Constitutional Accountability Center chooses the best cases to bring our ideas about the Constitution into court and secure victories in the U.S. Supreme Court, state supreme courts, and federal courts of appeal that move the law closer to the text and history of our Constitution.

Recently, CAC has filed briefs in the following cases:

Shelby County v. Holder: On December 8, 2011, CAC filed a brief in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit in Shelby County v. Holder.

Blueford v. Arkansas: On December 2, 2011, CAC filed an amicus curiae brief in the Supreme Court arguing that the Double Jeopardy Clause of the Fifth Amendment, applied to the States through the Fourteenth Amendment, does not permit the government to subject a criminal defendant to a second trial for the same serious charges of which a jury has acquitted him, simply because the jury deadlocked on a lesser-included offense.

National Meat Association v. Harris: On October 11, 2011, CAC and our co-counsel, the law firm of Dewey & LeBoeuf, filed an amici curiae brief in the Supreme Court defending a California law prohibiting the slaughter of non-ambulatory livestock against a federal preemption challenge brought by the National Meat Association.

Coleman v. Maryland Court of Appeals: On September 27, 2011, CAC, along with co-counsel Skadden, Arps, filed an amicus curiae brief in the Supreme Court supporting the petitioner, Daniel Coleman.

Seven-Sky v. Holder: On July 5, 2011, CAC filed an amicus curiae brief in the United States Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit, defending the constitutionality of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act.

U.S. Department of Health & Human Services v. Florida: On April 8, 2011 CAC filed a brief in the United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit on behalf of a bipartisan group of 154 state legislators from 26 states, defending the constitutionality of the historic health care reform law and supporting the government’s appeal of District Judge Roger Vinson’s January 31, 2011 ruling inFlorida v. HHS.

Farina v. Nokia, Inc.: On March 28, 2011, CAC filed an amicus curiae brief in the Supreme Court in support of the petition for a writ of certiorari in Farina v. Nokia.

Virginia ex rel. Cuccinelli v. Sebelius: On March 7, 2011, CAC filed a brief in the Fourth Circuit in Virginia ex rel. Cuccinelli v. Sebelius in support of the constitutionality of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act.

Perry v. Schwarzenegger: On October 25, CAC filed an amicus brief in the Ninth Circuit case of Perry v. Schawarzenegger in support of the Constitutionally protected right to marry a person of one’s choosing under the Fourteenth Amendment.

United States v. State of Arizona: On September 30,  CAC filed a brief in the case of U.S. v. Arizona in support of the United States’ lawsuit challenging Arizona S.B. 1070.  This controversial law seeks to supplant the federal government in enforcing immigration laws in Arizona.