...nor shall private property be taken for public use, without just compensation. Considering its modern importance, the original purpose of the Takings Clause is surprisingly obscure. Most ...

This month’s cases involve a cert petition to the U.S. Supreme Court on the extraterritorial application of the federal Defend Trade Secrets Act, ...

The Equal Protection Clause is a section of the 14th Amendment to the United States Constitution that provides that "no state shall...deny to any citizen within its jurisdiction the equal ...

Justices Neil Gorsuch and Sonia Sotomayor have called for further review of a key constitutional question concerning the Takings Clause after the Supreme Court declined to hear a case involving ...

Eugene Volokh is the Thomas M. Siebel Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford, and the Gary T. Schwartz Distinguished Professor of Law Emeritus and Distinguished Research Professor at ...

There is also historical evidence that the clause was designed to prohibit what the Framers observed as recent abusive state practices in the taking of private property. The issue of ex post facto ...