When many of us think about the law, we think of a judge wielding a gavel with authority. The truth, however, is that in the United States, laws are more likely to be enacted by a legislature or a regulatory agency than simply announced by a court.
Author(s): Peter J. Smith
Series: The Great Courses
Publisher: The Teaching Company
Year: 2019-05
Language: English
Pages: 115
Tags: TTC, TGC
Professor Biography......Page 3
Table of Contents......Page 5
Course Scope......Page 7
Setting the Stage......Page 9
Is It a Vehicle?......Page 11
The Ambiguity of Language......Page 12
Letter and Spirit......Page 13
Other Interpretative Questions......Page 14
Lecture 2– Regulation by Statute and by Common Law......Page 16
Contracts and Tort Law......Page 17
Common-Law Regulation......Page 18
Asbestos......Page 20
The Courts’ Response......Page 22
Legislation......Page 23
Lecture 3– Legislation and the Administrative State......Page 25
The Civil Rights Act......Page 26
The Workplace Protections......Page 28
Affirmative Action......Page 29
Administrative Agencies......Page 32
The EEOC and the Workplace......Page 33
Lecture 4– Touchstones of Statutory Interpretation......Page 35
Church of the Holy Trinity v. United States......Page 36
The Court’s Reasoning, Part 1......Page 37
The Court’s Reasoning, Part 2......Page 39
Riggs v. Palmer......Page 41
Riggs v. Palmer in the New York Court of Appeals......Page 43
Other Opinions......Page 44
Conclusion......Page 45
Background on Tennessee Valley Authority v. Hill......Page 48
The Court’s Conclusion......Page 50
West Virginia University Hospitals, Inc. v. Casey......Page 52
Arguments on the Case......Page 53
Background on Canons......Page 56
Justice Holmes’s Conclusion......Page 57
Semantic Canons......Page 58
Noscitur a sociis......Page 60
Substantive Canons......Page 61
Background on United States v. Marshall......Page 64
Marshall’s Challenge......Page 65
Marshall’s Case in Court......Page 67
Other Drugs......Page 68
The Dissents......Page 69
Two Views......Page 70
Conclusion......Page 71
Enforcing Rules......Page 74
Whitman v. American Trucking Associations......Page 76
Power Issues......Page 78
Whitman v. American Trucking Associations, Continued......Page 79
The Nondelegation Doctrine......Page 80
Costs and Benefits......Page 81
INS v. Chadha......Page 83
Agency Independence......Page 85
The President’s Ability to Fire Officials......Page 87
Humphrey’s Executor v. United States......Page 88
Independent Prosecutors......Page 89
Lecture 11– Judicial Review of Agency Rulings......Page 92
Judicial Review of Agency Procedures......Page 93
Specialty Foods......Page 94
Judicial Review of Agency Reasoning......Page 96
Airbags at Issue......Page 97
The Court’s Reasoning......Page 98
After the Case......Page 99
Background on Chevron v. NRDC......Page 101
The NRDC Challenge......Page 103
MCI Telecommunications Corp. v. AT&T Co.......Page 104
FDA v. Brown & Williamson Tobacco Corp.......Page 106
Bibliography......Page 109
Image Credits......Page 114
