Vol. 129 No. 1 After a series of catastrophic corporate and accounting frauds in the early 2000s, Congress passed the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002. The Act included a...
Vol. 129 No. 1 Federal law has criminalized communicating threats in interstate commerce since 1939. Even though this prohibition is in tension with principles of free speech, the...
Vol. 129 No. 1 The Armed Career Criminal Act of 1984 (ACCA) imposes a mandatory minimum fifteen-year prison sentence on predicate felons who have three prior convictions for...
Vol. 129 No. 1 In 2008, in Baze v. Rees, the Supreme Court considered an Eighth Amendment challenge to the use of a particular three-drug lethal injection protocol....
Vol. 129 No. 1 The distinction between “facial” and “as-applied” challenges is a notoriously confusing area of law. Judicial review of Fourth Amendment reasonableness claims, however, has generally...