Fourth Amendment
Tyson v. Sabine
Fifth Circuit Holds that Sexual Assault Perpetrated by Police Is Fourteenth Amendment Violation, Not Fourth Amendment Seizure.
Recent Cases
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Standing
Drazen v. Pinto
Eleventh Circuit Holds that Absent Class Members Must Satisfy Article III Standing at the Class Certification Phase for Settlement-Only Class Action.
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Takings Clause
Nekrilov v. City of Jersey City
Third Circuit Rejects Investors' Takings Clause Challenge Based on Municipal Officials' Public Statements About a Regulatory Regime.
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Personal Jurisdiction
Waters v. Day & Zimmermann NPS, Inc.
First Circuit Holds that Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 4(k)(1)(a)'s Territorial Constraints Apply to Only the Initial Service of Process.
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Democracy
Johnson v. Wisconsin Elections Commission
Wisconsin Supreme Court Adopts New Election Maps that Change Existing Districts Least, Regardless of Partisan Bias.
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Criminal Law
United States v. Johnlouis
Fifth Circuit Delivers a New Law Enforcement Functions Test for Identifying Government Actors.
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Article III
NLRB v. Constellium Rolled Products Ravenswood, LLC
Fourth Circuit Rejects Jurisdiction to Enforce NLRB Consent Order.
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Abortion
PAK v. Attorney General
As access to abortion is a rapidly developing question in the United States’s legal landscape, courts across the world are revisiting criminalization and constitutional protections or constraints on this specific…
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Eleventh Amendment
Torres v. Texas Department of Public Safety
In the words of Justice Kagan, the Supreme Court’s state “sovereign immunity decisions have not followed a straight line.”Torres v. Tex. Dep’t of Pub. Safety, 142 S. Ct. 2455, 2469…
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RLUIPA
Ramirez v. Collier
Incarcerated people depend on the state for access to their most basic needs, including the ability to practice religion. Over time, Congress has added protections for their religious exercise, first…