Tyson v. Sabine
Fifth Circuit Holds that Sexual Assault Perpetrated by Police Is Fourteenth Amendment Violation, Not Fourth Amendment Seizure.
Vol. 136 No. 3
Recent Things
These student-written pieces comment on any recent legal development — hence “Recent Things” — including decisions by courts other than the U.S. Supreme Court, statutes, regulations, books, or any similar contribution to legal practice or scholarship. These comments are typically eight pages and are usually written by second-year students.
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.
Vol. 136 No. 3
Nekrilov v. City of Jersey City
Third Circuit Rejects Investors' Takings Clause Challenge Based on Municipal Officials' Public Statements About a Regulatory Regime.
Vol. 136 No. 3
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.
Vol. 136 No. 3
Johnson v. Wisconsin Elections Commission
Wisconsin Supreme Court Adopts New Election Maps that Change Existing Districts Least, Regardless of Partisan Bias.
Vol. 136 No. 3
United States v. Johnlouis
Fifth Circuit Delivers a New Law Enforcement Functions Test for Identifying Government Actors.
Vol. 136 No. 3
NLRB v. Constellium Rolled Products Ravenswood, LLC
Fourth Circuit Rejects Jurisdiction to Enforce NLRB Consent Order.
Vol. 136 No. 3
PAK v. Attorney General
Vol. 136 No. 2
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...
Notwithstanding the Right to Strike: A Canadian Province Defies the Constitution — And Workers Strike Back
The “Notwithstanding Clause,” the common name for section 33 of Canada’s Charter of Rights and Freedoms—the country’s constitutional bill of rights—authorizes time-bound legislation that...
Torres v. Texas Department of Public Safety
Vol. 136 No. 1
In the words of Justice Kagan, the Supreme Court’s state “sovereign immunity decisions have not followed a straight line.” The Court’s first foray into...