most important recent decisions

Tue Feb 14 16:41:06 PST 2006

Why Kelo? I know it produced a storm of protest, but the majority was just
following so-called settled law. 

Malla Pollack

Professor, American Justice School of Law

Visiting Univ. of Idaho, College of Law

mpollack at uidaho.edu

208-885-2017

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Subject: Re: most important recent decisions

I would pick Raich, Kelo, McConnell v. FEC (assuming it counts for 2003),
The Guantanamo cases as a group (I'm not sure it's worth trying to separate
them out), and Roper v. Simmons.

robson wrote:

Paul:

Excluding Lawrence & Grutter as from the 2002 term, my picks for important
cases would be:

Ashcroft v ACLU

Hamdi

Tennessee v. Lane

Locke v. Davey

Kelo

Castle Rock

Roper v. Simons

Gonzalez v. Oregon

and when decided, I'd probably put Rumsfeld v. FAIR on the list.

Ruthann

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Subject: most important recent decisions

>I am trying to get a sense of what the most important recent US Sup. Ct. 
> decisions are for the past 4 terms 02-03
> 03-04
> 04-05
> and as they come in
> 05-06
> 
> I am trying to identify the 8-10 (more or less) most important decisions 
> of each term.  Off list responses would be find, but it might make an 
> interesting discussion for a day or two if it is done on list.
> 
> I realize this is a totally unscientific survey, but I think it will be 
> useful as a way of seeing how we (law profs)  see the court's 
> decisions.  Obviously most important can be decisions we don't like.
> 
> Thanks in advance.
> 
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