As the Supreme Court weakens the Bivens constitutional tort cause of action and federal
officers avoid liability for unlawful behavior through qualified immunity, we should recollect …

LENNETTE v. STATE 975 NW2d 380 (2022) Andrew LENNETTE, Individually and on behalf
of CL, OL, and SL, Minor Children, Appellant, v. STATE of Iowa, Melody Siver, Amy Howell, …

If someone who breaks a rule can be confident they will suffer no consequences, is that rule
a law? This Article asks that question about some of our most cherished rules those …

1. See, eg, Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Org., 597 US 215 (2022)(Thomas, J.,
concurring)(eliminating the Constitutional right to an abortion); Vega v. Tekoh, 597 US 134 …

On August 7, 1863, Sergeant Jones, of the Twenty-Ninth Precinct of the New York
Metropolitan Police, was charged by the New York City Board of Police Commissioners with …

In this annual review from the Cato Institute, leading legal scholars analyze the 2021-2022
Supreme Court term, specifically the most important and far-reaching cases of the year, plus …

Abstract The Supreme Court has repudiated Bivens on the grounds that it arrogated
legislative power to the federal judiciary. As the Court steps back, Congress is free to undo …

On August 7, 1863, Sergeant Jones, of the Twenty-Ninth Precinct of the New York
Metropolitan Police, was charged by the New York City Board of Police Commissioners with …

They tortured innocent people. They tortured people very likely guilty of terrorism-related
crimes, but ruined all chance of prosecuting these people thanks to the torture. They tortured …

There is no longstanding provenance for judicially implied constitutional causes of action
like those created in Bivens. Rather, there was a historical tradition of federal courts …