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Judicial Deference And Political Power In Fourteenth Amendment And Dormant Commerce Clause Cases, F. Italia Patti Mar 2019

Judicial Deference And Political Power In Fourteenth Amendment And Dormant Commerce Clause Cases, F. Italia Patti

San Diego Law Review

The Supreme Court lacks a coherent approach to deciding how much to defer to state legislatures when reviewing allegedly unconstitutional legislation. The Court grants very little deference to state legislatures in dormant Commerce Clause cases but significant deference to state legislatures in Fourteenth Amendment cases. The Court has never acknowledged this divergence, let alone justified it. Scholars have also failed to note this divergence or explore whether it can be justified. By ignoring this divergence, the Court and scholars have ignored a situation that exacerbates existing power imbalances and fails to recognize a more promising approach to judicial deference.

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Pavlovich V. Superior Court: Spinning A World Wide Web For California Personal Jurisdiction* Jan 2002

Pavlovich V. Superior Court: Spinning A World Wide Web For California Personal Jurisdiction*

San Diego Law Review

This Casenote questions the Pavlovich court’s holding. More

specifically, it argues that the exercise of personal jurisdiction in this case violates the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution and that the court erred when it failed to quash service of process. Further, this Casenote posits that exercise of jurisdiction here not only eviscerates the mandates of International Shoe Co. v. Washington and its progeny, but also extends California jurisdiction to cover Internet users everywhere.