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19 May 2022, 8:40 am by Howard Bashman
“Ten Thoughts on Illinois’s Unique Process for Filling State Supreme Court Vacancies”: Law professors Vikram David Amar and Jason Mazzone have this essay online at Justia’s Verdict. [read post]
18 May 2022, 9:01 pm by Vikram David Amar and Jason Mazzone
Last week a good friend of the law school where both of us teach (the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign), Illinois Supreme Court Justice Rita Garman, announced she was stepping down effective July 7, 2022. [read post]
10 May 2022, 9:01 pm by Vikram David Amar and Jason Mazzone
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]
28 Apr 2022, 9:01 pm by Vikram David Amar and Jason Mazzone
Perhaps this could make the TJ case more like the Harvard dispute, which one of us (Amar) has argued could rightly be understood not necessarily as highlighting a problem with affirmative action generally, but instead with affirmative action plans that seek to burden Asians more than Whites. [read post]
22 Nov 2021, 9:01 pm by Vikram David Amar and Jason Mazzone
About three weeks ago, on November 5, the federal Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA), invoking its statutory authority, issued an Emergency Temporary Standard (ETS) that provides that every U.S. employer with 100 or more employees must “develop, implement, and enforce a mandatory COVID-19 vaccination policy” for workers, and require any workers who remain unvaccinated to undergo weekly testing and wear a face mask. [read post]
16 Jul 2021, 8:00 am by Howard Bashman
“New Texas Abortion Statute Raises Cutting-Edge Questions Not Just About Abortion but About the Relationship Between State and Federal Courts”: Law professors Vikram David Amar and Jason Mazzone have this essay online at Justia’s Verdict. [read post]
14 Jul 2021, 9:01 pm by Vikram David Amar and Jason Mazzone
Last month, Texas adopted an anti-abortion statute that is noteworthy not so much for how it tries to deter abortions but for how it tries to deter legal challenges to the statute itself. [read post]
21 Jun 2021, 9:01 pm by Vikram David Amar and Jason Mazzone
Two weeks ago the Republican Minority Leaders in both Houses of the Illinois legislature (known as the General Assembly), in their official capacity and as individual registered voters, brought suit in federal district court in McConchie v. [read post]
4 Mar 2021, 9:01 pm by Vikram David Amar and Jason Mazzone
(Justices Alito and Gorsuch in their dissent cast the issue more broadly, to include not just the Electors Clause of Article II, but also the Elections Clause of Article I, which contains similar language with regard to congressional elections as distinguished from presidential elector selection.)One of us (Vikram Amar) has elsewhere argued that the Republican Party’s theory here—that the federal Constitution frees state legislatures from state judicial review to… [read post]
11 Feb 2021, 9:01 pm by Vikram David Amar
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 Feb 2021, 9:00 pm by Dean Falvy
It would be led by David Schoen, a defense attorney from Georgia, and Bruce Castor, a former district attorney from Pennsylvania. [read post]
3 Feb 2021, 9:01 pm by Vikram David Amar and Jason Mazzone
The Senate has announced that when it convenes later this month for the second impeachment trial of former President Donald J. [read post]