Cato Supreme Court Review 2008 2009

Published every September in celebration of Constitution Day, the Cato Supreme Court Review brings together leading legal scholars to analyze the most important cases of the Court's most recent term. It is the first scholarly review to appear after the term's end and the only on to critique the court from a Madisonian perspective.

Published every September in celebration of Constitution Day, the Cato Supreme Court Review brings together leading legal scholars to analyze the most important cases of the Court's most recent term. It is the first scholarly review to appear after the term's end and the only on to critique the court from a Madisonian perspective.

Cases critiqued in the 2008-2009 edition include major Court decisions on the Voting Rights Act, reverse racial discrimination in employment, the conflict between free speech and religious establishment, the regulation of pharmaceutical drugs, and important cases in the areas of criminal procedure, antitrust, and labor law.

Annotation. Now in its eighth year, this acclaimed annual publication brings together leading national scholars to analyze the Supreme Court's most important decisions from the term just ended and preview the year ahead.

Published every September in celebration of Constitution Day, the Cato Supreme Court Review brings together leading legal scholars to analyze the most important cases of the Court's most recent term. It is the first scholarly review to appear after the term's end and the only on to critique the court from a Madisonian perspective.

Now in it's 20th year, the Cato Supreme Court Review brings together leading legal scholars to analyze key cases from the Court's most recent term, plus cases coming up, specifically the most important and far-reaching cases of the year. 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.

Intro -- Contents -- Foreword -- Introduction -- The Ninth Amendment in Light of Text and History -- Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission: "Precisely What WRTL Sought to Avoid -- United States v. Stevens: Restricting Two Major Rationales for Content-Based Speech Restrictions -- Church and State at the Crossroads: Christian Legal Society v. Martinez -- Doe v. Reed and the Future of Disclosure Requirements -- The Tell-Tale Privileges or Immunities Clause -- The Degradation of the "Void for Vagueness" Doctrine: Reversing Convictions While Saving the Unfathomable "Honest Services Fraud" Statute -- Taking Stock of Comstock: The Necessary and Proper Clause and the Limits of Federal Power -- Free Enterprise Fund v. PCAOB: Narrow Separation-of-Powers Ruling Illustrates That the Supreme Court Is Not "Pro-Business"--Federal Misgovernance of Mutual Funds -- Forward to the Past -- Antitrust Formalism Is Dead! Long Live Antitrust Formalism! Some Implications of American Needle v. NFL -- Looking Ahead: October Term 2010 -- Contributors -- About Cato