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The Second Amendment has gone from a rarely invoked constitutional provision to being one of the most hotly contested and politically charged protections of the Bill of Rights. Additionally, small government advocates have used local gun laws as a mechanism for challenging broad government regulation while conversely advocating for states' rights, with Alaska recently joining a series of states seeking to expand local gun rights by passing state laws that nullify federal gun laws. Given Supreme Court case law and as demonstrated by recent Ninth Circuit precedent, the nullification course is almost certainly ill fated. Apart from the big government/small government proxy war being waged through local gun laws, others see the local, traditional character of the right to bear arms in a particular place as the most appropriate manner for scrutinizing regulation, given Supreme Court precedent and historic tradition., INTRODUCTION '[The Second Amendment] had nothing to do with the concern of the remote settler to defend himself and his family against hostile Indian tribes and outlaws, wolves and bears [...]

I. INTRODUCTION The United States Federal Government has declined to enact a nationwide regulatory scheme to abate greenhouse gas emissions' Congress has repeatedly failed to pass comprehensive legislation and the [...]

ABSTRACT In its recent decision in Polar Tankers, Inc. v. City of Valdez, the United States Supreme Court held that a property tax implemented by the City of Valdez violated [...]

I. INTRODUCTION Few federal statutes inspire as much public reaction, both negative and positive, as the Endangered Species Act ("ESA" or "the Act"). (1) Much of this attention has manifested [...]

Under U.S. Supreme Court precedent, a state can charge nonresident commercial fishermen more for commercial fishing fees where the state shows the differential merely compensates the state for expenditures from [...]