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The Constitution's Forgotten Cover Letter: An Essay On The New Federalism And The Original Understanding, Daniel A. Farber
The Constitution's Forgotten Cover Letter: An Essay On The New Federalism And The Original Understanding, Daniel A. Farber
Daniel A Farber
At the end of the summer of 1787, the Philadelphia Convention issued two documents. One was the Constitution itself. The other document, now almost forgotten even by constitutional historians, was an official letter to Congress, signed by George Washington on behalf of the Convention. Congress responded with a resolution that the Constitution and "letter accompanying the same" be sent to the state legislatures for submission to conventions in each state.
The Washington letter lacks the detail and depth of some other evidence of original intent. Being a cover letter, it was designed only to introduce the accompanying document rather than …
Constitutional Challenges And Regulatory Opportunities For State Climate Policy Innovation, Felix Mormann
Constitutional Challenges And Regulatory Opportunities For State Climate Policy Innovation, Felix Mormann
Felix Mormann
This Article explores constitutional limits and regulatory openings for innovative state policies to mitigate climate change by promoting climate-friendly, renewable energy. In the absence of a comprehensive federal policy approach to climate change and clean energy, more and more states are stepping in to fill the policy void. Already, nearly thirty states have adopted renewable portfolio standards that create markets for solar, wind, and other clean electricity. To help populate these markets, a few pioneering states have recently started using feed-in tariffs that offer eligible generators above-market rates for their clean, renewable power.
But renewable portfolio standards, feed-in tariffs, and …
Full Faith And Credit, Choice Of Laws, And Extraterritorial Regulation Of Corporate Transactions, Gregory S. Sergienko
Full Faith And Credit, Choice Of Laws, And Extraterritorial Regulation Of Corporate Transactions, Gregory S. Sergienko
Greg Sergienko
In a federal system in which each state may enact laws providing for the chartering and governance of corporations and in which corporations can and do conduct business in more than one state, several states may claim an interest in regulating the conduct of a given corporation. The enactment of state laws that are intended to restrict hostile corporate takeovers and that purport to extend to foreign corporations is one example of this phenomenon. "Typically, any of a number of jurisdictional links might trigger the application of such an anti-takeover statute: the target's being incorporated in the state, its having …
7 Things You Need To Know About: Constitutional Law, Corey A. Ciocchetti
7 Things You Need To Know About: Constitutional Law, Corey A. Ciocchetti
Corey A Ciocchetti
These slides cover the 7 most important things you need to know about Constitutional Law - especially as it relates to business. Topics covered include the Supremacy Clause & preemption, Commercial Speech & the First Amendment, the Commerce Clause, the Bill of Rights and Constitutional History.
Federal Regulation Of Collective Bargaining By State And Local Employees: Constitutional Alternatives, Ronald C. Brown
Federal Regulation Of Collective Bargaining By State And Local Employees: Constitutional Alternatives, Ronald C. Brown
Ronald Brown
No abstract provided.
Turning The Endangered Species Act Inside Out, Jud Mathews
Turning The Endangered Species Act Inside Out, Jud Mathews
Jud Mathews
Within a week, both the Fifth and D.C. Circuits upheld the takings prohibitions of the Endangered Species Act (ESA) of 1973, as applied to species found only in single states, against Commerce Clause challenges. Both cases reach the same result, but the legal analysis used to get there could hardly be more different. In GDF Realty, the Fifth Circuit found the requisite "substantial impact" on commerce by treating the species themselves as commodities and aggregating the economic impact of all endangered species "takings". The D.C. Circuit, by contrast, held in Rancho Viejo that the true object of ESA regulation is …
King V. Burwell And The Rise Of The Administrative State, Ronald D. Rotunda
King V. Burwell And The Rise Of The Administrative State, Ronald D. Rotunda
Ronald D. Rotunda
The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA) is a complex law totaling nearly a thousand pages in length. The litigation now before the Supreme Court in King v. Burwell presents, on the surface, a simple issue of statutory interpretation. However, that surface has a very thin veneer. If the Court allows administrators carte blanche to change the very words of a statute, we will have come a long way towards governance by bureaucrats. Over the years, Congress has delegated many of its powers, but it has never delegated the power to raise taxes or spend tax subsidies in ways …
The Environmental Commerce Clause, Christine A. Klein
The Environmental Commerce Clause, Christine A. Klein
Christine A. Klein
This Article studies every commerce clause decision of the modem Supreme Court that involves the scope of governmental authority to regulate the use of natural resources. These decisions comprise what I will call the environmental commerce clause -- the Court's interpretation of the limits mandated by the commerce clause upon federal and state legislation protecting natural resources. Overall, the Court has been limiting the scope of the affirmative commerce clause while simultaneously expanding the reach of the dormant commerce clause. As a result, both federal and state efforts to protect the natural environment have been rendered constitutionally suspect. This study …
Testimony Before The Committee On Energy And Commerce, Subcommittee On Environment And Economics, U.S. House Of Representatives, Hearing On Constitutional Considerations: States Vs. Federal Environmental Policy Implementation July 11, 2014, Rena I. Steinzor
Rena I. Steinzor
No abstract provided.
Taxpayer Standing And Daimlerchrysler V. Cuno: Where Do We Go From Here?, Kristin E. Hickman, Donald B. Tobin
Taxpayer Standing And Daimlerchrysler V. Cuno: Where Do We Go From Here?, Kristin E. Hickman, Donald B. Tobin
Donald B. Tobin
In granting certiorari in the case of Daimler-Chrysler Corp. v. Cuno, the Supreme Court asked the parties to brief "whether respondents have standing to challenge Ohio's investment tax credit." This report applies modern standing doctrine to the Cuno case and concludes that the Cuno plaintiffs do no have standing to raise their claims in federal court. Moreover, the authors write, allowing the Cuno plaintiffs' case to be resolved in federal court would open the federal court system to a wide range of taxpayer challenges better left to the political branches of government. Nevertheless, they recognize that there may be other …
Lochner, Liquor, And Longshoremen: A Puzzle In Progressive Era Federalism, Barry Cushman
Lochner, Liquor, And Longshoremen: A Puzzle In Progressive Era Federalism, Barry Cushman
Barry Cushman
In 1890, the Supreme Court shocked and thrilled the civilized world with the announcement that dry states could not prohibit the sale of liquor shipped in from outside the state. So long as the out-of-state goods remained in their "original packages," the Court held they retained their character as interstate commerce subject only to federal regulation. The consequences for the cause of local sobriety were, predictably, catastrophic. The proliferation in temperance territory of "original package saloons," at which one could purchase liquor free from the superintendence of local liquor authorities, was appalling to dry eyes. Members of Congress immediately proposed …
Chief Justice Roberts' Individual Mandate: The Lawless Medicine Of Nfib V. Sebelius, Gregory Magarian
Chief Justice Roberts' Individual Mandate: The Lawless Medicine Of Nfib V. Sebelius, Gregory Magarian
Gregory P. Magarian
After the U.S. Supreme Court in National Federation of Independent Business v. Sebelius held nearly all of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act constitutional, praise rained down on Chief Justice John Roberts. The Chief Justice’s lead opinion broke with his usual conservative allies on the Court by upholding the Act’s individual mandate under the Taxing Clause. Numerous academic and popular commentators have lauded the Chief Justice for his political courage and institutional pragmatism. In this essay, Professor Magarian challenges the heroic narrative surrounding the Chief Justice’s opinion. The essay contends that the opinion is, in two distinct senses, fundamentally …
Teaching The Affordable Care Act (Obamacare) Case, Corey A. Ciocchetti
Teaching The Affordable Care Act (Obamacare) Case, Corey A. Ciocchetti
Corey A Ciocchetti
The ObamaCare case is one of the most important Supreme Court decisions in modern time. Even though it contains detailed constitutional law issues and is nearly 200 pages long, the case can be taught to undergraduates. These slides help tell the story and can be used to teach the case as well as constitutional law issues such as: (1) enumerated powers, (2) preemption, (3) federalism and more.
National Federation Of Independent Business V. Sebelius, Brannon P. Denning, Glenn H. Reynolds
National Federation Of Independent Business V. Sebelius, Brannon P. Denning, Glenn H. Reynolds
Brannon P. Denning
Using our now-famous "Five Takes" format, Glenn Reynolds and I analyze NFIB v. Sebelius from five different perspectives: (1) Sebelius as Marbury; (2) Sebelius as Bakke; (3) Sebelius and the "legitimating" power of judicial review; (4) Sebelius as a Thayerian decision; and (5) Sebelius as part of some long game of Chief Justice Roberts'.
Escaping The Sporhase Maze: Protecting State Waters Within The Commerce Clause, Mark S. Davis, Michael Pappas
Escaping The Sporhase Maze: Protecting State Waters Within The Commerce Clause, Mark S. Davis, Michael Pappas
Michael Pappas
Eastern states, though they have enjoyed a history of relatively abundant water, increasingly face the need to conserve water, particularly to protect water-dependent ecosystems. At the same time, growing water demands, climate change, and an emerging water-oriented economy have intensified pressure for interstate water transfers. Thus, even traditionally wet states are seeking to protect or secure their water supplies. However, restrictions on water sales and exports risk running afoul of the Dormant Commerce Clause. This Article offers guidance for states, partciularly eastern states concerned with maintaining and improving water-dependent ecosystems, in seeking to restrict water exports while staying within the …
The Best Of Both Worlds: Applying Federal Commerce And State Police Powers To Reduce Prescription Drug Abuse, Stacey L. Sklaver
The Best Of Both Worlds: Applying Federal Commerce And State Police Powers To Reduce Prescription Drug Abuse, Stacey L. Sklaver
Stacey L. Sklaver
This article addresses the prescription drug abuse epidemic in the United States. In particular, it highlights that prescribers, as the gatekeepers of controlled substances, often lack the necessary education and training to properly prescribe such medications and to spot signs of abuse. This deficiency leads to patient overdoses and death, and resultant prescriber exposure to both civil and criminal liability.
Some states require controlled substance prescribers to obtain education on safe prescribing and abuse prevention methods, but many do not, yielding the need for a federal solution. The solution must address patient health, safety, and welfare under the purview of …
Constitutional Newspeak: Learning To Love The Affordable Care Act Decision, A. Christopher Bryant
Constitutional Newspeak: Learning To Love The Affordable Care Act Decision, A. Christopher Bryant
Aaron Christopher Bryant
Constitutional Newspeak: Learning to Love the Affordable Care Act Decision In his classic dystopian novel, 1984, George Orwell imagines a world in which language is regularly contorted to mean its opposite – as in the waging of war by the Ministry of Peace and infliction of torture by the Ministry of Love. A core claim of Orwell’s was that such abuse of language – which in his novel he labeled “Newspeak” -- would ultimately channel thought. Whatever the merits of this claim as a theory of linguistics, constitutional developments too recent to be called history demonstrate that as a practical …
Perverted Liberty: How The Supreme Court’S Limitation Of The Commerce Power Undermines Our Civil-Rights Laws And Makes Us Less Free, Chad Deveaux
Chad DeVeaux
I argue that the Supreme Court’s limitation of Congress’s commerce power in National Federation of Independent Business v. Sebelius undermines the edifice of federal civil-rights laws. NFIB narrowly upheld the Affordable Care Act’s individual mandate as a valid exercise of Congress’s tax power. But the Chief Justice and four dissenting Justices concluded that the mandate exceeds Congress’s commerce power. In their view, the Commerce Clause empowers the regulation of “existing commercial activity,” but does not permit Congress to “create commerce” by compelling one to engage in unwanted transactions. Because the individual mandate conscripts people to engage in involuntary transactions these …
The Lawlessness Of Sebelius, Gregory Magarian
The Lawlessness Of Sebelius, Gregory Magarian
Gregory P. Magarian
After the U.S. Supreme Court in National Federation of Independent Business v. Sebelius held nearly all of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act constitutional, praise rained down on Chief Justice John Roberts. The Chief Justice’s lead opinion broke with his usual conservative allies on the Court by upholding the Act’s individual mandate as a valid enactment under the Taxing Clause. Numerous commentators have lauded the Chief Justice for his courage and pragmatism. In this essay, Professor Magarian challenges the heroic narrative surrounding the Chief Justice’s opinion. He contends that the opinion is, in two senses, fundamentally lawless. First, the …
The U.S. Constitution And The Commerce Clause Power, Dean A. Cantalupo Esq.
The U.S. Constitution And The Commerce Clause Power, Dean A. Cantalupo Esq.
Dean A Cantalupo Esq.
The U.S. Constituion and the Commerce Clause Power
Individual Mandate Is Constitutional, Leslie Henry, Maxwell Stearns
Individual Mandate Is Constitutional, Leslie Henry, Maxwell Stearns
Maxwell L. Stearns
Supreme Court should find that key aspect of Obama's signature law is a legitimate exercise of Commerce Clause power.
The Ancient Mariner Of Constitutional Law: The Declining Role Of Navigability, Robert W. Adler
The Ancient Mariner Of Constitutional Law: The Declining Role Of Navigability, Robert W. Adler
Robert W. Adler
For the first time in three decades, in its 2011-2012 Term the U.S. Supreme Court decided a case involving “navigability for title,” in which the issue of whether a river or other body of water is navigable determines whether a state has owned the beds and banks of the waterway since statehood. PPL Montana, LLC v. State, __ S. Ct. __, No. 10-218, 2012 WL 555205 (2012). The Court held that, in determining navigability for title, courts must focus on discrete segments of the river rather than the river as a whole, and that evidence of current navigability can only …
Individual Mandate Is Constitutional, Leslie Henry, Maxwell Stearns
Individual Mandate Is Constitutional, Leslie Henry, Maxwell Stearns
Leslie Meltzer Henry
Supreme Court should find that key aspect of Obama's signature law is a legitimate exercise of Commerce Clause power.
Dormancy Versus Innovation: A New Generation Dormant Commerce Clause, Sam Kalen Mr.
Dormancy Versus Innovation: A New Generation Dormant Commerce Clause, Sam Kalen Mr.
Sam Kalen Mr.
The vitality of the dormant commerce clause is becoming increasingly suspect. Modern academic commentary questions the Supreme Court’s rationale for this negative aspect of the Commerce Clause. Yet the emphasis of the scholarship overlooks how our society has changed dramatically since the Court developed its present analysis, and it is the analysis perhaps more than the rationale that is bankrupt. The analysis the Court employs under the clause is cabining innovate state and local programs, such as responses to climate change. The article, therefore, traces the dynamic nature of the dormant commerce clause, as well as how its modern formulation …
The Constitutionality Of The Patient Protection And Affordable Care Act In The Courts Of Appeals, Mel Cousins
The Constitutionality Of The Patient Protection And Affordable Care Act In The Courts Of Appeals, Mel Cousins
Mel Cousins
Having undergone an extensive process of political discussion and debate, the ACA (properly the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act) is now under intensive legal challenge with over 20 different cases from both states and organizations and individuals having been initiated. The challengers argue that the Act lacks a constitutional basis and/or infringes on their constitutional rights. These cases involve a fascinating intersection of legal, political and policy issues and, regardless of the outcome, will have important implications for the future direction of US health care policy. There have now been four decisions of the courts of appeal on the …
Is There An Efficient Antitrust Approach To Health Care?, Kathryn Ciano
Is There An Efficient Antitrust Approach To Health Care?, Kathryn Ciano
Kathryn Ciano
As American states and the federal government wrestle to find a solution to health care reform, some regulators are looking towards antitrust laws in the international marketplace to govern domestic health care policy. Antitrust principles dictate that antitrust authorities must intervene only when pressures become so great as to interfere with the very operations of the market. Pharmaceutical and health care markets rely on free trade and competitive global cooperation, so there is no efficient antitrust approach to health care.
Constitutionality Of The Patient Protection And Affordable Care Act Under The Commerce Clause And The Necessary And Proper Clause, Wilson Huhn
Wilson R. Huhn
The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act is a comprehensive federal statute that attempts to extend health insurance coverage to tens of millions of Americans and to expand health insurance coverage by eliminating exclusions for preexisting conditions, increase medical loss ratios, abolish annual and lifetime limits, and other reforms. A necessary provision of this law (the individual mandate) requires most individuals to maintain health insurance coverage. The individual mandate has been challenged in a number of lawsuits on the ground that Congress lacks the power under the Constitution to require individuals to purchase health insurance. The power of Congress to …
Discrimination And Business Regulation (The Supreme Court And Local Government Law: The 1999-2000 Term), Eileen Kaufman
Discrimination And Business Regulation (The Supreme Court And Local Government Law: The 1999-2000 Term), Eileen Kaufman
Eileen Kaufman
No abstract provided.
The Patient Protection And Affordable Care Act And Constitutional Challenges, Mel Cousins
The Patient Protection And Affordable Care Act And Constitutional Challenges, Mel Cousins
Mel Cousins
Having undergone an extensive process of political discussion and debate, the Health Care Reform Act (properly the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act) is now under intensive legal challenge with at least 20 different cases from both states and organizations and individuals currently under way. Although this litigation is at an early stage, there has already been considerable academic (and other) interest with a number of websites tracking the development of the litigation and providing links to the considerable commentary which has already been developed (albeit much of it inevitably speculative in nature). There have now been five substantive rulings …
Lawyers, Guns, And Money: Why The Tiahrt Amendment’S Ban On The Admissibility Of Atf Trace Data In State Court Actions Violates The Commerce Clause And The Tenth Amendment, Colin Miller
Colin Miller
The Tiahrt Amendment provides in relevant part that ATF trace data "shall be inadmissible in evidence, and shall not be used, relied on, or disclosed in any manner, nor shall testimony or other evidence be permitted based on the data, in a civil action in any State (including the District of Columbia) or Federal court..." This Amendment has hamstrung cities and localities which, in an effort to combat crime with civil litigation, have brought actions against the gun industry sounding in public nuisance, with trace data being crucial to the success of such actions. Because this Amendment regulates state as …