Constitutional Law – May 23, 2012

by Drake Shunneson on 5/16/2012

Nineteenth Judicial District Puts Peoples Jobs in Jeopardy and Impacts the Ability to Obtain Quality Legal Representation by Proposing Heartless Procedural Rules!...more

by Cullen and Dykman LLP on 5/10/2012

On April 25, 2012 the U.S. Supreme Court heard arguments regarding the constitutionality of the controversial Arizona immigration law. The Court’s decision on the Arizona law will have broad implications on schools across the...more

by Lane Powell PC - Immigration Law on 5/2/2012

Originally published in 17 Bender’s Immigration Bulletin - May 1, 2012. Recently, many politicians have proposed changing the Fourteenth Amendment’s Citizenship Clause to exclude the U.S.-born children of persons who do...more

by Dan Goodman on 4/26/2012

William Bennett Munro, Professor of Municipal Government at Harvard University, in his work "The Government of the United States: National, State, and Local" (1919) writes at page 73: “So far as the rules of international...more

by Dan Goodman on 3/4/2012

Since the Fourteenth Amendment and the Slaughterhouse Cases, there is a citizen of the United States, and a citizen of a State who is not a citizen of the United States. A citizen of the United States is...more

by Charles (Chuck) Rubin on 2/6/2012

Favio came to the U.S. in 2005 after a kidnapping attempt against his son in Venezuela. He rented an apartment, and lived there with his son (a U.S. citizen), and his wife. He then purchased an apartment in 2006 and lived...more

by Lane Powell PC - Immigration Law on 2/1/2012

The Declaration of Independence famously asserted that “all men are created equal,” but this assertion did not become an American constitutional reality until the Fourteenth Amendment was ratified in 1868. The...more

by Dan Goodman on 1/15/2012

The seventh in a series on blunders made by the Supreme Court of the United States. In this article the case of the Slaughterhouse Cases (83 U.S. (Wall. 16) 36, 1873) is reviewed. The blunder made is that one born or...more