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.
First Circuit Holds that Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 4(k)(1)(a)'s Territorial Constraints Apply to Only the Initial Service of Process.
Fourth Circuit Rejects Jurisdiction to Enforce NLRB Consent Order.
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…
Fifty-one years ago, in Bivens v. Six Unknown Named Agents of Federal Bureau of Narcotics, the Supreme Court announced a cause of action for money damages against…
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…
Is racism in gun regulation reason to look to the Supreme Court to expand Second Amendment rights? While discussion of race and guns recurs across the briefs in New York…
For a significant portion of American history, gun laws bore the ugly taint of racism.On the racist history of gun laws, see generally Clayton E. Cramer, The Racist Roots of…
The full text of this Article may be found by clicking on the PDF link to the left. Fourth Amendment law is in flux. The Supreme Court recently established, in…
In Presumed Guilty: How the Supreme Court Empowered the Police and Subverted Civil Rights, Dean Erwin Chemerinsky issues an indictment of the Supreme Court, charging that institution with facilitating undue…
Introduction In their welcome new article, Justin Driver and Emma Kaufman offer a provocative take on American prison law: that it is “fundamentally incoherent.”Justin Driver & Emma Kaufman, The Incoherence…