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9 Dec 2008, 11:51 pm
Cohen was chief legal adviser to the CEO of the Novato, Ca. [read post]
16 Nov 2022, 6:30 am by Guest Blogger
The fossil fuel billionaire Charles Koch is a hardline libertarian who with his late brother David assembled an empire of think tanks and political advocacy organizations to vigorously promote libertarian policy goals, including deregulation, a reduced welfare state, and climate inaction. [read post]
23 Sep 2015, 9:01 pm by Vikram David Amar
Many of the essays posted on Verdict deal with Supreme Court cases; in today’s column I focus on an opinion issued by a court at the base, rather than the pinnacle, of the federal judicial system—this month’s ruling by a federal district court in Arizona disposing of residual challenges brought against Arizona’s SB 1070 statute, the statute passed in 2010 attempting to deal with immigration stresses in the state, parts of which were struck down two years later by the Supreme… [read post]
Today we analyze a very intriguing issue raised by a case that will be heard by the U.S. [read post]
3 Jan 2013, 9:01 pm by Vikram David Amar
Amid all the drama surrounding the fiscal cliff negotiations of the last few weeks, there was an important, sad, and in some respects troubling development in the U.S. [read post]
29 Nov 2018, 9:00 pm by Vikram David Amar
As the vote tallies for the November 2018 federal elections become finalized, one seat in the House of Representatives may not be resolved for several weeks because of an unusual lawsuit filed by Republican incumbent Bruce Poliquin (along with three Republican voters) in Maine. [read post]
7 Mar 2019, 9:01 pm by Vikram David Amar
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]
13 Jul 2017, 9:01 pm by Vikram David Amar
In what some commentators believe is one of the most important cases of the Supreme Court’s recently concluded term, Matal v. [read post]
6 Oct 2016, 9:01 pm by Vikram David Amar
Given that this week is the first in the Supreme Court’s new Term, it is hardly surprising that I will devote today’s column to a case on the Court’s docket this week. [read post]
As we noted in a column for this site two weeks ago, state religious freedom restoration acts, or RFRAs, such as the recently amended Indiana religious liberty statute, have been criticized on the ground that they are intended to permit discrimination against gays, lesbians, and same-sex couples in the provision of goods and services. [read post]
7 Feb 2019, 9:01 pm by Vikram David Amar and Jason Mazzone
For many law students, membership in and service on an academic journal is a highlight of the law school experience. [read post]
19 Feb 2019, 9:01 pm by Vikram David Amar
Public universities all over the country are grappling with the challenges that arise when members of the university community (especially so-called Registered Student Organizations or RSOs) invite contentious speakers to campus for events that threaten to generate tremendous passion on all sides of controversial issues, and that carry with them the realistic prospect of violence. [read post]
9 Feb 2017, 9:01 pm by Vikram David Amar and Michael Schaps
With many eyes this week on the Ninth Circuit litigation challenging President Trump’s Executive Order regulating entry into the U.S. by nationals of seven Middle Eastern and African countries, less noticed but potentially as important is a separate lawsuit (San Francisco v. [read post]