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In 2011, the Tennessee legislature enacted limitations on non-economic compensatory damages and punitive damages which are recoverable in Tennessee. T.C.A. 29-39-102 was part of the...

Acting Chief of Staff and Senior Legal Fellow It’s important to recognize that illegal immigrants don’t have the same due process rights as citizens. Photo by Mike Kline (notkalvin) / Getty Images Key Takeaways The Supreme Court has upheld commonsense rules used by the Trump administration to effectively deter illegal immigrants from making false asylum claims. The law says courts can’t review the determination by the Department of Homeland Security ...

President Biden says the Supreme Court exclusion of Puerto Ricans from SSI benefits doesn't align with his values — but his words don't align with his actions.

Print A lawsuit accusing a former top leader in the San Diego District Attorney’s office and his daughter, who is also a prosecutor, of violating the civil rights of a former inmate in a child-custody battle can move forward, a federal judge ruled. In a 46-page ruling U.S. District Court Judge Cynthia Bashant threw out some of the lawsuit filed by the former inmate, Nathaniel Moore. But she allowed to move forward claims that ex-Assistant District Attorney Jesse Rodriguez and his daughter Eli...

The Constitution elevates the liberty of individuals, not majorities.

Leptospira/Getty Images 1 Jun 2021 Planned Parenthood of Greater Texas (PPGT) said Tuesday it will stop performing abortions in its Lubbock clinic in the wake of an ordinance approved by voters that declared the city a “Sanctuary City for the Unborn.” The ordinance, which took effect Tuesday, June 1, was approved by the citizens of Lubbock on May 1, and states abortion is now illegal within the city’s limits. Ken Lambrecht, CEO of PPGT, said in a statement reported by Everything Lubbock, ...

Sec. 7345 does not violate constitutional right to travel By James A. Beavers, CPA, CGMA, J.D., LL.M. Related The Tax Court held that Sec. 7345, which allows the IRS to certify that a taxpayer has a "seriously delinquent tax debt," which in turn allows the Secretary of State to deny or revoke the taxpayers passport, does not violate the Fifth Amendment to the Constitution. Background Robert Rowen is a medical doctor licensed in California. Rowen is a U.S. citizen who frequently travels to d...

Before joining the policy world, I taught history in Catholic schools.

As any former student of mine should be able to attest, the words “right to privacy” that are used to justify the right to an abortion in both Roe and Casey do not appear anywhere in the Constitution—neither do the words “viability ” or “trimester.”

In Roe, the Court argued that under the 14th Amendment, the Due Process Clause, a woman has a right to privacy, and as such, she has a constitutional right to an abortion.