The Contract Clause: Reawakened in the Age of COVID-19
Vol. 136 No. 8
Article I, section 10, clause 1 of the Constitution introduces a litany of limitations on state power. States cannot, inter alia, “grant Letters of...
42 U.S.C. § 1983
Judicial Immunity at the (Second) Founding: A New Perspective on § 1983
Vol. 136 No. 5
Immunity doctrines have received increased scrutiny in recent years, both in academic scholarship and in the popular press. While the overwhelming majority of the...
Vega v. Tekoh
Vol. 136 No. 1
Miranda v. Arizona is perhaps the best-known criminal justice decision in American history, bringing the privilege against self-incrimination “to the informal proceedings in the...
T.O. v. Fort Bend Independent School District
Fifth Circuit Declines to Extend Fourth Amendment to Bar Corporal Punishment in Public Schools
Vol. 135 No. 7
Freedom from Religion Foundation, Inc. v. Mack
Fifth Circuit Holds That Section 1983 Does Not Apply to Local Judges
Vol. 135 No. 5
Tekoh v. County of Los Angeles
Ninth Circuit Denies Rehearing En Banc to Consider Whether a Miranda Violation Can Give Rise to a Claim under § 1983
Vol. 135 No. 5
Swain v. Junior
Eleventh Circuit Holds that a Florida Jail Was Not Deliberately Indifferent to the Spread of COVID-19.
Vol. 134 No. 7
Agnew v. Government of the District of Columbia
D.C. Circuit Holds that D.C. Statute Is Not Unconstitutionally Vague.
Vol. 133 No. 5
Abstention in the Time of Ferguson
Vol. 131 No. 8
Of the roughly 450,000 Americans who are in local jails awaiting trial, many are there because they are poor. When people with economic resources...
Palakovic v. Wetzel
Third Circuit Holds Parents of Mentally Ill Young Man Held in Solitary Confinement Stated Claims of Cruel and Unusual Punishment.
Vol. 131 No. 5