Reason In July 2018, four blue states—New York, Connecticut, Maryland, and New Jersey—filed a lawsuit challenging the constitutionality of the cap on federal tax deductions for state and local taxes included …
From Tilsen v. Benson, decided last month by Connecticut Superior Court Judge Daniel J. Klau, but just posted on Westlaw: The plaintiff seeks to enforce a Jewish marriage contract, known …
Despite a host of legal restrictions on firearms and knives, not to mention a society that increasingly resembles a panopticon in the thoroughness of the surveillance to which it’s subjected, …
From Doe v. Pomona College, decided Thursday: A college student was successful in obtaining a writ overturning his college’s finding that he had engaged in sexual misconduct against another student. …
The discussion in this post is excerpted from Andrew Leipold, Is Mass Incarceration Inevitable? 56 American Criminal Law Review 1579 (2019). We’ve all read the headlines. America incarcerates the most …
[This post is co-authored with Seth Barrett Tillman] Since January 2017, litigants have alleged that President Trump is violating the Foreign and Domestic Emoluments Clauses. We have filed several amicus …
Eating meat is bad for the climate—or at least that was one of the main conclusions highlighted in a flood of news reports based on the U.N. Intergovernmental Panel on …
The United Kingdom’s Labour Party has committed itself to abolishing private schools if it wins the next election. A measure approved at the party’s latest annual conference says “the ongoing …
I’m delighted to report that Prof. Andrew Leipold (Illinois) will be guest-blogging this week about his new American Criminal Law Review article, Is Mass Incarceration Inevitable? The claim that American …
Professor Mila Sohoni is the author of a string of significant articles on administrative law, and two of her forthcoming articles are about national injunctions. One of these is The Lost …