…Four years before Gregg, the Supreme Court had brought the death penalty to a halt in Furman v. Georgia. It found that statutes which left it to “the [complete] discretion…

…fall within state personal injury law, not within federal law. What was different about the statute that Sanders voted for was that it removed this area civil product liability from…

…somewhat but at least the part I know best has become radically anarcho-libertarian, pro-gun, pro-business (the word “regulation” is almost a cuss-word in most of Texas), anti-taxes/anti-government and not very…

…would revisit another federal statute that has been there for a long time,” Deal said. “It came as a result of bad facts, and we have a saying that bad…

…This prohibition is in election-law statutes, not in criminal-sentencing statutes, which shouldn’t, but could, make a difference. I hope challenges to those state laws begin soon. Greenhouse points in her…

…four other justices to interpret the ACA as containing an antidisestablishmentarian clause that bars insurance-premium subsidies under that statute in states that have allowed the federal government to set up…

…fees and conflicts of interest. The rule will take effect next April. Paul Krugman writes today that Paul Ryan includes repealing that rule in his “anti-poverty plan.” Lewis Carroll ghostwrites…

…Hippocratic Medicine (AHM), the plaintiffs (an anti-abortion health professional organization), argued that the FDA acted unlawfully when it first approved mifepristone in 2000, and more recently in increasing access to…

…previous anti-Obamacare lawsuits, Braidwood Management is not an existential threat to the entire law. Should the Supreme Court buy the plaintiffs’ arguments in this case, however, that would give health…

…and what ‘free markets’ means. That viewpoint led to a downplaying of anti-trust law, a relaxation of labor laws and a general deregulatory approach to business . The result was…