This morning, the court will hear oral argument in two cases. The first is South Dakota v. Wayfair, in which the justices will reconsider a ruling that limits the ability of state governments to require out-of-state online retailers to collect tax on sales to state...
Teresa Bejan discusses with us how early modern debates over religious toleration are an example of how we can disagree well....
Co-author Chance Decker What could go wrong when the well recovers two times its costs in nine months? Plenty, as we see in Dimock v. Sutherland Energy. In a Seismic Exploration and Farmout Agreement, Dimock farmed out a 15-section area in Hardeman County, Texas, to Sutherland to...
U.S. gunmakers are on the verge of getting something they’ve long wanted: a streamlined process for exporting their handguns and rifles, including AR-15 assault-style weapons that have been the focus of national debate, McClatchy Newspapers reports. The Trump administration is expected to propose that a...
Alba, 36, is a skinny woman who looks younger than she is. Her body is covered with tattoos. In the middle of one breast, a drawing represents, “los golpes de la vida” (the hard knocks of life); another on her ankle ties her to her sister...
Using the Emoulments Clause to sue the President reinforces congressional weakness, and there is a better way....
When legislators know that judicial review will save them from hard calls about the laws they vote on, no end of mischief follows....
The justices’ second argument this morning was WesternGeco v Ion Geophysical Corp., a case that requires the justices yet again to consider Section 271 of the Patent Act. Although the Patent Act generally does not apply to conduct outside the nation’s borders, that section imposes...
If anyone in the courtroom had forgotten that tomorrow is the deadline for filing federal income tax returns, Thomas Dupree, counsel for the petitioners in Wisconsin Central Ltd. v. United States, was there to alert spectators to their tax obligations. “Tax Day is almost upon...
Among the many problems that have come to light in the current cryptocurrency craze have been problems relating to celebrity endorsements for initial coin offerings (ICO). In the following guest post, John Reed Stark, President of John Reed Stark Consulting and former Chief of the...