Given that Abood was not controlling, the constitutionality of the fair-share provision as applied to personal assistants in Illinois depended upon "generally applicable First Amendment standards".
The court is likely to issue its last four decisions of the term on Monday, including ones concerning the applicability of the Second Amendment to state and local gun control laws and the constitutionality of an accounting oversight board created by the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002.
The Supreme Court sits at the center of fundamental disagreements about various crucial issues — campaign finance, affirmative action, abortion, gun control, voting rights and the constitutionality of some of President Trump's most controversial actions — and the stakes are as high as they have ever been.
Because Abood is not controlling, we must analyze the constitutionality of the payments compelled by Illinois law under generally applicable First Amendment standards.
In 1982, though, the Oklahoma Board of Education sued the CLO, which controls the State School Lands, over the constitutionality of state land lease policy.
Over the past four years, there have been more than 300 federal court decisions on the constitutionality of gun control.
At the same time, Mr. Obama has put distance between himself and legal liberals on issues like the death penalty for child rapists and the constitutionality of gun control.
In fact, lawyers on both sides of the case agreed Tuesday that a victory for the plaintiff in this case would amount to the opening chapter in an examination of the constitutionality of gun control rather than anything close to the final word.
In fact, lawyers on both sides of the case agreed today that a victory for the plaintiff in this case would amount to the opening chapter in an examination of the constitutionality of gun control rather than anything close to the final word.
The Obama administration, which has tangled with the NRA and the firearms industry over gun control, has filed a brief supporting the constitutionality of the legal shield's reach at the state level, citing the Interstate Commerce Clause.
