Type to search articles, cases, and authors. Press ↵ to view all results. This week we highlight cert petitions that ask the Supreme Court to consider, among other things, whether Puerto Rican news ...

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 ...

Last week in United States v. Hemani, the Supreme Court unanimously ruled that the government may not strip people of their Second Amendment rights or prosecute them for illegal gun possession simply ...

[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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Disagreeing with successive rulings on the issue by a federal district court, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit has imposed a preliminary injunction on a Kentucky law that directs the ...

March 12, 2026 - The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals kicked off 2026 by deepening one of the most consequential fault lines in US cannabis law. Its January 2 decision in Peridot Tree WA, Inc. v.

Amy Dru Stanley is a history professor at the University of Chicago and the author of the forthcoming book “The Antislavery Ethic and the Spirit of Commerce: An American History of Human Rights.” For ...

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 ...