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# 2011–2012 

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 2011–2012 Supreme Court term, specifically the most important and far-reaching cases of the year, plus cases coming up. Now in its eleventh 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 

#### [The Non-Political Branch? ](/supreme-court-review/2011-2012/non-political-branch)

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

##### Introduction 

#### [Introduction ](/supreme-court-review/2011-2012/introduction)

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

##### Annual B. Kenneth Simon Lecture 

#### [Has Technology Killed the Fourth Amendment? ](/supreme-court-review/2011-2012/has-technology-killed-fourth-amendment)

By Hon. Alex Kozinski and Eric S. Nguyen 

##### Obamacare and Enumerated Powers 

#### [*NFIB v. Sebelius* and the Triumph of Fig-Leaf Federalism](/supreme-court-review/2011-2012/nfib-v-sebelius-triumph-fig-leaf-federalism)

By David B. Rivkin Jr., Lee A. Casey, and [Andrew M. Grossman](https://www.cato.org/people/andrew-grossman) 

#### [Enforcing Limits on the Affordable Care Act’s Mandated Medicaid Expansion: The Coercion Principle and the Clear Notice Rule ](/supreme-court-review/2011-2012/enforcing-limits-affordable-care-acts-mandated-medicaid-expansion)

By James E. Blumstein 

##### Increasing Protections for Property Rights 

#### [*Sackett v. EPA*: Compliance Orders and the Right of Judicial Review](/supreme-court-review/2011-2012/sackett-v-epa-compliance-orders-right-judicial-review)

By Damien M. Schiff 

#### [Wetlands, Property Rights, and the Due Process Deficit in Environmental Law ](/supreme-court-review/2011-2012/wetlands-property-rights-due-process-deficit-environmental-law)

By Jonathan H. Adler 

#### [*PPL Montana v. Montana*: A Unanimous Smackdown of a State Land Grab](/supreme-court-review/2011-2012/ppl-montana-v-montana-unanimous-smackdown-state-land-grab)

By James L. Huffman 

##### Frontiers of Federalism 

#### [*Arizona v. United States*: The Unitary Executive’s Enforcement Discretion as a Limit on Federalism](/supreme-court-review/2011-2012/arizona-v-united-states-unitary-executives-enforcement-discretion)

By Roderick M. Hills Jr. 

##### Cutting-Edge Criminal Procedure 

#### [Escaping Fourth Amendment Doctrine After *Jones*: Physics, Law, and Privacy Protection ](/supreme-court-review/2011-2012/escaping-fourth-amendment-doctrine-after-jones-physics-law-privacy)

By [Jim Harper](https://www.cato.org/people/jim-harper) 

#### [The Present and Future Regulation of Plea Bargaining: A Look at *Missouri v. Frye* and *Lafler v. Cooper*](/supreme-court-review/2011-2012/present-future-regulation-plea-bargaining-look-missouri-v-frye-lafler)

By Wesley M. Oliver 

##### A Panoply of First Amendment Issues 

#### [FCC, Fox, and That Other F‑Word ](/supreme-court-review/2011-2012/fcc-fox-other-f-word)

By John P. Elwood, Jeremy C. Marwell, and Eric A. White 

#### [*Hosanna-Tabor*, Religious Freedom, and the Constitutional Structure](/supreme-court-review/2011-2012/hosanna-tabor-religious-freedom-constitutional-structure)

By John M. Robinson 

#### [Casting an Overdue Skeptical Eye: *Knox v. SEIU*](/supreme-court-review/2011-2012/casting-overdue-skeptical-eye-knox-v-seiu)

By W. James Young 

#### [*Golan* and *Prometheus* as Misfit First Amendment Cases?](/supreme-court-review/2011-2012/golan-prometheus-misfit-first-amendment-cases)

By Elizabeth Townsend Gard 

##### The Year to Come 

#### [Looking Ahead: October Term 2012 ](/supreme-court-review/2011-2012/looking-ahead-october-term-2012)

By Kannon K. Shanmugam and James M. McDonald 

##### Contributors 

#### [Contributors ](/supreme-court-review/2011-2012/contributors)

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