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Jan. 11, 2011

Justice for Some

Takings law rulings by the U.S. Supreme Court show that access to federal courts is difficult for ordinary folks. By Gideon Kanner of the Loyola Law School.

Gideon Kanner

Professor of Law Emeritus, Loyola Law School

USC Law School


By Gideon Kanner


It isn't every day that your faithful and obedient servant finds himself aligned shoulder-to-shoulder with luminaries like The New York Times and UC Irvine's Law School Dean Erwin Chemerinsky, both of whom complain - and rightly so - that the U.S. Supreme Court has increasingly made access to justice in the federal courts more difficult for ordinary folks who allege constitutional mistreatment by the government.


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