By Robert A. Levy
The right answer to the same-sex marriage question is to remove government from the marriage business altogether. That’s a legislative matter, however, and not something the courts should decree. Until then, because state and federal laws confer benefits based on marital status, the equal protection provisions of the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments require that same-sex [...]
Gay Marriage Still Has an Uphill Climb is a post from Cato @ Liberty – Cato Institute Blog
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By Ilya Shapiro
Cato today filed an amicus brief supporting a request that the Supreme Court review Arkansas Game & Fish Commission v. United States. Here’s the case: The Arkansas Game & Fish Commission owns and operates 23,000 acres of land as a wildlife refuge and recreational preserve; the preserve’s trees are essential to its use for these purposes. Clearwater [...]
The Government Must Compensate for Property Damage Even If Its Taking Was Only ‘Temporary’ is a post from Cato @ Liberty – Cato Institute Blog
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By Ilya Shapiro
This blogpost was coauthored by Cato legal associate Chaim Gordon. Thanks to the Institute for Justice, those suffering from leukemia and various other ailments that require them to wait for a bone marrow match to miraculously appear have new hope. Yesterday’s unanimous opinion by the Ninth Circuit in Flynn v. Holder effectively deregulates the bone-marrow market—and [...]
Ninth Circuit Gets It Right, Deregulates the Bone Marrow Market is a post from Cato @ Liberty – Cato Institute Blog
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By Ilya Shapiro
This blogpost was coauthored by Cato legal associate Trevor Burrus, who also worked on the brief discussed below. Rent control is literally a textbook example of bad economic policy. Economics textbooks often use it as an example of how price ceilings create shortages, poor quality goods, and under-the-table dealings. A 1992 survey revealed that 93 [...]
Rent Control Violates Property Rights and Due Process is a post from Cato @ Liberty – Cato Institute Blog
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