Dec 16 2022 Publication State Court Docket Watch State Court Docket Watch: Tennessee v. Deberry Zack Smith Tennessee Supreme Court grapples with whether no penalty is the same thing as a "lesser penalty." Does a state statute only mean what it says and nothing more? In a...
Dec 16 2022 Publication Federalist Society Review Measuring and Evaluating Public Responses to Religious Rights Rulings Creighton Roland Meland, Stephen Cranney Federalist Society Review, Volume 23 The story of Jack Phillips and his cake shop—Masterpiece Cakeshop—is by now familiar. Jack Phillips...
Dec 16 2022 Publication State Court Docket Watch State Court Docket Watch: Ohio v. O'Malley Anthony Sanders Ohio Supreme Court refuses to adopt a standard for addressing excessive fines claims. In 2019, in Timbs v. Indiana, the U.S. Supreme Court declared that the Excessive Fines...
Dec 15 2022 Publication Federalist Society Review The Meaning of "Regulate Commerce" to the Constitution's Ratifiers Robert G. Natelson Federalist Society Review, Volume 23 I. Previous Scholarship[1] A. Views of “Commerce”: Traditional and “Mega” The Constitution grants Congress power...
Dec 14 2022 Publication State Court Docket Watch State Court Docket Watch: In the Interest of C.G. GianCarlo Canaparo Does is violate sex offenders' First and Eighth Amendment rights to refuse to let them change their legal name? A recent case from the Supreme Court of Wisconsin, In the Interest of C.G.,[1] raised...
Dec 14 2022 Publication State Court Docket Watch Arizona Free Enterprise v. Hobbs Timothy Sandefur Arizona Supreme Court grapples with exceptions to the state constitution's referendum power The Arizona Constitution, written in 1910, includes several features traceable to the reform efforts...
Nov 21 2022 Publication State Court Docket Watch State Court Docket Watch: NC NAACP v. Moore Austin Cromack Supreme Court of North Carolina says two constitutional amendments can be invalidated due to gerrymandering In North Carolina State Conference of National Association for the Advancement of Colored People...
Nov 15 2022 Publication State Court Docket Watch State Court Docket Watch: Texas Department of Health v. Crown Cory Liu SCOTX holds that ban on manufacture and processing of hemp doesn't violate the due-course clause of the state constitution In Texas Department of State Health Services v. Crown Distributing LLC, the Texas Supreme Court...
Nov 8 2022 Publication Federalist Society Review Bruen’s Preliminary Preservation of the Second Amendment Nelson Lund Federalist Society Review, Volume 23 A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the...
Nov 8 2022 Publication State Court Docket Watch State Court Docket Watch: McLinko v. Pennsylvania Andrew Pardue, Drew Watkins Pennsylvania Supreme Court upholds 2019 law permitting universal mail-in voting The U.S. Supreme Court’s recent decision to hear arguments in Moore v. Harper has garnered...
State Court Docket Watch: Tennessee v. Deberry
Zack Smith
Tennessee Supreme Court grapples with whether no penalty is the same thing as a "lesser penalty."
Does a state statute only mean what it says and nothing more? In a...
Measuring and Evaluating Public Responses to Religious Rights Rulings
Creighton Roland Meland, Stephen Cranney
Federalist Society Review, Volume 23
The story of Jack Phillips and his cake shop—Masterpiece Cakeshop—is by now familiar. Jack Phillips...
State Court Docket Watch: Ohio v. O'Malley
Anthony Sanders
Ohio Supreme Court refuses to adopt a standard for addressing excessive fines claims.
In 2019, in Timbs v. Indiana, the U.S. Supreme Court declared that the Excessive Fines...
The Meaning of "Regulate Commerce" to the Constitution's Ratifiers
Robert G. Natelson
Federalist Society Review, Volume 23
I. Previous Scholarship[1] A. Views of “Commerce”: Traditional and “Mega” The Constitution grants Congress power...
State Court Docket Watch: In the Interest of C.G.
GianCarlo Canaparo
Does is violate sex offenders' First and Eighth Amendment rights to refuse to let them change their legal name?
A recent case from the Supreme Court of Wisconsin, In the Interest of C.G.,[1] raised...
Arizona Free Enterprise v. Hobbs
Timothy Sandefur
Arizona Supreme Court grapples with exceptions to the state constitution's referendum power
The Arizona Constitution, written in 1910, includes several features traceable to the reform efforts...
State Court Docket Watch: NC NAACP v. Moore
Austin Cromack
Supreme Court of North Carolina says two constitutional amendments can be invalidated due to gerrymandering
In North Carolina State Conference of National Association for the Advancement of Colored People...
State Court Docket Watch: Texas Department of Health v. Crown
Cory Liu
SCOTX holds that ban on manufacture and processing of hemp doesn't violate the due-course clause of the state constitution
In Texas Department of State Health Services v. Crown Distributing LLC, the Texas Supreme Court...
Bruen’s Preliminary Preservation of the Second Amendment
Nelson Lund
Federalist Society Review, Volume 23
A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the...
State Court Docket Watch: McLinko v. Pennsylvania
Andrew Pardue, Drew Watkins
Pennsylvania Supreme Court upholds 2019 law permitting universal mail-in voting
The U.S. Supreme Court’s recent decision to hear arguments in Moore v. Harper has garnered...