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Originally Posted by Jeff Lebowski
Any more lawyers want to step in and show off for a minute?
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Stand aside, sonny. Actually, I'm with Dan on this. Most of the cases have little effect on my daily business practice, but I can hold forth for about thirty seconds on most of them. Coincidentally, my son (a junior in high school) came home and told me they discussed
Lochner in his Law and Society class, and I feigned familiarity.
A more obscure Supreme Court case, but one of my sentimental favorites because of the way Rex Lee presented it, was
Wickard v. Filburn, a commerce clause case in which a farmer with a very small farm was prosecuted under an agricultural controls act. He planted a couple of extra acres of corn or wheat for his own use, but the Court ruled he was subject to the act because if he hadn't grown his own grain, he would have bought it in the open marked and thus affected interstate commerce.
Please don't Wikipedia this case and tell me I'm way off, as I'd like to think I learned something from Rex, and my clients don't give a crap.