ConLaw Class 11 – Scope of Federal Powers II

February 24th, 2014

The lecture notes are here. The live chat is here.

Scope of Federal Powers II

  • Wickard v. Filburn (607-612).
  • The modern debate (612).
  • Hearts of Atlanta Motel (612-617).
  • United States v. Lopez(617-637).’

Wickard v. Filburn

This is farmer Roscoe Filburn.

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This is Secretary of the Agriculture Claude Wickard.

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This is Wickard, flanked by New Dealers, in front of various charts and projections about the price of agriculture.

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Hearts of Atlanta Motel v. United States

The Hearts of Atlanta Motel, located at 255 Courtland Street NE in Atlanta, was owned by Atlanta lawyer Moreton Rolleston Jr. This was a segregate hotel. Rolleston represented himself all the way to the Supreme Court. The location is currently a Hilton.

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Katzenbach v. McClung

This is Ollie’s Bar-B-Q, the site of Katzenbach v. McClung in Birmingham, Alabama.

 

 

And because I am insane, I purchased an entire case of Ollie’s Bar-B-Q sauce.

United States v. Lopez

This is Thomas Edison High School in San Antonio, Texas, the site where Alfonso Lopez, Jr., brought a gun to school in violation of the Gun-Free School Zones Act of 1990.

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I obtained these (blurry) photographs from Lopez’s high school yearbook.


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The caption reads “Rushing down the field, Alfonzo Lopez warms up before the game.”

Gonzales v. Raich

This is Angel Raich, the lead plaintiff in Gonzales v. Raich.

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Here is a photograph of Raich using a marijuana vaporizer.

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Right to Left: Robert Raich, Angel McClary Raich, (a younger) Randy Barnett, Diane Monson, and David Michael at the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco, California.

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Here is Raich finding out that the Supreme Court ruled against her cause.

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