Jan 18 2023 Publication State Court Docket Watch State Court Docket Watch: Rouch World v. Department of Civil Rights Caleb Dalton Michigan Supreme Court rules that discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation is prohibited by the state's civil rights law. In Rouch World, LLC v. Department of Civil Rights, the Michigan Supreme Court expounded on...
Dec 23 2022 Publication State Court Docket Watch State Court Docket Watch: Mills v. Arizona Board of Technical Registration Nate Curtisi Arizona Supreme Court clarifies the doctrine of administrative exhaustion in Arizona In Mills v. Arizona Board of Technical Registration,[1] the Arizona Supreme Court considered whether...
Dec 23 2022 Publication State Court Docket Watch State Court Docket Watch: Ritter v. Oklahoma Charles Yates A Significant Separation of Powers Decision from the Supreme Court of Oklahoma The drafters of the Oklahoma Constitution—“[f]earing excessive power in the hands of one individual”—strictly...
Dec 23 2022 Publication State Court Docket Watch State Court Docket Watch: Harkenrider v. Hochul Joseph T. Burns NY Court of Appeals rules that procedures in state constitution were violated in enactment of redistricting plans On April 27, 2022, the New York State Court of Appeals invalidated the Congressional and...
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...
State Court Docket Watch: Rouch World v. Department of Civil Rights
Caleb Dalton
Michigan Supreme Court rules that discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation is prohibited by the state's civil rights law.
In Rouch World, LLC v. Department of Civil Rights, the Michigan Supreme Court expounded on...
State Court Docket Watch: Mills v. Arizona Board of Technical Registration
Nate Curtisi
Arizona Supreme Court clarifies the doctrine of administrative exhaustion in Arizona
In Mills v. Arizona Board of Technical Registration,[1] the Arizona Supreme Court considered whether...
State Court Docket Watch: Ritter v. Oklahoma
Charles Yates
A Significant Separation of Powers Decision from the Supreme Court of Oklahoma
The drafters of the Oklahoma Constitution—“[f]earing excessive power in the hands of one individual”—strictly...
State Court Docket Watch: Harkenrider v. Hochul
Joseph T. Burns
NY Court of Appeals rules that procedures in state constitution were violated in enactment of redistricting plans
On April 27, 2022, the New York State Court of Appeals invalidated the Congressional and...
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...