U.S. Territories
United States v. Vaello Madero
Equal protection under the Fifth Amendment guarantees that the federal government will not discriminate against individuals without a rational basis. Not in Puerto Rico. Last Term, in United States v.…
Recent Cases
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Federal Indian Law
Ysleta del Sur Pueblo v. Texas
It is hornbook law that “standard principles of statutory interpretation do not have their usual force in cases involving Indian law.”Cohen’s Handbook of Federal Indian Law § 2.02 (Nell Jessup…
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Immigration Law
Garland v. Aleman Gonzalez
“[T]he court seems to churn along as usual, and I see my friends’ rights trampled in the process,” observed an immigrant detained at the Hudson County Correctional Facility.Mizue Aizeki, Ghita…
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Federal Jurisdiction
Patel v. Garland
Can limits on judicial review exist within a “regime of law and . . . constitutional government?”Henry M. Hart, Jr., The Power of Congress to Limit the Jurisdiction of Federal Courts: An Exercise in…
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Remedies
Cummings v. Premier Rehab Keller, P.L.L.C.
The Spending ClauseU.S. Const. art. I, § 8, cl. 1 (“The Congress shall have Power To lay and collect Taxes, Duties, Imposts and Excises, to pay the Debts and provide for the…
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Habeas Corpus
Shinn v. Ramirez
Ten years ago, the Supreme Court held in Martinez v. Ryan that ineffective assistance of postconviction counsel, in an initial-review proceeding, may establish cause for a habeas…
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Aesthetic Regulation
Burns v. Town of Palm Beach
Eleventh Circuit Rejects First Amendment Claim for Residential Architecture.
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Disability Law
C.L. v. Del Amo Hospital, Inc.
Ninth Circuit Holds that Americans with Disabilities Act Prohibits Imposing Certification Requirement on Animal Who Meets Functional Definition of "Service Dog"
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Criminal Law
State v. Belcher
Connecticut Supreme Court Invalidates Sentence that Relied on a Characterization of Defendant as a "Superpredator"
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Criminal Law
United States v. McClinton
Seventh Circuit Upholds Use of Acquitted Conduct to Triple Sentencing Exposure on a Preponderance of the Evidence.