supreme court

Los tribunales no se tiran a la pileta si no ven agua debajo

March 22, 2012 14:36

El año pasado me invitaron a un coloquio en una Universidad del conurbano y me dieron como consigna exponer este paper (PDF) de Corinna Barrett Lain. Los cinco grandes del contramayoritarianismo El trabajo, cuestionable metodológicamente en algún punto, pero sí que...

Panel Examines Obama Administration National Security Policy

March 22, 2012 14:09

Congress, not the courts, needs to play a more active role in shaping national security law, a former top U.S. Justice Department official said during a panel discussion about the Obama administration's authority to combat terrorism. Participating on a Federalist...Congress, not the courts, needs...

Rhetoric - Oddball Cases and Slaughtered Hogs

Andrew Trask
March 22, 2012 10:20

 At the DePaul symposium a few weeks back, Professor Suja Thomas argued that the Supreme Court should not take on "oddball" cases, because the outlying facts make for decisions that are too sweeping. (She's made this argument before about Iqbal and Twombly, so you don't...

Supreme Court's Decision in Sackett v. EPA May Assist Construction Projects

Matthew DeVries
March 22, 2012 10:01

In June of this year, one of my partners Greg Young and I will be speaking at the AGC Environmental Conference in Washington, DC.  Our panel discussion will focus on the dangerous intersections between construction law and environmental law.  One of those crossroads is the applicability...

Mayo Collaborative Services v. Prometheus Laboratories -- What the Supreme Court Said

March 22, 2012 06:14

By Kevin E. Noonan -- In a decision he has waited six years to write (having dissented from the Court's decision not to decide similar issues in Laboratory Corp. v. Metabolite Labs., Inc. in 2006), Justice Breyer (and a unanimous Court) overturned the Federal Circuit's decision that diagnostic...