Fourteenth Amendment

“Brigida Case” Breakthrough Could Prove Embarrassing and Costly for the FAA

Mountain States Legal Foundation this week filed an amended class action complaint in the case of Brigida v. U.S Department of Transportation, following a federal judge’s order allowing plaintiffs to move forward with pre-class certification discovery. It’s a breakthrough in the case MSLF has been fighting to achieve over the past two years.

Biographical Questions Forced Top ATC Candidates Out of FAA Hiring Pool

“The number of different high school sports I participated in.”
“The age at which I first started to earn money (other than an allowance).”
Strange questions to ask would-be air traffic controllers. Yet those questions and others were ones the Federal Aviation Administration asked potential air traffic controllers to answer as part of a new hiring system in 2013.

Lepak v. City of Irving, Texas

Historical Case

Case Summary Issue: Whether a city violates the “one-person, one vote” principle of the Fourteenth Amendment when it creates city council districts that, while roughly equal in total population, are…

Shelby County, Alabama v. Holder

Historical Case

Case Summary Issue: Whether the 2006 Reauthorization of Section 5 of the Voting Rights Act is unconstitutional because it exceeds Congress’s remedial power under the Enforcement Clauses of the Fourteenth…

McDonald v. City of Chicago

Historical Case

Case Summary Issue: Whether the Second Amendment right to keep and bear arms is incorporated as against the States by the Fourteenth Amendment’s Privileges or Immunities or Due Process Clauses?…