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Author: Timothy Sandefur Here's the Cato Institute's post aboutour McDonald brief. David Kopel has some very kind words about PLF/Cato's amicus brief on The Volokh Conspiracy. Also, Josh Blackman has posted a podcast here about the brief.

Author: Timothy Sandefur Since the Progressive Era (roughly the 1920s), it’s been fashionable for law professors and judges to attack the legal principle called “substantive due process.” This theory is said to be at the root of all sorts of problems in our national history, everything from slave...

Author: Timothy Sandefur Reason magazine's Damon Root has an excellent article here from February explaining the importance of the McDonald case for entrepreneurs and other working people.

Author: Timothy Sandefur (Part 1; Part 2; Part 3; Part 4; Part 5) McDonald v. Chicago is mostly being discussed as a case involving gun rights, and that’s not surprising: the case is a challenge to Chicago ordinances that essentially make it illegal to possess firearms. ...

Author: Timothy Sandefur (Part 1; Part 2; Part 3; Part 4) The leading dissenting opinion in the Slaughter-House Cases was written by Justice Stephen J. Field. Field wasone of the most remarkable characters ever to sit on the U.S. Supreme Court...

Author: Timothy Sandefur Today, we at the Pacific Legal Foundation are filing this friend of the court brief in the crucial gun rights case now pending before the United States Supreme Court. T...

Author: Timothy Sandefur (Parts 1, 2, 3) In the Slaughter-House Cases, the Supreme Court basically erased the privileges or immunities clause from the Fourteenth Amendment...

Author: Paul J. Beard II On Monday, the California Court of Appeal (2nd District) rendered an unpublisheddecision concerning the scope of the California Coastal Commission's power. Unfortunately, it is a decision unfavorable to coastal landowners...

Author: Steven Gieseler ThisNational Review Online post by the indispensable Roger Clegg is a nice gateway to several examinations of the racial preferences hidden in the House's just-passed health care reform bill. As Clegg notes, a majority of the members of the U.S...

Author: Steven Gieseler The New York Daily News offers this update on the controversial Atlantic Yards eminent domain project, aimed at taking private property tobuild a Brooklyn arena for the New Jersey Nets.

Author: Timothy Sandefur (Part 1 is here; Part 2 is here) The Fourteenth Amendment, as we’ve seen, was intended to constitutionalize the doctrine of “paramount national citizenship” that was formulated by antislavery thinkers in the years prior to the Civil War. But ...

Author: Timothy Sandefur Among the most important cases that the U.S. Supreme Court will decide this term is a case involving the Second Amendment, called McDonald v. Chicago. In fact, it may end up being the most important case of the decade—because the case is about a lot more than gun rights. ...

Author: Damien M. Schiff Last Friday, the Center for Biological Diversity (CBD) filed two Endangered Species Act (ESA)lawsuitsconcerning two Sacramento Delta species...