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LAW MAN Hits Bookshelves

I haven’t had much opportunity to blog the past couple of weeks because Annie and I have been busy with book promotion. On August 7th, my memoir LAW MAN: My Story of Robbing Banks, Winning Supreme Court Cases, and Finding Redemption landed at bookshelves around the country. And in the past two [...]

Book Review: Rehabilitating Lochner

Jacob H. Huebert2014-04-14T18:52:22-05:00December 20th, 2011|Tags: book, constitution, david bernstein, Due Process, fourteenth amendment, lochner, new york, rehabilitating, review, substantive, Supreme Court|

In the Winter 2012 Independent Review, I review David Bernstein’s Rehabilitating Lochner: Defending Individual Rights Against Progressive Reform. Here’s how it starts: Few Supreme Court cases receive more scorn in U.S. law schools than Lochner v. New York (198 U.S. 45), the 1905 decision that struck down a New York law limiting the number of [...]