Constitutional Law, 2003 Case Supplement

by Chemerinsky, Erwin

• ISBN13: 9780735527812
• ISBN10: 0735527814
• Edition: Supplement
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2003-09-01
• Publisher: Wolters Kluwer

Summary

To ensure that you have the most up-to-date materials for your constitutional law class, make sure you use Chemerinsky's 2003 Case Supplement. This expert author brings you the very latest cases and materials through the end of the 2002-2003 Supreme Court term.

Author Biography

Erwin Chemerinsky Sydney M. Irmas Professor of Public Interest Law, Legal Ethics, and Political Science, University of Southern California

Table of Contents

Preface	xiii
Introduction Are Military Tribunals Constitutional?	1	(16)
Detention, Treatment, and Trial of Certain Non-Citizens in the War Against Terrorism	1	(5)
Ex parte Quirin	6	(11)
Chapter 1. The Federal Judicial Power	17	(2)
B. Limits on the Federal Judicial Power	17	(2)
3. Justiciability Limits	17	(2)
c. Ripeness (casebook, p. 66)	17	(1)
e. The Political Question Doctrine	17	(12)
ii. The Political Question Doctrine Applied: Congressional Self-Governance (casebook, p. 81)	17	(2)
Chapter 2. The Federal Legislative Power	19	(52)
A. Introduction: Congress and the States	19	(10)
McCulloch v Maryland	19	(10)
B. The Commerce Power	29	(8)
4. 1990's-???: Narrowing of the Commerce Power and Revival of the Tenth Amendment as a Constraint on Congress	29	(8)
a. What Is Congress's Authority to Regulate "Commerce Among the States"? (casebook, p. 143)	29	(8)
Solid Waste Agency of Northern Cook County v. United States Army Corps of Engineers	29	(6)
Pierce County, Washington v. Guillen	35	(2)
E. Congress's Power to Authorize Suits Against State Governments	37	(34)
1. Background on the Eleventh Amendment and State Sovereign Immunity (casebook, p. 201)	37	(1)
Lapides v. Board of Regents of the University System of Georgia	37	(1)
2. Congress's Power to Authorize Suits Against State Governments (casebook, p. 203)	38	(21)
Board of Trustees, University of Alabama v. Garrett	39	(10)
Nevada Department of Human Resources v. Hibbs	49	(10)
5. Congress's Power to Authorize Suits Against State Governments in Federal Administrative Proceedings (new, to be inserted after casebook p. 230) 58
Federal Maritime Commission v. South Carolina State Port Authority	59	(12)
Chapter 3. The Federal Executive Power	71	(4)
C. The Constitutional Problems of the Administrative State	71	(3)
1. The Non-Delegation Doctrine and Its Demise (casebook, p. 252)	71	(4)
Whitman v. American Trucking Association, Inc.	71	(3)
D. Separation of Powers and Foreign Policy (casebook, p. 281)	74	(1)
Chapter 4. Limits on State Regulatory and Taxing Power	75	(10)
A. Preemption of State and Local Laws	75	(10)
1. Express Preemption (casebook, p. 306)	75	(10)
Lorillard Tobacco Co. v. Reilly	75	(10)
Chapter 5. The Structure of the Constitution's Protection of Civil Rights and Civil Liberties	85	(10)
B. The Application of the Bill of Rights to the States	85	(1)
3. The Incorporation of the Bill of Rights into the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment	85	(1)
C. The Application of the Bill of Rights and the Constitution to Private Conduct	86	(9)
2. The Exceptions to the State Action Doctrine (casebook, p. 405)	86	(9)
Brentwood Academy v. Tennessee Secondary School Athletic Association	86	(9)
Chapter 6. Economic Liberties	95	(38)
B. Economic Substantive Due Process	95	(9)
4. Economic Substantive Due Process Since 1937 (casebook, p. 477)	95	(9)
State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance Co. v. Campbell	95	(9)
D. The Takings Clause	104	(29)
2. Is There a "Taking"? (casebook, p. 498)	104	(21)
Palazzolo v. Rhode Island	104	(10)
Tahoe-Sierra Preservation Council, Inc. v. Tahoe Regional Planning Agency	114	(11)
5. What Is the Requirement for "Just Compensation"? (casebook, p. 525)	125	(8)
Brown v. Legal Foundation of Washington	125	(8)
Chapter 7. Equal Protection	133	(48)
C. Classifications Based on Race and National Origin	133	(38)
5. Racial Classifications Benefiting Minorities (casebook, p. 615)	133	(38)
Grutter v. Bollinger	133	(23)
Gratz v. Bollinger	156	(9)
Easley v. Cromartie	165	(6)
D. Gender Classifications	171	(10)
3. Gender Classifications Benefiting Women (casebook, p. 658)	171	(10)
Nguyen v. Immigration and Naturalization Service	172	(9)
Chapter 8. Fundamental Rights Under Due Process and Equal Protection	181	(44)
F. Constitutional Protection for Sexual Orientation and Sexual Activity (casebook, p. 799)	181	(15)
Lawrence v. Texas	181	(15)
I. The Right to Vote	196	(29)
4. Counting "Uncounted" Votes in a Presidential Election: Bush v. Gore (new, following casebook, p. 832)	196	(29)
Bush v. Gore	200	(22)
Issues to Consider Concerning Bush v. Gore	222	(3)
Chapter 9. First Amendment: Freedom of Expression	225	(138)
B. Free Speech Methodology	225	(50)
1. The Distinction Between Content-Based and Content-Neutral Laws	225	(28)
a. The Importance of the Distinction (casebook, p. 904)	225	(16)
Republican Party of Minnesota v. White	225	(16)
c. Problems in Applying the Distinction Between Content-Based and Content-Neutral Laws	241	(12)
United States v. American Library Association, Inc.	241	(12)
2. Vagueness and Overbreadth (casebook, p. 919)	253	(4)
b. Overbreadth (casebook, p. 921)	253	(4)
Virginia v. Hicks	253	(4)
3. Prior Restraints	257	(10)
c. Licensing as a Prior Restraint	257	(10)
Thomas and Windy City Hemp Development Board v. Chicago Park District	257	(3)
Watchtower Bible and Tract Society of New York, Inc. v. Village of Stratton	260	(7)
4. What Is an Infringement of Freedom of Speech?	267	(8)
Legal Services Corporation v. Velazquez	267	(8)
C. Types of Unprotected and Less Protected Speech	275	(84)
2. Fighting Words, the Hostile Audience, and the Problem of Racist Speech (casebook, p. 991)	275	(13)
iv. Prohibiting Threatening Speech	275	(13)
Virginia v. Black	275	(13)
3. Sexually Oriented Speech	288	(34)
b. Child Pornography (casebook, p. 1022)	288	(9)
Ashcroft v. The Free Speech Coalition	289	(8)
c. Protected, but Low Value Sexual Speech	297	(14)
i. Zoning Ordinances (casebook, p. 1025)	297	(1)
City of Los Angeles v. Alameda Books, Inc.	298	(13)
e. Profanity and "Indecent" Speech	311	(11)
iii. The Internet (casebook, p. 1044)	311	(1)
Ashcroft v. American Civil Liberties Union	311	(11)
4. Commercial Speech	322	(12)
c. The Test for Evaluating Regulation of Commercial Speech (casebook, p. 1063)	322	(1)
g. Regulating Commercial Speech to Achieve Other Goals (casebook, p.1072)	322	(12)
Lorillard Tobacco Co. v. Reilly	322	(11)
Thompson v. Western. States Medical Center	333	(1)
5. Reputation, Privacy, Publicity and the First Amendment: Torts and the First Amendment	334	(11)
c. Public Disclosure of Private Facts (casebook, p. 1097)	334	(11)
Bartnicki v. Vopper	335	(10)
6. Conduct that Communicates	345	(14)
c. When May the Government Regulate Conduct that Communicates?	345	(14)
iii. Spending Money as Political Speech (casebook, p. 1113)	345	(1)
v. The Continuing Distinction Between Contributions and Expenditures (casebook, p. 1121)	345	(1)
Federal Election Commission v. Colorado Republican Federal Campaign Committee	345	(9)
vi. Is Corporate Spending Protected Speech? (casebook p. 1124)	354	(1)
Federal Election Commission v. Beaumont	354	(5)
D. What Places Are Available for Speech?	359	(4)
1. Government Properties and Speech	359	(1)
d. Designated (Limited) Public Forums (casebook, p. 1146)	359	(1)
3. Speech in Authoritarian Environments: Military, Prisons, and Schools	360	(3)
b. Prisons (casebook, p. 1166)	360	(3)
Shaw v. Murphy	360	(3)
Chapter 10. First Amendment: Religion	363
C. The Establishment Clause	363
4. Religious Speech and the First Amendment	363	(11)
a. Religious Group Access to School Facilities (casebook, p. 1282)	363	(11)
Good News Club v. Milford Central School	363	(11)
6. When Can Government Give Aid to Parochial Schools? (casebook, p. 1305)	374
Zelman v. Simmons-Harris	374