Harvard Law Review Pieces Cited in October Term 2019

Last Term, sixteen Supreme Court cases cited pieces published in the Harvard Law Review.  The works cited were published over the course of the Law Review’s 134-year history, touching on a variety of different topics including statutory interpretation, constitutional law, and tort law. Please see a complete list of the Articles the Court cited below.

• Multiple Chancellors: Reforming the National Injunction by Samuel L. Bray – Department of Homeland Security v. New York, 140 S.Ct. 599, 600 (2020) (Gorsuch, J., concurring).
• Fact and Law in Judicial Review by Ray A. Brown –  Baldwin v. United States, 140 S.Ct. 690, 692 (2020) (Thomas, J., dissenting).
• Fixing Statutory Interpretation by Brett M. Kavanaugh – Shular v. United States, 140 S.Ct. 779, 788 (2020) (Kavanaugh, J., concurring).
• Legal Cause in Actions of Tort by Jeremiah Smith – Comcast Corporation v. National Association of African American-Owned Media 140 S.Ct. 1021, 1042 (2020).
• Mens Rea by Frances Bowes Sayre – Kahler v. Kansas, 140 S.Ct. 1021, 1042 (2020) (Breyer, J., dissenting).
• The Suffrage Clause in the New Constitution of Louisiana by Amasa M. Eaton – Ramos v. Louisiana, 140 S.Ct. 1390, 1394 n.1 (2020).
• The First Amendment Overbreadth Doctrine by Lewis Sargentich  – United States v. Sineneng-Smith, 140 S.Ct. 1575, 1585 (2020) (Thomas, J., concurring). 
• The Insular Cases by Charles E. Littlefield – Financial Oversight and Management Board for Puerto Rico v. Aurelius Investment, LLC, 140 S.Ct. 1649, 1665 (2020).
• Adjudication Outside Article III by William Baude – Financial Oversight and Management Board for Puerto Rico v. Aurelius Investment, LLC, 140 S.Ct. 1649, 1665 (2020) (Thomas, J., concurring).
• Inventing the “Traditional Concept” of Sex Discrimination by Cary Franklin – Bostock v. Clayton County, Georgia, 140 S.Ct. 1731, 1752
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• The Absurdity Doctrine by John F. Manning – Bostock v. Clayton County, Georgia, 140 S.Ct. 1731, 1752, 1767 (2020) (Alito, J., dissenting). 
• The Origins and Historical Understanding of Free Exercise of Religion by Michael W. McConnell – Our Lady of Guadalupe School v. Morrissey-Berru, 140 S.Ct. 2049, 2079 (2020) (Sotomayor, J., dissenting).
• The Right to Privacy by Samuel D. Warren & Louis D. Brandeis – June Medical Services L. L. C. v. Russo, 140 S.Ct. 2103, 2150 (2020) (Thomas, J., dissenting).
• Presidential Administration by Elena Kagan – Seila Law LLC v. Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, 140 S.Ct. 2183, 2225 n.1 (2020) (Kagan, J., concurring).
• Separation of Powers as Ordinary Interpretation by John F. Manning – Seila Law LLC v. Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, 140 S.Ct. 2183, 2228 (2020) (Kagan, J., concurring).
• Faithful Execution and Article II by Andrew Kent, Ethan J. Leib, & Jed Handelsman Shugerman – Seila Law LLC v. Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, 140 S.Ct. 2183, 2228 (2020) (Kagan, J., concurring).
• The Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs: Myths and Realities by Cass R. Sunstein – Seila Law LLC v. Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, 140 S.Ct. 2183, 2242 n.13 (2020) (Kagan, J., concurring).
• Foreword: The Means of Constitutional Power by John F. Manning – Seila Law LLC v. Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, 140 S.Ct. 2183, 2244 (Kagan, J., concurring).
• The Origins and Historical Understanding of Free Exercise of Religion by Michael W. McConnell – Espinoza v. Montana Department of Revenue, 140 S.Ct. 2246, 2276 (2020) (Gorsuch, J., concurring).
• Freedom of Speech in War Time by Zechariah Chafee Jr. – Little Sisters of the Poor Saints Peter and Paul Home v. Pennsylvania, 140 S.Ct. 2367, 2407 (2020) (Ginsburg, J., dissenting).
• Executive Privileges and Immunities: The Nixon and Clinton Cases by Akhil Reed Amar & Neal Kumar Katyal – Trump v. Vance, 140 S.Ct. 2412, 2441 (2020) (Alito, J., dissenting).
• The Solicitor General and the Shadow Docket by Stephen I. Vladeck – Barr v. East Bay Sanctuary Covenant, 140 S.Ct. 3 (2019) (Sotomayor, J., dissenting).

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