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Sat, 03 Sep 2011 02:40:16 +0100 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4139216&cid=t_295925_87_f&fid=36438&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FCato-at-liberty%2F%7E3%2FHGPPXQekxjA%2F By Ilya ShapiroWith the Constitution — and its limits on government – playing such an outsized role in Tuesday’s elections and American political discourse generally, this would be a good time to mention a new program that teaches high school students about our founding document.  My sometime co-author Josh Blackman, who is the founder of the Harlan Institute (a constitutional education non-profit for which, full disclosure, I serve on the board of directors) recently launched this year’s version of FantasySCOTUS.org, a Supreme Court fantasy league that was featured (along with Harlan) in yesterday’s Washington Post.  In FantasySCOTUS, students learn about and make predictions for pending Supreme Court cases, including recent headliners Snyder v. ... Cato-at-liberty blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4139216 Fri, 05 Nov 2010 16:03:34 +0100 4139216 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3753792&cid=t_295925_87_f&fid=36438&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FCato-at-liberty%2F%7E3%2FqcEC5L1bchw%2F By Ilya ShapiroMy sometime co-author Josh Blackman points out a parallel between Justice Thomas’s fascinating concurrence in McDonald v. Chicago — which extended the right to keep and bear arms to the states – and the “Keeping Pandora’s Box Sealed” article we published earlier this year. Justice Thomas in McDonald v. Chicago: With the inquiry appropriately narrowed, I believe this case presents an opportunity to reexamine, and begin the process of restoring, the meaning of the Fourteenth Amendment agreed upon by those who ratified it. Blackman & Shapiro in Pandora’s Box: The purpose of this article is to provide a roadmap to welcome the Privileges or Immunities Clause back into constitutional jurisprudence. The Slaughter-House Cases “sapped the... Cato-at-liberty blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3753792 Thu, 15 Jul 2010 02:20:51 +0100 3753792 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3595566&cid=t_295925_87_f&fid=36438&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FCato-at-liberty%2F%7E3%2FX52WaVptCyY%2F By Ilya ShapiroAs Larry Solum notes and Randy Barnett seconds, Georgetown law professor and friend-of-Cato Nick Rosenkranz has just published a tremendous article in the Stanford Law Review.  I saw an earlier version of it and can tell you that it offers one of those singular re-thinks of accepted learning.  As Randy puts it, “It is one of those rare pieces that hits you between the eyes and causes you to reconsider how you think about the Constitution.”  The article, entitled “The Subjects of the Constitution,” argues that all of us are going about our constitutional theorizing, at least with respect to judicial review, the wrong way.  Here’s the first paragraph of the abstract: Two centuries after Marbury v. Madison, there remains a deep confusion about... Cato-at-liberty blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3595566 Tue, 25 May 2010 12:35:34 +0100 3595566 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3595571&cid=t_295925_87_f&fid=36438&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FCato-at-liberty%2F%7E3%2FUh7u9PC2WPQ%2F By Walter Olson“Rent Control Is a Vanishing New York Treasure,” proclaims the headline over a New York Times story. Like Josh Blackman, I think “treasure” isn’t the right word here: “anachronism“, “disgrace” and “abject policy calamity” are more like it. P.S. The Times article sympathetically depicts a Gotham tenant who pays the legally dictated rent of $288 to live in one of the nation’s most desirable neighborhoods. You guessed it: he feels put upon in that situation, believes his landlord should be doing much more to spruce up the place, and has teamed up with Manhattan State Sen. Liz Krueger to pursue his fight. (Source: Cato-at-liberty) Cato-at-liberty blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3595571 Mon, 24 May 2010 18:50:06 +0100 3595571 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3108339&cid=t_295925_87_f&fid=36438&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FCato-at-liberty%2F%7E3%2FJTfRB-pr-CU%2F By Ilya ShapiroI recently blogged about an interesting op-ed in which Ken Klukowski and Ken Blackwell of the American Civil Rights Union argue that the Supreme Court need not overturn The Slaughter-House Cases while “incorporating” the right to bear arms against the states.  (Josh Blackman fisked the article in more depth here.)   This piece was essentially a distillation of the ACRU’s amicus brief in McDonald v. City of Chicago, which ultimately argues, like Cato’s brief, that Chicago’s gun ban is unconstitutional. It has come to my attention, however, that I mischaracterized one aspect of the Kens’ op-ed (sorry about that): while they are indeed against overturning Slaughter-House, the authors still seek to apply the Second Amendment rightÂ... Cato-at-liberty blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3108339 Mon, 21 Dec 2009 12:52:10 +0100 3108339 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3082392&cid=t_295925_87_f&fid=36438&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FCato-at-liberty%2F%7E3%2FSbBHybuqw1E%2F By Ilya ShapiroIn today’s Washington Times, Ken Klukowski and Ken Blackwell co-authored an op-ed about McDonald v. Chicago and the Privileges or Immunities Clause titled, “A gun case or Pandora’s box?” If that title sounds familiar, it should. Josh Blackman and I have co-authored a forthcoming article called “Opening Pandora’s Box? Privileges or Immunities, The Constitution in 2020, and Properly Incorporating the Second Amendment.“  As Josh put it in his reply to the Kens, “imitation is the most sincere form of flattery.” Going beyond the title, there are several errors in the piece,  which I will briefly recap: First, the Kens argue that the Supreme Court should uphold the Slaughter-House Cases, out of a fear that reversal — and thereb... Cato-at-liberty blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3082392 Fri, 11 Dec 2009 19:29:54 +0100 3082392 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3023092&cid=t_295925_87_f&fid=36438&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FCato-at-liberty%2F%7E3%2FwDabaHUGt-k%2F Josh Blackman, my coauthor on “Opening Pandora’s Box? Privileges or Immunities, The Constitution in 2020, and Properly Incorporating the Second Amendment,” has inaugurated a series of podcasts devoted to law and liberty. He’s already has an interview with PLF’s Timothy Sandefur (also a Cato adjunct scholar) and the Independence Institute’s David Kopel (also a Cato associate policy analyst).  Tim authored Cato’s brief in McDonald v. City of Chicago, the case seeking to extend Second Amendment protections to the states — and about which I blogged yesterday. Well, now Josh has come up with a bit of a twist on the podcast medium: he invited George Mason law prof Ilya Somin (also a Cato adjunct scholar) and me to engage in a contest based on t... Cato-at-liberty blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3023092 Tue, 24 Nov 2009 16:48:02 +0100 3023092 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3018980&cid=t_295925_87_f&fid=36438&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FCato-at-liberty%2F%7E3%2FDEAth9FtwTQ%2F Last year, in District of Columbia v. Heller, the Supreme Court confirmed what most scholars and a substantial majority of Americans long believed: that the Second Amendment protects an individual right to keep and bear arms. Heller led to the current challenge to Chicago’s handgun ban, which raises the question of whether the Fourteenth Amendment protects that right against infringement by state and local governments. The Seventh Circuit answered the question in the negative, finding itself foreclosed by 19th-century Supreme Court decisions. The Supreme Court agreed to review the case — after Cato filed an amicus brief supporting the cert petition — and specifically consider whether the Fourteenth Amendment’s Due Process Clause or its Privileges or Immunities Claus... Cato-at-liberty blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3018980 Mon, 23 Nov 2009 13:51:51 +0100 3018980 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2790318&cid=t_295925_113_f&fid=34634&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FEmrAndHipaa%2F%7E3%2FzuWe5iHjidM%2F I was sent the following guest blog post from DrFirst. Controlled substance regulations have always thrown a bit of a wrench in the cranks of ePrescribing initiatives. So, the fact that the first ever electronic prescriptions of a controlled substance is an important milestone for digitizing healthcare. Check out the full guest blog post: At 2:42pm EDT yesterday, Michael Blackman, MD and CMIO of Berkshire Medical Center, sent the nation’s first prescription of a controlled substance electronically, using DrFirst’s Rcopia electronic prescribing application. DrFirst was granted a DEA waiver to send Schedule II-V Medications as a part of the Electronic Prescribing of Controlled Substances (EPCS) pilot program in Massachusetts, a program facilitated by an AHRQ grant. After Rcopia’s drug,... EMR and HIPAA blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2790318 Sun, 13 Sep 2009 15:30:51 +0100 2790318 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2621741&cid=t_295925_87_f&fid=38368&url=http%3A%2F%2Fstatic.slidesharecdn.com%2Fswf%2Fssplayer2.swf%3Fdoc%3Dtheadvanceofmhealthslideshare-090416113113-phpapp01%26amp%3Bstripped_title%3Dthe-advance-of-mhealth-1300600 This article will aim to look at a specific area of the ‘citizen empowerment’ – the application of SMS (Short Messaging Service – or texting) and mobile phones in public health. With the onset of social tools such as social networking sites (Facebook, Myspace, etc.) and real time information hubs such as Twitter, we are exposed to numerous ways to stay connected to each other. Our mobile devices are equipped with applications that allow us to do a myriad of things – many of which focus on entertainment and productivity. Another very important part of our lives is maintaining good health and the mobile phone is making strides in that area. mHealth is the term that has been coined to describe the interaction of mobile technology with the improvement of health. mHealth is exploding ... Disruptive Women in Health Care blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2621741 Tue, 21 Jul 2009 11:02:37 +0100 2621741 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1670022&cid=t_295925_111_f&fid=34615&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.emergiblog.com%2F2008%2F07%2Fthe-miracle-of-the-pan-mass-challenge.html It’s happening this weekend. The 2008 Pan-Mass Challenge. What it is: The Pan-Massachusetts Challenge raises money for life-saving cancer research and treatment at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute through an annual bike-a-thon that crosses the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. Why I’m involved: This is Dr. Sam Blackman, and with him is Miss Rebecca Hopkins. We know Sam as Blog, MD. Rebecca knows Sam because he is her oncologist. Every year, Sam rides in the Pan-Mass Challenge to raise funds for pediatric oncology research. It’s a cause I have been honored to support since Sam first emailed me about it a few years ago. This year, Sam won’t be riding. He has a new location and a new job in cancer drug development. But Rebecca will be riding in his place, in memory of and fo... Emergiblog blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1670022 Fri, 01 Aug 2008 03:26:44 +0100 1670022