Bruce Fein

Bruce Fein

June 28, 2017 | Daily Report Online

Lawyer Backs 'Lampoon' of Georgia High Court: Letter

A letter writer offers reinforcement for critic of Supreme Court's originalism.

By Bruce Fein

2 minute read

December 06, 2004 | National Law Journal

Boies' Life

In Courting Justice, superlawyer David Boies has written a mercury-footed and engaging chronicle of the landmark cases in his career, marred only by a tendentious recounting and appraisal of Bush v. Gore.

By Bruce Fein

9 minute read

January 02, 2006 | National Law Journal

An unconstitutional 'cure'

The Federal Communications Commission's paternalistic experiment with banning broadcasting indecency has been a monumental failure, akin to Savonarola's burning of the vanities and the fig leaf campaign of the Counter-Reformation. Yet nothing good has been accomplished in diminishing vulgarities or coarseness in American culture or discourse.

By Bruce FeinSpecial to The National Law Journal

5 minute read

December 08, 2003 | National Law Journal

They Made Me Defend It

Bruce Fein worries that the Federal Communications Commission chairman lacks enthusiasm in defending agency policy.

By Bruce Fein

7 minute read

August 22, 2005 | National Law Journal

When the Court Struck Out

For nearly a century, Major League Baseball has been comfortably shielded by a Supreme Court-granted exemption from the antitrust laws. Now would be an excellent time for the Supreme Court to finally reverse its 83-year sop to professional baseball.

By Bruce Fein

10 minute read

August 30, 2004 | National Law Journal

D.C. Circuit Upended Telecom Precedents

Bruce Fein says the Supreme Court should ignore the FCC and review a D.C. Circuit decision undermining the Telecom Act.

By Bruce Fein

9 minute read

May 14, 2007 | National Law Journal

How to Block Broadband

State net neutrality bills would impede America's broadband future. That only defies the Constitution, contends Bruce Fein.

By Bruce Fein

9 minute read

November 25, 2002 | National Law Journal

Creaky Court Criticism

According to reviewer Bruce Fein, 9th Circuit Judge John T. Noonan Jr.'s lively attack of Supreme Court commerce clause jurisprudence is at best anemic and at worst a troublesome attack on Marbury v. Madison.

By Bruce Fein

10 minute read

January 09, 2006 | Law.com

An Unconstitutional 'Cure'

The FCC's paternalistic experiment with banning indecency has been a monumental failure, akin to the fig leaf campaign of the Counter-Reformation, says former commission general counsel Bruce Fein, who maintains that the public has been denied opportunities to view entertaining dramatic compositions. Nothing good has been accomplished in diminishing vulgarities or coarseness in the culture or discourse, he says, adding that sex, nudity and profanity are inescapable elements of the human condition.

By Bruce Fein

5 minute read

January 09, 2006 | New Jersey Law Journal

An Unconstitutional 'Cure'

The Federal Communication's Commission's indecency project should go the way of the Prohibition Amendment.

By Bruce Fein

5 minute read


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