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35 Creighton L. Rev. 693 (2001-2002)
Scheidler Meets Morrison (At the Entrance to a Health Clinic)

handle is hein.journals/creigh35 and id is 703 raw text is: SCHEIDLER MEETS MORRISON (AT THE ENTRANCE TO A HEALTH CLINIC) STEPHAN E. OESTREICHER, JR.t INTRODUCTION .......................................... 693 I. Constitutional Background: Two Revolutionary Commerce Clause Cases ............................ 698 A. United States v. Lopez ........................... 699 B. United States v. Morrison ....................... 700 II. Statutory Background: Civil RICO ................... 703 A. Confirming the Omniscience of § 1964(c): Sedima, S.P.R.L. v. Imrex Co ................... 703 B. Extending § 1964(c)'s Reach to Non-Economic Conduct: National Organization for Women, Inc. v. Scheidler ................................. 705 III. A Challenge to Civil RICO in the Anti-Abortion Protest Context ................. ................... 707 A. Federal Regulation of Anti-Abortion Protest Under Lopez .................................... 708 B. Federal Regulation of Anti-Abortion Protest Under M orrison ................................. 710 IV. What Can Be Done about § 1964(c)? ................. 717 A. Congressional Amendment ...................... 717 B. Invalidation ..................................... 720 CON CLU SION ............................................. 726 INTRODUCTION During my childhood, say, roughly [bjetween the end of the Chatterley ban [aInd the Beatles' first LP, a common re- sponse to overreaction was don't make a federal case out of it. -Philip Frickey1 t Law Clerk to the Honorable Karen LeCraft Henderson, Circuit Judge, United States Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit. Once again, I owe the largest debt of grati- tude to Salima Parmar, whose patience never seems to falter. I thank Nancy King for essential comments on an earlier draft. Also, I would like to make clear at the outset that the views expressed in this Article are my own and are not to be imputed to the federal judiciary or any member thereof. 1. Philip P. Frickey, The Fool on the Hill: Congressional Findings, Constitutional Adjudication, and United States v. Lopez, 46 CAsE W. RES. L. REV. 695 (1996) (quoting PHILIP LARKIN, Annus Mirabilis, in COLLECTED POEMS 167, 167 (Anthony Thwaite, ed., 1988) (referring to the year 1963)).

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