Associate Dean Amar Comments on Increased Use of Lawsuits to Challenge State Budget for Sacramento Bee
Associate Dean Vikram Amar commented for the Sacramento Bee on the increasing use of legal challenges to attack the California budget, including those pending against the budget plan approved by California legislators and Governor Jerry Brown in June. Such challenges are a routine occurrence in times of budget cuts, the article notes.
"When you're losing money that goes to your program, when cuts are deep, you're going to have every incentive to use every possible way to fight them, including lawsuits," Amar said.
Vikram Amar, Associate Dean of Academic Affairs and Professor of Law with UC Davis School of Law, is a national authority in the fields of constitutional law, civil procedure, criminal procedure, and remedies. His biweekly column for Justia.com, a leading provider of online legal information, centers on his expertise in constitutional law.