Constitutional Law
Sep. 16, 2006
'Murphy' Lets Successful Plaintiffs Keep All Their Damages
FOCUS-- It is not every day that an appellate court strikes down on constitutional grounds one of Congress' laws that has been on the books for a decade.
By Nathan Hochman
It is not every day that an appellate court strikes down on constitutional grounds one of Congress' laws that has been on the books for a decade. And it is even rarer when the constitutional provision being invoked is one of the lesser-known amendments. Yet the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit in Murphy v. IRS, 05-5139, entere...
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