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Analysis: Pondering the “tyranny of labels”

Betsy's Page found this 11/13/2008 on scotusblog.com

Analysis If a case does not fit within a constitutional pigeonhole, is there no other way to define it so that a legal dispute can be decided? That was the lingering question Wednesday as the Supreme Court tried to hack its way through a thicket of constitutional labels, with the legal fate ...