About The Author
Marc Charisse is the editor of The Evening Sun. Dr. Charisse has a Ph.D. in First Amendment law and history, and has taught communication law and constitutional law at the University of Washington in Seattle and Jacksonville University in Jacksonville, Fla. Charisse can be reached at mcharisse@eveningsun.com.
Monthly Archives: March 2012
How would Justice Holmes vote on health care?
As the Supreme Court begins its second day of oral arguments on the national health-care law, I’m reflecting back to Holmes’ famous dissent in Lochner v. New York. The majority in that infamous decision ruled that a constitutional “right to … Continue reading
Free speech and costly cancer sticks
Hard cases, observed Oliver Wendell Holmes, make bad law. With all due respect for the eminent jurist, I think he had it backward. Often, it’s good laws that make hard cases.
