Legal Commentary

Somin on Constitutional Property Rights
Ilya Somin (George Mason) has posted Taking Property Rights Seriously? The Supreme Court and the 'Poor Relation' of Constitutional Law on SSRN. Here's the abstract: Over the last twenty-five years, the Supreme Court has expanded protection for constitutional property rights...

Gender Had Nothing to Do with Denial of Property Owners Request to Have Her Land Included in Rezoned Area
In this federal civil rights suit, alleging both a substantive due process claim and a gender-based equal protection claim, the property owner alleged that her constitutional rights were violated when her property was excluded from a new mixed-use development zone in 2003...

New Point of Law podcast page
It's here. Highlights so far: * Our popular series of conversations with Chicago's Richard Epstein, including a newly posted conversation about his new book Supreme Neglect: How to Revive Constitutional Protection for Private Property; * Lester Brickman on asbestos-suit fraud;...

Semeraro on Scrutiny for Property Rights
Steven Semeraro (Thomas Jefferson School of Law) has posted Is There a Sweet Land of Property?: The History, Symbols, Rhetoric, and Theory Behind the Ordering of the Rights to Liberty and Property in the Constitutional Lexicon on SSRN...

Scott Moss on Abortion Rights Under State Constitutional Law
Feminist Law Professor Scott Moss has a new piece available about abortion rights under state constitutional law.  The premise, that with the ever-more-conservative Supreme Court state courts are going to be the better outlet for protecting abortion rights, echoes Justice Brennan’s 1980s call for state court protection of constitutional rights in the face of the [...

Asoni on Property Rights and Economic Growth
Andrea Asoni (U. Chicago Dep't of Econ.) has posted Protection of Property Rights and Growth as Political Equilibria on SSRN. Here's the abstract: This paper presents a survey of the literature on property rights and economic growth...

Nanotechnology Law
Intellectual property laws

Privacy Protection Act 42 USC 21A
Federal Newsroom Law

Cumulative Voting
Protecting minority shareholder interests

The Civil Rights Act of 1871
Law bans discrimination enacted under color of state law

State Will Statutes
State Differences in Last Will and Testament Checklist

Discrimination
Federal laws prohibit discrimination on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, or disability

Immigration and Customs Enforcement
alleging government agencies and officials violated immigrant workers' constitutional rights.

Cowboy Hat
Lincoln County pays citizen $10,500 settlement for Constitutional Rights violations.

Popular, Inc.
BPOP

Popular, Inc.
401(k) / ERISA Stock Fraud

Rally Rights
Gettysburg Borough awards arrested protester $22,500 civil rights settlement.

Civil / Human Rights
alleging violations of basic human and civil rights.