1/7/04 Boring administrative stuff, how Con Law is
different, about Justice OConnor
1/8/04 The Second Amendment, the machine gun case, a
matter of interpretation
1/12/04 The Commerce Clause United States v. Lopez, back
to the Second Amendment, two types of constitutional questions, the power
question, the rights question, state versus federal powers, consequences of Lopez
1/13/04 Breyers
dissent in Lopez, Wickard v. Filburn, the aggregation
principle, a pause, the rational basis idea
1/14/04 A bit of a history lesson, Schecter Poultry, Carter Coal, Jones &
Laughlin, Wickard v. Filburn
1/15/04 United States v. Morrison, the
constitutional question of Morrison, Foleys take
1/20/04 United States v. McCoy, the
constitutional issue, the dissent
1/21/04 More on McCoy the jurisdictional hook
1/22/04 Facial versus as-applied challenges, Raich v.
Ashcroft
1/26/04 The Tenth Amendment, Reno v. Condon, Hypotheticals on the
Tenth Amendment
1/27/04 Tenth Amendment flip-flops, Printz v.
United States
1/28/04 The terrorism hypothetical and more on Printz
1/29/04 South Dakota v. Dole, the relatedness
prong, OConnors dissent
2/2/04 An aside about deference a common thread, United
States v. Sabri
2/3/04 More on Sabri, facial challenges
2/4/04 Donuts and challenges, alternatives to § 666
2/5/04 Sabri distinguished from Dole,
some thoughts on the briefs
2/9/04 Pharmaceutical Research
and Mfrs. of America v. Walsh
2/10/04 More on preemption
2/11/04 Dormant Commerce Clause
2/12/04 Hillside Dairy, Inc. v. Lyons, More
on
2/16/04 Kassel v. Consolidated
Freightways Corp. of Delaware
2/17/04 Camps
Newfound/Owatonna, Inc. v.
2/18/04 Conservation
Force, Inc. v. Manning, Heald v.
Engler
2/19/04 Finishing up Heald v. Engler, Doran v.
Massachusetts Turnpike Authority, Alliant
Energy Corp. v. Bie
2/24/04 Justice Jackson in
2/25/04 Ex parte
Quirin
2/26/04 An outline of Padilla, Ex parte Milligan
3/1/04 Executive privilege and Watergate United
States v. Nixon
3/2/04 In re
Cheney
3/3/04 More on Cheney,
the political question doctrine [accidentally deleted all my notes]
3/4/04 More on the political question doctrine
3/8/04 The Equal Protection Clause, levels of scrutiny,
under-inclusiveness versus over-inclusiveness
3/9/04
3/11/04 A buncha stuff
3/15/04 Gender discrimination United States v. Virginia
3/16/04 More on
the VMI case, Nguyen v. Immigration and
Naturalization Service
3/29/04
3/30/04
More on
3/31/04
More on Grutter
4/1/04
Gratz v. Bollinger
4/5/04
Lochner v.
4/6/04
More on Griswold
4/7/04
Stenberg v.
4/8/04
More on Glucksberg
4/12/04
4/13/04
More on
4/15/04
Lofton v. Secretary of the Department
of Children and Family Services
4/19/04
The state action doctrine
4/20/04
The difference
between the Thirteenth Amendment and the Fourteenth Amendment, Section 5 of the
Fourteenth Amendment
4/21/04
United States v. Morrison Fourteenth Amendment
issues, Nevada Department of Human
Resources v. Hibbs
4/22/04
More on § 5, the
briefs in Padilla
v. Rumsfeld
4/26/04
More on the Padilla briefs