…to ask. The California Supreme Court decides what the law is. That’s what we decide, right? We don’t prescribe law for the future. We — we decide what the law…

…a Tender in Payment of Debts; pass any Bill of Attainder, ex post facto Law, or Law impairing the Obligation of Contracts, or grant any Title of Nobility. — Article…

…of a government policy or law that has the effect of discriminating against some class of people. Under the Court’s longtime equal-protection jurisprudence, the law is more tolerant of certain…

NEW YORK (AP) — A judge on Wednesday struck down a portion of a law giving the government wide powers to regulate the detention, interrogation and prosecution of suspected terrorists,…

…example–and then for any law or governmental policy, unless the law or policy serves a “compelling governmental interest”. In which event the means chosen to accomplish the compelling governmental interest…

…arguments, I exchanged emails with Harvard law professor Richard Fallon, whose law review article about what are known as collateral challenges (civil lawsuits raising the issue) to the constitutionality of…

…after all, have a law degree from Yale, and practiced corporate law in Arkansas. It also, of course, was straightforward to her that although most people do know that, she…

…discuss antitrust law and also forced-arbitration clauses. Antitrust law is the more important of the two, and truly implicates the very workings of the larger economy. In a post several…

…Finding the cause is more likely to prevent recurrence. While scientists seek to identify causes; the law (here, law enforcement and the criminal courts in concert), representative society, seeks someone…

…Stevens Professor of Law at Northwestern University The Supreme Court is supposed to decide questions based on the law, not public opinion. And you can hear Justice Roberts pontificating on this…