The decision in the Phillip Morris case came down today, with the Court vacating the award of damages in a 5-4 decision. I'm extremely skeptical of this whole project of finding limits to punitive damages in the due process clause, although today's case adds a...
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Antonin Scalia has done us the favor of explaining the equal protection theory behind the Supreme Court's decision in Bush v. Gore. (Which is handy, since the per curiam opinion.
Since it's back in the news again, it may be worth exploring what the pro-Plessy memo written by William Rehnquist actually means. As I briefly alluded to in my previous.
Susie at Suburban Guerilla notes this Alan Dershowitz post about William Rehnquist, which (among other things, some of which are better substantiated than others) discusses the infamous memo Rehnquist wrote when he was clerking for Justice Robert Jackson, in which he claimed that Plessy v....