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Friday round-up

Healthcare coverage continues with SCOTUSblog’s ongoing symposium on the constitutionality of the Affordable Care Act, which began on Monday.  Yesterday, Harvard Law School’s Laurence H. Tribe, Baker Hostetler’s David B. Rivkin and Lee A. Casey, Wake Forest’s Mark Hall, and Columbia Law School’s Abbe R. Gluck and Gillian Metzger all weighed in with perspectives. At Cato at Liberty, Ilya Shapiro discusses his essay, which was published on Wednesday.

Constitutional Law Prof Blog covers the Third Circuit’s dismissal of another challenge to the Affordable Care Act based on the plaintiff doctors’ lack of standing.  The case is New Jersey Physicians, Inc. v. President of the United States.  Steve Delchin, at the Sixth Circuit Appellate Blog, has more.

Briefly:

  • At National Review Online, Ed Whelan notes the first anniversary of the Senate’s vote to confirm Justice Kagan to the Supreme Court on August 5, 2010.
  • In a post on FindLaw‘s Supreme Court blog, Robyn Hagan Cain lists the past Term’s top five Supreme Court cases.

 

Recommended Citation: Kiera Flynn, Friday round-up, SCOTUSblog (Aug. 5, 2011, 8:45 AM), https://www.scotusblog.com/2011/08/friday-round-up-87/