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# 2008–2009 

Edited by [Ilya Shapiro](https://www.cato.org/people/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.

##### Foreword 

#### [Facial v. As-Applied Challenges: Does It Matter? ](/supreme-court-review/2008-2009/facial-v-applied-challenges-does-it-matter)

By [Roger Pilon](https://www.cato.org/people/roger-pilon) 

##### Introduction 

#### [Introduction ](/supreme-court-review/2008-2009/introduction)

By [Ilya Shapiro](https://www.cato.org/people/ilya-shapiro) 

##### Annual B. Kenneth Simon Lecture 

#### [Is the Constitution Libertarian? ](/supreme-court-review/2008-2009/constitution-libertarian)

By [Randy E. Barnett](https://www.cato.org/people/randy-barnett) 

##### Voting Rights and Equal Protection 

#### [The Future of the Voting Rights Act after *Bartlett* and *NAMUDNO*](/supreme-court-review/2008-2009/future-voting-rights-act-after-bartlett-namudno)

By Roger Clegg 

#### [The War between Disparate Impact and Equal Protection ](/supreme-court-review/2008-2009/war-between-disparate-impact-equal-protection)

By Kenneth L. Marcus 

##### Business Regulation 

#### [Into the Pre-emption Thicket: *Wyeth v. Levine*](/supreme-court-review/2008-2009/pre-emption-thicket-wyeth-v-levine)

By [Roger Pilon](https://www.cato.org/people/roger-pilon) 

#### [*linkLine*’s Institutional Suspicions](/supreme-court-review/2008-2009/linklines-institutional-suspicions)

By Daniel A. Crane 

##### Criminal Law 

#### [Hydraulic Pressures and Slight Deviations ](/supreme-court-review/2008-2009/hydraulic-pressures-slight-deviations)

By [Erik Luna](https://www.cato.org/people/erik-luna) 

#### [(Un)Reasonableness and the Roberts Court: The Fourth Amendment in Flux ](/supreme-court-review/2008-2009/unreasonableness-roberts-court-fourth-amendment-flux)

By Michael Edmund O’Neill 

#### [Using Its Sixth Sense: The Roberts Court Revamps the Rights of the Accused ](/supreme-court-review/2008-2009/using-its-sixth-sense-roberts-court-revamps-rights-accused)

By Mark Chenoweth 

##### Speech and Elections 

#### [*Pleasant Grove City v. Summum*: The Supreme Court Finds a Public Display of the Ten Commandments to Be Permissible Government Speech](/supreme-court-review/2008-2009/pleasant-grove-city-v-summum-supreme-court-finds-public-display-ten)

By Patrick M. Garry 

#### [*FCC v. Fox Television Stations, Inc.*: Awaiting the Next Act](/supreme-court-review/2008-2009/fcc-v-fox-television-stations-inc-awaiting-next-act)

By [Robert Corn-Revere](https://www.cato.org/people/robert-corn-revere) 

#### [The *Caperton* Caper and the Kennedy Conundrum ](/supreme-court-review/2008-2009/caperton-caper-kennedy-conundrum)

By Stephen M. Hoersting and Bradley A. Smith 

##### Next Year 

#### [Looking Ahead: October Term 2009 ](/supreme-court-review/2008-2009/looking-ahead-october-term-2009)

By Jan Crawford Greenburg 

##### Contributors 

#### [Contributors ](/supreme-court-review/2008-2009/contributors)

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