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# 2014–2015 

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 2014–2015 Supreme Court term, specifically the most important and far-reaching cases of the year, plus cases coming up. Now in its fourteenth 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 

#### [Roberts’ Rules: Deference Trumps Law ](/supreme-court-review/2014-2015/roberts-rules-deference-trumps-law)

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

##### Introduction 

#### [Introduction ](/supreme-court-review/2014-2015/introduction)

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

##### Annual Kenneth B. Simon Lecture 

#### [Minimalism and Its Limits ](/supreme-court-review/2014-2015/minimalism-its-limits)

By Hon. Diane Sykes 

##### Obamacare Round 3: Breaking the Law to Save It 

#### [*King v. Burwell* and the Triumph of Selective Contextualism](/supreme-court-review/2014-2015/king-v-burwell-triumph-selective-contextualism)

By Jonathan H. Adler and [Michael F. Cannon](https://www.cato.org/people/michael-f-cannon) 

#### [Mistaken Paradigms and Interpreting Dreams: Some Reflections on *King v. Burwell*](/supreme-court-review/2014-2015/mistaken-paradigms-interpreting-dreams-some-reflections-king-v)

By James E. Blumstein 

##### Protecting Civil Rights 

#### [The Marriage Equality Cases and Constitutional Theory ](/supreme-court-review/2014-2015/marriage-equality-cases-constitutional-theory)

By William N. Eskridge Jr. 

#### [A Hijab and a Hunch: Abercrombie and the Limits of Religious Accommodation ](/supreme-court-review/2014-2015/hijab-hunch-abercrombie-limits-religious-accommodation)

By [Walter Olson](https://www.cato.org/people/walter-olson) 

#### [Silver Linings Playbook: “Disparate Impact” and the Fair Housing Act ](/supreme-court-review/2014-2015/silver-linings-playbook-disparate-impact-fair-housing-act)

By Roger Clegg 

##### The Right to Earn an Honest Living 

#### [Freedom of Competition and the Rhetoric of Federalism: *North Carolina Board of Dental Examiners v. FTC*](/supreme-court-review/2014-2015/freedom-competition-rhetoric-federalism-north-carolina-board-dental)

By [Timothy Sandefur](https://www.cato.org/people/timothy-sandefur) 

##### New Frontiers in Criminal Law 

#### [Hook, Line &amp; Sinker: Supreme Court Holds (Barely!) that Sarbanes-Oxley’s Anti-Shredding Statute Doesn’t Apply to Fish ](/supreme-court-review/2014-2015/hook-line-sinker-supreme-court-holds-barely-sarbanes-oxleys-anti)

By John Malcolm 

#### [The Right “to Be Secure”: *Los Angeles v. Patel*](/supreme-court-review/2014-2015/right-be-secure-los-angeles-v-patel)

By Luke M. Milligan 

##### Limiting the Fourth Branch 

#### [*Michigan v. EPA*: A Mandate for Agencies to Consider Costs](/supreme-court-review/2014-2015/michigan-v-epa-mandate-agencies-consider-costs)

By [Andrew M. Grossman](https://www.cato.org/people/andrew-grossman) 

#### [The Raisin Case ](/supreme-court-review/2014-2015/raisin-case)

By Michael W. McConnell 

#### [*Perez v. Mortgage Bankers*: Heralding the Demise of *Auer* Deference?](/supreme-court-review/2014-2015/perez-v-mortgage-bankers-heralding-demise-auer-deference)

By Adam J. White 

#### [The Shadow Debate over Private Nondelegation in *DOT v. Association of American Railroads*](/supreme-court-review/2014-2015/shadow-debate-over-private-nondelegation-dot-v-association-american)

By Alexander Volokh 

##### The Year to Come 

#### [Looking Ahead: October Term 2015 ](/supreme-court-review/2014-2015/looking-ahead-october-term-2015)

By John P. Elwood and Conor P. McEvily 

##### Contributors 

#### [Contributors ](/supreme-court-review/2014-2015/contributors)

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