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26 Jun 2015, 9:26 pm by Walter Olson
More links: Ilya Shapiro reacts at Cato (which had filed an amicus brief on the winning side urging an Equal Protection rationale, written by William Eskridge Jr. of Yale Law, Roger Pilon, Ilya Shapiro, and Trevor Burrus). [read post]
23 Jun 2015, 7:31 am by Amy Howe
  Commentary comes from Megan McArdle at Bloomberg View; Leland Beck at the Federal Regulations Advisor; Roger Pilon and Ilya Shapiro at Cato at Liberty; Trevor Burrus at Forbes; Ruthann Robson at Constitutional Law Prof Blog; Daniel Fisher at Forbes; Alan Morrison at the George Washington Law Review’s On the Docket; and Carrie Severino at National Review’s Bench Memos. [read post]
23 Jun 2015, 3:06 am by Walter Olson
Commentary: Ilya Shapiro, Roger Pilon (and earlier on the Magna Carta angle), and Trevor Burrus/Forbes (good news: Court strikes down really awful New Deal farm program. [read post]
7 Jun 2015, 9:05 pm by Walter Olson
Reed Hopper/Todd Gaziano background; Karen Bennett and John Henson, Federalist Society “Engage” on federalism angle] Advances against Ebola, cancer, blindness: “Animal Testing and Its Gifts To Humans” [Frankie Trull, WSJ/Emory Yerkes Primate Center] “Tax Increment Financing Is The New Urban Renewal” [Scott Beyer] Cato files amicus brief supporting property owners who say restrictions on prairie dog habitat exceed Congress’s powers under Interstate… [read post]
23 Apr 2015, 2:15 am by Walter Olson
Cato filed an amicus brief on behalf of the raisin-farming Horne family, as it had also done at earlier stages of the protracted case [our earlier coverage; my colleague Trevor Burrus’s write-up from March; Damon Root, Reason] And The Daily Show (“raisin outlaw”). [read post]
6 Apr 2015, 9:05 pm by Walter Olson
Department of Agriculture [Trevor Burrus, Ilya Somin, earlier] Organized campaign to disrupt Supreme Court sittings is sure to raise the concern of groups devoted to backing judicial independence. [read post]
11 Mar 2015, 9:05 pm by Walter Olson
Bill Eskridge and Steve Calabresi, Cato files probably its last same-sex marriage brief before SCOTUS [Shapiro; Timothy Kincaid, Box Turtle Bulletin] On Abercrombie (religious headscarf) case, Jon Hyman sees an edge for plaintiff at supposedly pro-business Court [Ohio Employer Law Blog, earlier] A different view on Fourth Amendment challenge to cops’ warrantless access to hotel guest registries [James Copland on Nicholas Quinn Rosenkranz brief; earlier Cato amicus] “Why the… [read post]
4 Mar 2015, 6:45 am by Walter Olson
Burwell, the ObamaCare exchange subsidy challenge, from my Cato colleagues Michael Cannon and Trevor Burrus, introduced by Caleb Brown. [read post]
27 Feb 2015, 3:22 am by Amy Howe
At Cato at Liberty, Trevor Burrus discusses the amicus brief that Cato filed in Johnson v. [read post]
29 Jan 2015, 4:48 am by Walter Olson
“Lawyer Defending Congressman’s Wife in Bigamy Case Accuses Client of Having a Second Lawyer” [Slate] “Why tort liability for data breaches won’t improve cybersecurity” [Stewart Baker] Pennsylvania passes a new gun law, and suddenly liberal standing with attorney fee shifting stops being the progressive position [Harrisburg Patriot-News] “Letting a case die like a pet rat forgotten in the garage” [Ken at Popehat on Todd Kincannon challenge to… [read post]
21 Jan 2015, 9:05 pm by Walter Olson
[Adam Steinbaugh, Eric Turkewitz, earlier on Roca Labs case] We should take up a collection to translate Voltaire into French [Reason, Huffington Post on Dieudonne case, yesterday on talk of "Fox maligned Paris" suit] Some would-be speech suppressers upset over Citizens United ruling also quite happy to drown out Justices’ speech [Mark Walsh, SCOTUSBlog] “Campaign finance censors lose debate to Reddit” [Trevor Burrus] Citizens United… [read post]
20 Jan 2015, 7:37 pm by Walter Olson
#CatoSOTU — Trevor Burrus (@TCBurrus) January 21, 2015 At @overlawyered I just RT'd tweet re: Prez's lame "pay gap" talk. [read post]
25 Dec 2014, 1:06 pm
Trevor Burrus has an interesting article at Reason that helps explain the common phenonemon of unpleasant political arguments at family gatherings over the holiday season: Politics makes us worse—and at no time more so than around the holidays. [read post]
21 Dec 2014, 9:05 pm by Walter Olson
More from the archives: Described as funniest Supreme Court amicus brief ever, and it prevailed in the Ohio campaign-law case [Ilya Shapiro, Trevor Burrus and Gabriel Latner for P.J. [read post]
8 Dec 2014, 9:05 pm by Walter Olson
Reed Hopper and Todd Gaziano, WSJ] Overcriminalization, EPA, and wetlands: the Jack Barron case [Right on Crime video] Exhaustion of state remedies on takings: “Supreme Court Should Remove Kafka-esque Burden to Vindicating Property Rights” [Ilya Shapiro and Trevor Burrus] “Proposition 65 can spell bankruptcy for many California small business owners” [Mark Snyder, Sacramento Bee] Tweet Tags: eminent domain, environment, Environmental… [read post]
18 Nov 2014, 9:05 pm by Walter Olson
Huffington Post calls for “sanctions” for press outlets that engage in “dishonest, demonizing” coverage of Muslims, immigrants, and asylum seekers [Guardian] SCOTUS should hear case re: right to engage in political advocacy without registering with government [Ilya Shapiro and Trevor Burrus, Cato; Vermont Right to Life Committee v. [read post]
17 Nov 2014, 3:35 am by Amy Howe
At Cato at Liberty, Trevor Burrus and Ilya Shapiro discuss the amicus brief that Cato filed in support of the petition in Kurtz v. [read post]
10 Nov 2014, 9:05 pm by Walter Olson
In Utah prairie dog case, federal judge finds Endangered Species Act regulation of intra-state property impacts exceeds scope of enumerated federal powers [Jonathan Adler, Evan Bernick, Jonathan Wood/PLF] Certiorari petition on whether economic considerations should enter into ESA measures on behalf of delta smelt in California [Ilya Shapiro and Trevor Burrus] “While Smart Growth as a whole is maligned by some advocates of the free market, many Smart Growth tenets are… [read post]
6 Nov 2014, 5:06 am by Amy Howe
At Cato at Liberty, Trevor Burrus and Ilya Shapiro discuss the amicus brief that Cato filed in a challenge to a Vermont law that requires an anti-abortion advocacy group to register as a political committee. [read post]