2 Jan 2014, 9:01 pm by Vikram David Amar
Silicon Valley billionaire investor Tim Draper recently unveiled a plan to divide up California into six separate states because, in his view, “California’s diverse population and economies [have] rendered the state nearly ungovernable. [read post]
  The law’s challengers—individuals who seek to communicate with women who may, at that place and moment, be contemplating abortion—allege that the law violates the First Amendment. [read post]
5 Dec 2013, 9:01 pm by Vikram David Amar
  (Individual state legislators or groups of legislators remain free, of course, outside the ballot itself and outside of formal legislative actions, to endorse or lambaste particular U.S. [read post]
14 Nov 2013, 1:04 pm by Roshonda Scipio
Administrative LawFederal administrative law / by Gary Lawson.Lawson, Gary, 1958-St. [read post]
While these arguments have substantial force, they may not persuade a sufficient number of, or the right individual, Justices. [read post]
29 Aug 2013, 9:01 pm by Vikram David Amar
A lawyer’s clients or customers may include individuals, businesses, government agencies, judges, in-house counsel, or (quite often) other lawyers, such as partners, within a practice group. [read post]
15 Aug 2013, 9:01 pm by Vikram David Amar
  Some analysts think that if lawyers ask (as they may need to ask) tough questions to would-be jurors to determine whether particular individuals should be removed for cause, peremptory challenges are needed to remove those would-be jurors who might have been put off or offended by the tough questioning. [read post]
31 Jul 2013, 9:01 pm by Vikram David Amar
  For starters, we must remember that a judicial invalidation of a law and an injunction against its enforcement aren’t the same as getting rid of the law; the measure remains on the books, and conceivably could spring back to life if a different Governor or Attorney General tried to reopen the case and undo the federal court injunction by defending Proposition 8 on the merits (something Governors Schwarzenegger and Brown, and Attorneys General Brown and Harris, never did.) [read post]
20 Jun 2013, 9:01 pm by Vikram David Amar
  In the DOMA case, there seemed at oral argument to be some support among the Justices to invalidate the challenged provision of DOMA without imposing same-sex marriage on unwilling states (by relying to some extent on federalism rather than individual rights), and I think in the Proposition 8 case the Court will also look to act as minimally as reasonably possible. [read post]
9 May 2013, 9:01 pm by Vikram David Amar
  It then discussed cases in which the Court had, under the Constitution, deferred to church tribunals that were established within a church’s hierarchy to resolve disputes over the proper use of church property or assets when disagreements between various individuals or factions within the church arose. [read post]
25 Apr 2013, 9:01 pm by Vikram David Amar
  First, some individual who supports Proposition 8 might sue one of these county clerks and ask a court to clarify that Judge Walker’s injunction does not apply to that clerk. [read post]
14 Mar 2013, 9:01 pm by Vikram David Amar
This system, with enough states as signatories, would generally mean that the winner of the Presidential contest would be the person who had won the largest number of votes from individual voters nationwide. [read post]