Type to search articles, cases, and authors. Press ↵ to view all results. This week we highlight cert petitions that ask the Supreme Court to consider, among other things, whether Puerto Rican news ...

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 ...

[Jack Goldsmith and I will have this article out in the Texas Law Review early next year, and I'm serializing it here. There is still plenty of time for editing, so we'd love to hear any ...

This is a guest post by Veta T. Richardson, the president and chief executive officer of the Association of Corporate Counsel, a global bar association headquartered in Washington that is dedicated ...

Type to search articles, cases, and authors. Press ↵ to view all results. The Relist Watch column examines cert petitions that the Supreme Court has “relisted” for its upcoming conference. A short ...

Roscoe Filburn owned a wheat farm in rural Montgomery County, Ohio. When he used his own farm to feed his own family, he fell under the hammer of the federal government. It was 1938, and America was ...

Many state laws apply to internet communications. Indeed, we take many such laws for granted. If you publish an online magazine or a blog that comments on people from all fifty states, you might be ...

As the Supreme Court hears arguments about the individual mandate, a complete look at the history of similar constitutional decisions. Amid rampant speculation over the fate of Obamacare in the ...

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 ...

In early December, Missouri’s Attorney General Chris Koster told a gathering of farmers that he would soon file suit against the state of California. Recent legislation passed in California limiting ...

Amy Dru Stanley is a history professor at the University of Chicago and the author of the forthcoming book “The Antislavery Ethic and the Spirit of Commerce: An American History of Human Rights.” For ...