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Cheers To Central Hudson: How Traditional Intermediate Scrutiny Helps Keep Independent Craft Beer Viable, Daniel J. Croxall May 2018

Cheers To Central Hudson: How Traditional Intermediate Scrutiny Helps Keep Independent Craft Beer Viable, Daniel J. Croxall

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Independent craft breweries contributed approximately $68 billion to the national economy last year. However, an arcane regulatory scheme governs the alcohol industry in general and the craft beer industry specifically, posing both obstacles and benefits to independent craft brewers. This Essay examines regulations that arguably infringe on free speech: namely, commercial speech regulations that prohibit alcohol manufacturers from purchasing advertising space from retailers. Such regulations were enacted to prohibit undue influence and anticompetitive behavior stemming from vertical and horizontal integration in the alcohol market. Although these regulations are necessary to prevent global corporate brewers from dominating the craft beer market …


The Intratextual Independent “Legislature” And The Elections Clause, Michael T. Morley Jan 2015

The Intratextual Independent “Legislature” And The Elections Clause, Michael T. Morley

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The Intratextual Independent “Legislature” And The Elections Clause, Michael T. Morley Jan 2015

The Intratextual Independent “Legislature” And The Elections Clause, Michael T. Morley

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Ties That Bind? The Questionable Consent Justification For Hosanna-Tabor, Jessie Hill Nov 2014

Ties That Bind? The Questionable Consent Justification For Hosanna-Tabor, Jessie Hill

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Is Resistance To Foreign Law Rooted In Racism?, Sheldon Bernard Lyke Aug 2014

Is Resistance To Foreign Law Rooted In Racism?, Sheldon Bernard Lyke

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Mini-Domas As Political Process Failures: The Case For Heightened Scrutiny Of State Anti-Gay Marriage Amendments, Steve Sanders Jun 2014

Mini-Domas As Political Process Failures: The Case For Heightened Scrutiny Of State Anti-Gay Marriage Amendments, Steve Sanders

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Party-Based Corruption And Mccutcheon V. Fec, Michael S. Kang Mar 2014

Party-Based Corruption And Mccutcheon V. Fec, Michael S. Kang

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Silence Is Golden: Moments Of Silence, Legislative Prayers, And The Establishment Clause, Eric Segall Mar 2014

Silence Is Golden: Moments Of Silence, Legislative Prayers, And The Establishment Clause, Eric Segall

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The Curious Case Of Legislative Prayer: Town Of Greece V. Galloway, Ian Bartrum Feb 2014

The Curious Case Of Legislative Prayer: Town Of Greece V. Galloway, Ian Bartrum

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Constitutional Purpose And The Anti-Corruption Principle, Zephyr Teachout Feb 2014

Constitutional Purpose And The Anti-Corruption Principle, Zephyr Teachout

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Dispatches From The Trenches Of America's Great Gun Trust Wars, Lee-Ford Tritt Nov 2013

Dispatches From The Trenches Of America's Great Gun Trust Wars, Lee-Ford Tritt

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Why Scalia Should Have Voted To Overturn Doma, Andrew Koppelman Nov 2013

Why Scalia Should Have Voted To Overturn Doma, Andrew Koppelman

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A Visual Guide To United States V. Windsor: Doctrinal Origins Of Justice Kennedy's Majority Opinion, Colin Starger Nov 2013

A Visual Guide To United States V. Windsor: Doctrinal Origins Of Justice Kennedy's Majority Opinion, Colin Starger

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The Moonscape Of Tax Equality: Windsor And Beyond, Anthony C. Infanti Oct 2013

The Moonscape Of Tax Equality: Windsor And Beyond, Anthony C. Infanti

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Doma's Ghost And Copyright Reversionary Interests, Brad A. Greenberg Oct 2013

Doma's Ghost And Copyright Reversionary Interests, Brad A. Greenberg

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The Dog Days Of Fourth Amendment Jurisprudence, Kit Kinports Aug 2013

The Dog Days Of Fourth Amendment Jurisprudence, Kit Kinports

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The Definite Article: The D.C. Circuit's Redefinition Of Recess Appointments, Jeff Vandam Jul 2013

The Definite Article: The D.C. Circuit's Redefinition Of Recess Appointments, Jeff Vandam

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Chief Justice Roberts's Individual Mandate: The Lawless Medicine Of Nfib V. Sebelius, Gregory P. Magarian Jul 2013

Chief Justice Roberts's Individual Mandate: The Lawless Medicine Of Nfib V. Sebelius, Gregory P. Magarian

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Catch Twentywu The Oral Argument In Fisher V. University Of Texas And The Obfuscation Of Critical Mass, Sheldon Bernard Lyke Apr 2013

Catch Twentywu The Oral Argument In Fisher V. University Of Texas And The Obfuscation Of Critical Mass, Sheldon Bernard Lyke

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The Original Public Meaning Of The Foreign Emoluments Clause: A Reply To Professor Zephyr Teachout, Seth Barrett Tillman Apr 2013

The Original Public Meaning Of The Foreign Emoluments Clause: A Reply To Professor Zephyr Teachout, Seth Barrett Tillman

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The Contraception Mandate, Caroline Mala Corbin Nov 2012

The Contraception Mandate, Caroline Mala Corbin

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A Tort Statute, With Aliens And Pirates, Eugene Kontorovich Aug 2012

A Tort Statute, With Aliens And Pirates, Eugene Kontorovich

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State Law Holocaust-Era Art Claims And Federal Executive Power, Jennifer Anglim Kreder May 2011

State Law Holocaust-Era Art Claims And Federal Executive Power, Jennifer Anglim Kreder

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Can Popular Constitutionalism Survive The Tea Party Movement?, Jared A. Goldstein Apr 2011

Can Popular Constitutionalism Survive The Tea Party Movement?, Jared A. Goldstein

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The sudden emergence and prominence of the Tea Party movement raises important questions about the role of the Constitution in popular politics. More than any political movement in recent memory, the Tea Party movement is centrally focused on the meaning of the Constitution. Tea Party supporters believe that the nation is facing a crisis because it has abandoned the Constitution, and they seek to restore the government to what they believe are its foundational principles.


The Tea Party, The Constitution, And The Repeal Amendment, Randy Barnett Apr 2011

The Tea Party, The Constitution, And The Repeal Amendment, Randy Barnett

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If We Have An Imperfect Constitution, Should We Settle For Remarkably Timid Reform? Reflections Generated By The General Phenomenon Of “Tea Party Constitutionalism” And Randy Barnett’S Particular Proposal For A “Repeal Amendment”, Sanford Levinson Mar 2011

If We Have An Imperfect Constitution, Should We Settle For Remarkably Timid Reform? Reflections Generated By The General Phenomenon Of “Tea Party Constitutionalism” And Randy Barnett’S Particular Proposal For A “Repeal Amendment”, Sanford Levinson

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There is, of course, no single template for “Tea Party Constitutionalism,” given that it is a large, somewhat inchoate movement that inevitably contains different, often conflicting, strains. As someone from Texas, I am tempted to focus on some of the more extreme ideas associated with various politicians wishing to take advantage of the anger projected by many Tea Partiers toward the national government. Thus at least two candidates for the 2010 Republican nomination for the Texas governorship (including the ultimately successful incumbent, Rick Perry) endorsed or at least flirted with nineteenth century ideas of “nullification” and even secession as a …


The Constitutional Politics Of The Tea Party Movement, Richard Albert Mar 2011

The Constitutional Politics Of The Tea Party Movement, Richard Albert

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The Tea Party movement and its constitutional vision for the United States is perhaps the hottest topic in American public law today. The rising tide of popular support for the Tea Party movement has transformed what was once cast aside as a fleeting faction into a formidable force in American politics—one that could augur significant consequences for the contours of American constitutional law in the years ahead.


Scribble Scrabble, The Second Amendment, And Historical Guideposts: A Short Reply To Lawrence Rosenthal And Joyce Lee Malcolm, Patrick J. Charles Feb 2011

Scribble Scrabble, The Second Amendment, And Historical Guideposts: A Short Reply To Lawrence Rosenthal And Joyce Lee Malcolm, Patrick J. Charles

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In a recent article Professors Lawrence Rosenthal and Joyce Lee Malcolm provided an intriguing debate over the standard of scrutiny that should be applied to restrictions on the Second Amendment in the wake of McDonald v. City of Chicago. This Article sets forth to illuminate two aspects of that debate. The first is Professor Rosenthal’s concern on the constitutionality of open-carry or conceal-carry prohibitions. He inaccurately claims that the founders left insufficient historical evidence to support such prohibitions. Thus this Article addresses those concerns through the use of “historical guideposts.” The second aspect this Article sets forth to address …


So How Did We Get Into This Mess? Observations On The Legitimacy Of Citizens United, Alexander Polikoff Feb 2011

So How Did We Get Into This Mess? Observations On The Legitimacy Of Citizens United, Alexander Polikoff

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How did the American body politic allow business corporations to threaten members of Congress by saying, credibly, “Do what we want or we’ll bury you!”?

On January 21, 2010, the Supreme Court’s 5-4 decision in Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission interpreted the U.S. Constitution’s First Amendment to permit corporations to spend unlimited amounts of money to support or oppose their chosen candidates. "[A] lobbyist," said the front page of the next day’s New York Times, "can now tell any elected official that [if you vote wrong,] my company, labor union or interest group will spend unlimited sums explicitly …


Rethinking The Order Of Battle In Constitutional Torts: A Reply To John Jeffries, Nancy Leong Nov 2010

Rethinking The Order Of Battle In Constitutional Torts: A Reply To John Jeffries, Nancy Leong

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The Supreme Court’s decision in Pearson v. Callahan ended an eight-year experiment in the adjudication of qualified immunity claims. That experiment began with Saucier v. Katz, in which the Court held that lower courts mustdecide whether a government officer violated a plaintiff’s constitutional rights before addressing the question of whether the government officer was entitled to immunity. The Court’s rationale for requiring lower courts to first address the merits was the need to clarify constitutional law for the benefit of both government actors (who could then better conform their behavior to constitutional standards) and future plaintiffs (who could then …