Constitutional Law,
U.S. Supreme Court
Mar. 20, 2009
Payoff for Patients
The Wyeth v. Levine decision is a huge victory for patients injured by prescription drugs.
Erwin Chemerinsky
Dean and Jesse H. Choper Distinguished Professor of Law
UC Berkeley School of Law
Erwin's most recent book is "Worse Than Nothing: The Dangerous Fallacy of Originalism." He is also the author of "Closing the Courthouse," (Yale University Press 2017).
FORUM COLUMN
By Erwin Chemerinsky One of the paradoxes of constitutional law in recent years has been the willingness of conservatives to find state and local law to be pre-empted by federal law. The Rehnquist and Roberts Courts are unquestionably conservative and one would expect a conservative court to want to narrow the reach of federal pre-emption. One way to empower state and local governments is to limit the circumstances in which they are pre...For only $95 a month (the price of 2 article purchases)
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