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Month: December 2018

SCOTUS to Take Up Rare 21st Amendment Case in January 2019

SCOTUS to Take Up Rare 21st Amendment Case

When they return to the bench in January, the justices of the U.S. Supreme Court will consider their first case involving the 21st Amendment in more than a decade. Tennessee Wine and Spirits Retailers Association v. Clayton Byrd involves the co...

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Granholm v Heald Defines Relationship Between 21st Amendment and the Dormant Commerce Clause

Granholm v Heald Defines Relationship Between 21st Amendment and the Dormant Commerce Clause

In Granholm v Heald, 544 U.S. 460 (2005), the U.S. Supreme Court held that state laws that allow in-state wineries to directly ship alcohol to consumers, but prohibit out-of-state wineries to do the same, run afoul of the Dormant Commerce Clause in ...

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Will Supreme Court Abolish Deference to “reasonable interpretation” in Kisor v Wilkie?

Will Supreme Court Abolish Deference to “reasonable interpretation” in Kisor v Wilkie?

The U.S. Supreme Court recently agreed to hear Kisor v Wilkie, which has the potential to be a blockbuster in the area of administrative law. The question before the Court is whether it should overrule Auer v. Robbins, which hold that courts mu...

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Auer v Robbins Established Deference to Agency’s Interpretation of Its Own Regulations

Auer v Robbins Established Deference to Agency’s Interpretation of Its Own Regulations

In Auer v Robbins, 519 U.S. 452 (1997), the U.S. Supreme Court established the standard that courts should apply when reviewing an executive agency’s interpretation of the regulations it established under federal legislation. In a unanimous decis...

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How a Frog Habitat in Louisiana May Begin to Curb Administrative Agency Power in Weyerhaeuser Company v United States Fish and Wildlife Service

How a Frog Habitat in Louisiana May Begin to Curb Administrative Agency Power in Weyerhaeuser Company v United States Fish and Wildlife Service

The U.S. Supreme Court has sent Weyerhaeuser Company v. United States Fish and Wildlife Service, 586 U. S. ____ (2018), back to the lower court.  It remains to be seen whether this seemingly simple case of statutory interpretation may also signal th...

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SCOTUS Sides With Employee in Reverse Discrimination Case
by DONALD SCARINCI on July 2, 2025

In Ames v. Ohio Department of Youth Services, 605 U.S. ____ (2025), the U.S. Supreme Court held tha...

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Supreme Court Rejects Moment of Threat Doctrine in Deadly Force Case
by DONALD SCARINCI on June 30, 2025

In Barnes v. Felix, 605 U.S. ____ (2025), the U.S. Supreme Court rejected the Fifth Circuit Court o...

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SCOTUS Holds Wire Fraud Statute Doesn’t Require Proof Victim Suffered Economic Loss
by DONALD SCARINCI on June 24, 2025

In Kousisis v. United States, 605 U.S. ____ (2025), the U.S. Supreme Court held that a defendant wh...

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The Amendments

  • Amendment1
    • Establishment ClauseFree Exercise Clause
    • Freedom of Speech
    • Freedoms of Press
    • Freedom of Assembly, and Petitition
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  • Amendment2
    • The Right to Bear Arms
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    • Unreasonable Searches and Seizures
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  • Amendment5
    • Due Process
    • Eminent Domain
    • Rights of Criminal Defendants
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Preamble to the Bill of Rights

Congress of the United States begun and held at the City of New-York, on Wednesday the fourth of March, one thousand seven hundred and eighty nine.

THE Conventions of a number of the States, having at the time of their adopting the Constitution, expressed a desire, in order to prevent misconstruction or abuse of its powers, that further declaratory and restrictive clauses should be added: And as extending the ground of public confidence in the Government, will best ensure the beneficent ends of its institution.

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