CON LAW CONDENSED

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CON LAW

STANDING REQUIREMENTS

monetary loss is best

1. P has/will be permanently injured.

2. D caused injury in a way that ct's remedy can redress.

3. No TP standing. (exceptions)

4. No Generalized Grievances (exceptions)

INJUNCTIVE DECLARATORY RELIEF

MUST SHOW LIKELIHOOD OF FUTURE HARM

RIPENESS

HARDSHIP

FITNESS

MOOTNESS EXCEPTIONS

1. wrong capable of rep and ev rvw

2. voluntary cessation

3. lead pl moot for class

POLITICAL QUESTIONS

'Republican form of government' clause (Art. 4, § IV)

challenges to the President's conduct of foreign policy,

challenges to the impeachment and removal process,

challenges to partisan gerrymandering

SC REVIEW

WRIT OF CERTIORARI

THREE JUDGE PANELS

FINAL JUDGMENT REQUIREMENTS

STATE SOVEREIGN IMMUNITY
11th am
(exceptions)

bars suits against states in federal ct

ABSTENTION

...

CONGRESS' POLICE POWER
-M.I.L.D.

M MILITARY

I INDIAN RESERVATION

L FEDERA LAND/TERR

D DC

CONGRESS' NECESSARY AND PROPER POWER

...

CONGRESS TAXES AND SPENDS

for the general welfare

INTERSTATE COMMERCE POWER APPLIES TO

CHANNELS

INSTRUMENTALITIES

SUBSTANTIAL EFFECT

ALL POWERS RESERVED TO STATES

10th amendment

CONGRESS COMPELLING STATE OFFICIALS

impermissible under the 10th am

permissible to incentivize by rational relation

Section 5 of the 14th am

...

LEGISLATIVE AND LINE ITEM VETOES UNC because

they lack BICAMERALISM and PRESENTMENT

PRESIDENTIAL APPOINTMENTS include...

AMBASSADORS

FEDERAL JUDGES

OFFICERS OF US

INFERIOR OFFICERS

officer who can be fired by another?

HOUSE IMPEACHMENT

people: pres, vp, officers

offenses: treason, bribery, high crimes/misdemeanors?

impeachment offenses cannot be pardoned

PRESIDENTS ABSOLUTE IMMUNITY

-applies to civil suits for money damages during presidency

-doesn't apply to actions taken prior to presidency

PRESIDENTIAL PAPERS AND CONVERSATIONS PROTECTED BY

PRIVILEGE

PARDON POWER

APPLIES FEDERAL CRIMES ONLY

PREEMPTION

...

PRIVILEGES & IMMUNITIES

PROTECTS OUT-OF-STATERS

ALWAYS WRONG UNLESS YOUR TALKING RIGHT TO TRAVEL

MARKET PARTICIPANT EXCEPTION

state and local governments amy favor their own citizens in receiving benefits from government programs or in dealing with government-owned businesses

STATE TAXATION POWER

-taxed activity must have substantial nexus to the state

-can't be used to help on-state businesses over out-of-state

-taxes on interstate business must be fairly apportioned

FULL FAITH AND CREDIT REQUIREMENTS

1. RENDERING CT HAD PROPER J
---personal and subject matter

2. JUDGEMENT ON MERITS

3. JUDGMENT IS FINAL

CONGRESSIONAL APPLICATION OF CONSTITUTIONAL NORMS TO REGULATION OF PRIVATE CONDUCT

-can be done by statute under the powers of the 13th am

-Prohibiting Private Race Discrim
-Commerce Power


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