Thursday round-up
on Jun 5, 2014 at 7:02 am
Briefly:
- At the International Municipal Lawyers Association’s Appellate Practice Blog, Lisa Soronen discusses last week’s grant in Comptroller v. Wynne, in which the Court will consider whether the Constitution prohibits Maryland from taxing all of the income of its residents — wherever earned — by mandating a credit for taxes paid on income earned in other states.
- At Reason.com, Damon Root compares the Chief Justice’s opinion this week in Bond v. United States with his opinion in the challenge to the Affordable Care Act’s individual mandate; in both cases, Root suggests, Roberts “craft[ed] a saving construction that cabined the Court’s ruling and avoided a broader constitutional showdown.”
- At ACSblog, John Blume weighs in on last week’s decision in Hall v. Florida, in which the Court deemed unconstitutional Florida’s requirement that a defendant in a capital case show an IQ score of seventy or below before being allowed to submit more evidence regarding his intellectual disability.
- In the Boston Review, William Hogeland looks at the Court’s decision in McCutcheon v. FEC, striking down federal aggregate limits on campaign contributions, and what it might say about the Chief Justice’s views on democracy.
- At Re’s Judicata, Richard Re discusses “personal precedent” in the context of the dissenting opinions by Justices Scalia and Ginsburg in Michigan v. Bay Mills Indian Community.
- At The Huffington Post, Victor Williams looks ahead to the Court’s decision in NLRB v. Noel Canning, on the constitutionality of the president’s recess appointments to the NLRB, and urges the Court to “stay out of the partisan fight over appointments.”
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