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18 Dec 2014, 9:01 pm
As 2014 draws to a close, we thought it appropriate to reflect on some of the most significant constitutional developments of the past year. [read post]
9 Dec 2014, 9:01 pm
As Vikram David Amar and Alan E. [read post]
7 Dec 2014, 9:01 pm
In Part One of this two-part series, I contended that the reading of the Obamacare statute offered by the plaintiffs in the important King v. [read post]
5 Dec 2014, 7:26 am
Burwell": Law professor Vikram David Amar has this essay online today at Justia's Verdict. [read post]
4 Dec 2014, 9:01 pm
In an essay for this website a few weeks ago, my fellow columnist and friend Mike Dorf wrote about how the Obamacare statute (Act) might be in danger in the King v. [read post]
20 Nov 2014, 9:01 pm
Over the next few days, the California Bar announces the outcomes from the July 2014 exam. [read post]
6 Nov 2014, 9:01 pm
Vikram David Amar, a Justia columnist, is the Associate Dean for Academic Affairs and Professor of Law at the University of California, Davis School of Law. [read post]
23 Oct 2014, 9:01 pm
Among the interesting U.S. [read post]
9 Oct 2014, 9:01 pm
’Tis the season to begin looking carefully at the Supreme Court’s 2014–2015 docket, now that the Justices have returned from their summer recess and are hearing cases again. [read post]
4 Oct 2014, 8:17 am
" Scalia thus arguably implied that the elimination of the "under God" phrase could not be accomplished by any Court — even his own....The standard for recusal is vague — "[a]ny justice, judge or magistrate of the United States shall disqualify himself in any proceeding in which his impartiality might reasonably be questioned" — and there's a great deal of analysis of it at that last link by Vikram David Amar. [read post]
24 Sep 2014, 9:01 pm
The past year or so has been a rough period for people who support the design of the direct democracy process in California. [read post]
28 Aug 2014, 9:01 pm
A few months ago, I wrote about an effort by the California legislature to undo an unwise (but duly enacted) voter initiative involving immigration policy. [read post]
14 Aug 2014, 9:01 pm
As the fall semester approaches and college freshmen prepare to start school, there is renewed criticism of the University of California’s decision, implemented over the last few years at all or nearly all of the system’s campuses, to increase the number and percentage of out-of-state and international college students. [read post]
31 Jul 2014, 9:01 pm
In my last column, Part I of this Two-Part series, I argued that lower courts are justified in paying (indeed perhaps required to pay) close attention to Justice Kennedy’s concurring opinion in this summer’s blockbuster Burwell v. [read post]
17 Jul 2014, 9:01 pm
Legal and political commentators have already spent thousands of hours on how best to understand Justice Alito’s majority opinion in Burwell v. [read post]
30 Jun 2014, 9:14 am
Burwell).In a 5-4 opinion by Justice Samuel Alito, the Court held that the Religious Freedom Restoration Act (RFRA) permits a closely held for-profit corporation to deny its employees the health coverage of contraceptives to which the employees are otherwise entitled by the federal Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act of 2010 (ACA), based on the religious objections of the corporation’s owners.Here is some commentary tracking the progress of these cases before the Court’s… [read post]
29 Jun 2014, 9:01 pm
In my last column, I began analyzing SB 396, a laudable but legally questionable effort by the California legislature to repeal, by ordinary legislation, provisions of Proposition 187, a 1994 voter-enacted measure that imposed harsh restrictions on unlawful immigrants in the State, restrictions that have since been blocked indefinitely by a federal district court judge. [read post]
19 Jun 2014, 9:01 pm
In the space below, I analyze a pending effort by California lawmakers to cleanse the California statute books of (what are to my mind) some mean-spirited provisions concerning the treatment of undocumented immigrants in the State. [read post]
5 Jun 2014, 9:01 pm
While many analysts this month are understandably focused on the blockbuster rulings that are due from the Supreme Court in June—the back end of the Supreme Court litigation process, if you will—in my column today I introduce and briefly analyze the front end of three cases on which the Court has granted review for the next Term, which begins this fall. [read post]
22 May 2014, 9:01 pm
Earlier this month, in Town of Greece v. [read post]
