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Category Archives: United States Constitution
The Peace Cross Case: Has The Court Soured on Lemon?
In The American Legion v. American Humanist Ass’n, Nos. 17-1717, 18-18, argued February 27, 2019, the Supreme Court will decide whether the “Peace Cross” erected in 1925 in Bladensburg, Maryland, as a memorial to 49 soldiers who died in World War … Continue reading
Posted in constitutional litigation, Supreme Court, Uncategorized, United States Constitution
Tagged American Legion v. American Humanist Ass'n, Establishment Clause, Lemon v. Kurtzman, Peace Cross, Supreme Court
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Alexander Solzhenitsyn and the Masterpiece Cakeshop Case
In an article in the current issue of Touchstone magazine, L. Joseph Letendre discusses the famous commencement speech of Alexander Solzhenitsyn at Harvard University in 1978. One of the points that Solzhenitsyn makes in his speech regarding the decline of the … Continue reading
Posted in Business Litigation, Civil Rights Litigation, constitutional litigation, Ethics, Politics, Religion, Supreme Court, Uncategorized, United States Constitution
Tagged Alexander Solzhenitsyn, Masterpiece Cakeshop, Solzhenitsyn commencement speech at Harvard
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Masterpiece Cakeshop: Crafting a Minimalist Decision
The Masterpiece Cakeshop case presents issues of free speech and free exercise of religion which are important, controversial, and divisive. Almost any decision on these issues will result in a public and academic outcry by whichever side fails to prevail. The court should … Continue reading
Posted in american business, Art, Business Litigation, Civil Rights Litigation, constitutional litigation, Religion, Supreme Court, United States Constitution
Tagged free exercise of religion protections, free exercise religion v. anti-discrimination laws, free speech protections, Jack Phillips, judicial minimalism, Masterpiece Cakeshop, Supreme Court
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Wedding Cake Wars: Anti-Discrimination Laws and Religious Liberty
Cake makers who have refused to design cakes for same sex weddings have been sued under public accommodations or other anti-discrimination laws and held financially liable to the couples who sued them in several jurisdictions, most notably in Colorado and … Continue reading
Posted in american business, American History, American Politics, constitutional litigation, Politics, Religion, Supreme Court, United States Constitution
Tagged artist first amendment rights, cake makers first amendment rights, compelled speech, LGBT rights, Masterpiece Cakeshop, refusal to serve same sex couples, religious liberty and cake makers, same sex discrimination
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My New Facebook History Publications Page
Friends: I have just opened a new Facebook page featuring my publications on American History. Please take a look on Facebook at Edward F. Mannino @ManninoHistory. This describes all my books, including the just-released Politics and American Business: The Growth … Continue reading
Posted in american business, American History, American Politics, Business Litigation, constitutional litigation, Economics, Patent Litigation, Politics, Supreme Court, United States Constitution
Tagged access to courts, business and politics, defense spending, Edward F. Mannino, infrastructure, legal protections for technology, Politics and American Business, regulation of business
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Politics and American Business: Adversaries or Allies?
Are business and government allies or adversaries? What is the proper relationship between the two? These questions are important issues for the upcoming presidential, congressional, and state elections. They are also the subject of my new book, Politics and American Business: … Continue reading
Posted in american business, American Politics, Business Litigation, constitutional litigation, Economics, Supreme Court, United States Constitution
Tagged american business, Civil War, Dwight Eisenhower, FDR New Deals, Growth of American Business, infrastructure and business growth, military-industrial complex, patents, politics and business, Populists, Progressives, Supreme Court, Technology and Business Growth, Theodore Roosevelt, trade secrets, Woodrow Wilson
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Whole Woman’s Health v. Hellerstedt and the Future of Abortion Restrictions
In Whole Woman’s Health v. Hellerstedt, No. 15-274 (June 27, 2016), the Supreme Court struck down two provisions of a Texas law relating to the regulation of abortion clinics in that state. Those provisions required, first, that abortion doctors have admitting privileges … Continue reading
Posted in constitutional litigation, Supreme Court, Uncategorized, United States Constitution
Tagged abortion, abortion restrictions, burdens versus benefits test., Gonzales v. Carhart, Justice Stephen Breyer, mandatory pre-abortion untrasounds, Planned Parenthood v. Casey, Whole Woman's Health v. Hellerstedt
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Supreme Court Declines to Hear Pharmacists’ Religious Exemption Claim
Regulations issued by the Washington State Board of Pharmacy require all pharmacists to provide emergency contraceptives, specifically mandating that no one may refuse to do so based on religious grounds. In Stormans, Inc. v. Wiesman, No. 15-862 (June 28, 2016), the … Continue reading
Posted in American Politics, constitutional litigation, Politics, Supreme Court, United States Constitution
Tagged Contraceptive litigation, Justice Alito, pharmacist obligation to provide contraceptives, religious liberty and pharmacists, right to exercise religion, Stormans Inc v. Wiesman
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Are There Limits to Birthright Citizenship?
In the recent political debates among the various candidates for the Republican nomination for the presidency, Donald Trump has raised the issue of whether there are limits on the individuals who are entitled to be afforded birthright citizenship. On that … Continue reading
Posted in American Politics, constitutional litigation, Politics, Supreme Court, United States Constitution
Tagged "anchor babies", "subject to the jurisdiction", 14th amendment, American citizenship, Children born to foreign diplomats, Donald Trump, Elk v. Wilkins (1884), Native American citizenship, Slaughterhouse Cases (1873), United States v. Wong Kim Ark (1898)
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