DLS Issue Briefs
- Federal
Tax Reform: Virginia Impacts (pdf)
January 2018 - Fetal
Death by Wrongful Act: Expanding Wrongful Death Actions to the Unborn
(pdf)
August 2012 - The Constitutionality
of the Affordable Care Act: NFIB v. Sebelius (pdf)
July 2012 - Disabled
Military Veterans' Real Property Tax Exemption (pdf)
May 2011 - Partial
Birth Abortion: Gonzales v. Carhart (pdf)
July 2008 - The Effect
of Same-sex Cohabitation on Spousal Support: Stroud v. Stroud (pdf)
March 2007 - Closed
Meeting Exemption for Contract Negotiations under the Virginia Freedom
of Information Act: White Dog Publishing v. Culpeper County Board
of Supervisors (pdf)
October 2006 - States'
Rights versus the Commerce Clause: California's Marijuana Medical
Use Law: Gonzales v. Raich (pdf)
August 2005 - Economic
Development as a Public Use: Kelo v. City of New London (pdf)
June 2005 - Death
Penalty for Juveniles is Cruel and Unusual Punishment: Roper v. Simmons
(pdf)
March 2005 - Medicare
Prescription Drug Improvement and Modernization Act of 2003: Prescription
Drug Benefit Implementation in Virginia and Review of Pending State
and Federal Legislation (pdf)
August 2004 - Beck v.
Shelton: The Virginia Supreme Court Examines the Parameters of a "Meeting"
under FOIA
March 2004 - United
States Supreme Court Decides Ex Post Facto Case: Virginia Code and
Constitution Affected
September 2003 - Implementing
No Child Left Behind: Virginia Revisits Educational Accountability
September 2003 - Sodomy
and the Right to Privacy: Reassessing Privacy Interests in Texas v.
Lawrence
July 2003 - The Use
of Race in Higher Education Admissions: The University of Michigan
Receives Two Different Results
July 2003 - High Court
Reinstates Virginia Public Housing Tresspass Policy: Commonwealth
v. Hicks
June 2003 - Virginia's
Cross-Burning Statute: Virginia v. Black
April 2003 - Pledge
of Allegiance: Recent Constitutional Controversy
July 2002 - Public
Funding for Nonpublic Education: School Voucher Initiatives
July 2002 - Regulation
of Out-of-State Waste: Waste Management Holdings v. Gilmore
July 2001 - Federal
Tax Relief Act
June 2001 - Virginia's
Three Sets of Education Standards
June 30, 1997 - In-State
Preferences in Public Procurement: How Far Can Virginia Go?
July 15, 1996 - Binding
the Hands of Future Legislators: The Nebraska v. Moore Case
July 11, 1996 - Racial
Gerrymandering: Supreme Court Decisions in Shaw v. Hunt and Bush v.
Vera
July 8, 1996
