Type to search articles, cases, and authors. Press ↵ to view all results. The Relist Watch column examines cert petitions that the Supreme Court has “relisted” for its upcoming conference. A short ...

[Jack Goldsmith and I will have this article out in the Texas Law Review early next year, and I'm serializing it here. There is still plenty of time for editing, so we'd love to hear any ...

March 2 marks the anniversary of the Supreme Court’s landmark decision in Gibbons v. Ogden. Decided in 1824, Gibbons was the first major case in the still-developing jurisprudence regarding the ...

Federalism — the allocation between federal and state governments — is at the heart of American constitutional law. In a dispute related to the constitutionality of California state regulations ...

In a March commentary, we appraised a legal challenge filed by two companies involved in the mining and delivery of coal against several Washington state officials for their role in blocking approval ...

“If the government can do this, what, what else can it not do?” asked Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia this week in arguments on the constitutionality of the requirement that nearly all Americans ...

A number of U.S. states that have legalized the sale of marijuana are being sued by companies that have not entered the legal market, using the Constitution's dormant commerce clause as their basis ...

As the Supreme Court hears arguments about the individual mandate, a complete look at the history of similar constitutional decisions. Amid rampant speculation over the fate of Obamacare in the ...

Many state laws apply to internet communications. Indeed, we take many such laws for granted. If you publish an online magazine or a blog that comments on people from all fifty states, you might be ...

A pair of energy-producing states may face ideological challenges in their quest for a high court review of Washington state’s blockade against the last major coal export project on the West Coast. A ...

Computer crime law is mostly a federal law field. Because computer crimes cross state and national boundaries, the federal government ends up doing most of the investigations and prosecutions. The ...