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Cato Supreme Court Review, 2008-2009

Edited by Ilya Shapiro

In this annual review from the Cato Institute, Ilya Shapiro and leading legal scholars analyze the 2008-2009 Supreme Court term, specifically the most important and far-reaching cases of the year, plus cases coming up. Now in its eighth edition, the Review is the first scholarly journal to appear after the term's end and the only one grounded in the nation's first principles, liberty, and limited government.

Supreme Court Review

Contents (All files are in Adobe Acrobat PDF format.)

Foreword

Roger Pilon; "Facial v. As-Applied Challenges: Does It Matter?" (12 pp., 69 KB)

Introduction

Ilya Shapiro; "Introduction" (8 pp., 59 KB)

Annual B. Kenneth Simon Lecture

Randy E. Barnett; "Is the Constitution Libertarian?" (26 pp., 123 KB)

Voting Rights and Equal Protection

Roger Clegg; "The Future of the Voting Rights Act after Bartlett and NAMUDNO" (18 pp., 97 KB)

Kenneth L. Marcus; "The War between Disparate Impact and Equal Protection" (32 pp., 148 KB)

Business Regulation

Roger Pilon; "Into the Pre-emption Thicket: Wyeth v. Levine" (26 pp., 124 KB)

Daniel A. Crane; "linkLine's Institutional Suspicions" (22 pp., 121 KB)

Criminal Law

Erik Luna; "Hydraulic Pressures and Slight Deviations" (50 pp., 217 KB)

Michael Edmund O'Neill; "(Un)Reasonableness and the Roberts Court: The Fourth Amendment in Flux" (0 pp., 174 KB)

Mark Chenoweth; "Using Its Sixth Sense: The Roberts Court Revamps the Rights of the Accused" (48 pp., 213 KB)

Speech and Elections

Patrick M. Garry; "Pleasant Grove City v. Summum: The Supreme Court Finds a Public Display of the Ten Commandments to Be Permissible Government Speech" (24 pp., 123 KB)

Robert Corn-Revere; "FCC v. Fox Television Stations, Inc.: Awaiting the Next Act" (24 pp., 124 KB)

Stephen M. Hoersting and Bradley A. Smith; "The Caperton Caper and the Kennedy Conundrum" (28 pp., 146 KB)

Next Year

Jan Crawford Greenburg; "Looking Ahead: October Term 2009" (22 pp., 111 KB)