Chief Judge Brenda Sannes dismissed the Cayuga Nation's tribal-law and civil-rights claims, but found it plausibly alleged ...
A number of U.S. states that have legalized the sale of marijuana are being sued by companies that have not entered the legal market, using the Constitution's dormant commerce clause as their basis ...
John Ream is a home whisky distiller. He points out that the Constitution grants Congress only certain enumerated (listed) ...
On September 14, the Fifth Circuit granted rehearing en banc in United States v. Cordova, a Second Amendment challenge to the lifetime felon gun ban, 18 ...
March 2 marks the anniversary of the Supreme Court’s landmark decision in Gibbons v. Ogden. Decided in 1824, Gibbons was the first major case in the still-developing jurisprudence regarding the ...
Two constitutional provisions at issue in the health-care challenges are the “necessary and proper” clause and the commerce clause. Necessary and proper clause: Congress has the power to "make all ...
Summer is upon us. Soon, the Supreme Court will release its final opinions of the term and go into recess, leaving those of us in the legal tech world to resume the activity that occupied most of ...
David Meyers, Columbia Law School Class of 2013, worked as a staffer to President George W. Bush from 2006 to 2009 and later in the US Senate. He argues that although health care reform may fit within ...