Harvard Law Review
Amidst the whirl of commentary about how the U.S. Supreme Court has become increasingly textualist and what precise shape modern textualism should take, the Court’s continued reliance on one decidedly…
The Armed Career Criminal Act (ACCA) imposes lengthy sentences on those who possess firearms after committing violent felonies on three or more different “occasions.” Last…
Scholars have described the Supreme Court’s 1984 decision Chevron U.S.A. Inc. v. Natural Resources Defense Council, Inc. as an “accidental landmark,”Thomas W. Merrill, The Story of Chevron:…
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…
Sixth Circuit Holds that Severed Provisions Cannot be Applied to Violations Predating Severance
Ninth Circuit Holds that Certain Chinese State-Owned Companies Are Not Foreign "Instrumentalities" and Thus Lack Immunity Under the FSIA from Criminal Prosecution
Fifth Circuit Holds That Section 1983 Does Not Apply to Local Judges
D.C. Circuit Articulates Particularized “Foreseeable Harm” Standard For Certain Withholdings
Eleventh Circuit Creates Circuit Split by Holding that the FIRST STEP Act Does Not Grant Courts the Authority to Determine What Circumstances Justify Compassionate Release
In 1920, seventeen-year-old Salvatore Eugene Scalia arrived in the United States from Italy with his family.Joan Biskupic, American Original: The Life and Constitution of Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia 13…