Solemnly fretting that lawsuits by government employees challenging their bosses might disrupt official activity by, among other ploys, an emotional appeal to a jury to think of the employee’s “little ...

The United States Constitution provides that “[n]o state shall … pass any … Law impairing the Obligation of Contracts.” (U.S. Constit., Art. I, § 10 ...

After four years of contested litigation, the D.C. Circuit cursorily resolves the meaning of the Emoluments Clauses without any acknowledgment of contrary positions. I won't regale you with the ...

Supreme Court’s Chiles Decision Resulted from Decades of Legal Ground-Tilling Audio By Carbonatix This week, the en banc Sixth Circuit will hear Bormuth v. County of Jackson. The case illustrates how ...

Type to search articles, cases, and authors. Press ↵ to view all results. Given the Court’s frequent attention to the enforceability of arbitration clauses, it is surprising that the Court has not ...

Disagreeing with successive rulings on the issue by a federal district court, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit has imposed a preliminary injunction on a Kentucky law that directs the ...

Brett Johnson, Tracy Olson, Nicholas Wood P.L.L.C. Economic incentive agreements are tools used by city, county, and state actors to facilitate public goals with the help of private actors. States ...

Chief Justice Roberts was entirely correct in holding that the Affordable Care Act's individual mandate could be sustained as a tax. But in describing why that was the case, Roberts also revealed a ...

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