Is the Philadelphia Wage Tax Unconstitutional? And If It Is, What Can and Should the City Do?
(Photo: Ethan Schwartz/Flickr) Philadelphia, the fifth largest city in the United States with a population over 1.5 million, has a… Continue reading →
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Victory Is Defeat: The Ironic Consequence of Justice Scalia’s Death for Fisher v. University of Texas
(Photo: Pavel Ivanov / Flickr) The recent death of Justice Antonin Scalia on February 13, 2016, leaves the U.S. Supreme… Continue reading →
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Perverse Incentives, Cost‐Benefit Imbalances, and the Infield Fly Rule
(Photo: Joel Dinda/Flickr) Judge Andrew J. Guilford and Joel Mallord begin their manifesto against the Infield Fly Rule with an… Continue reading →
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Unguided Missiles: Why the Supreme Court Should Prohibit Police Officers from Shooting at Moving Vehicles
(Photo: Robert Kuykendall/Flickr) In just an eighteen month period, the Supreme Court decided two cases involving the use of deadly… Continue reading →
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Abortion Rights and the Largeness of the Fraction ⅙
The most important abortion rights Supreme Court case in decades may hinge on the answer to a seemingly trivial question—is… Continue reading →
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Concord with Which Other Families?: Marriage Equality, Family Demographics, and Race
Lesbian and gay parents figured prominently in two decades of litigation concerning marriage equality, and Obergefell v. Hodges was no… Continue reading →
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Depicting Minority Petitioners' Lives in Appellate Opinions
Mellouli v. Lynch, decided in June 2015, evaluated whether a state conviction for possession of drug paraphernalia used to conceal… Continue reading →
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Writing About Nonpersons
Professor Garrett’s article on the constitutional standing of corporations employs the heuristic of “effective” litigation to unpack the lack of… Continue reading →
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Causation and Harm in a Multicomponent World
On September 17, 2015, the Federal Circuit issued another decision in the epic Apple v. Samsung smartphone war. This was… Continue reading →
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A National Study of Access to Counsel in Immigration Court
Although immigrants have a right to be represented by counsel in immigration court, it has long been the case that… Continue reading →