Feb 27 2023 Publication State Court Docket Watch Public records, Excel spreadsheets, and textualism: Kansas Supreme Court affirms the separation of powers Charles Yates Within the American system of government, legislative authority is the sole prerogative of the people’s...
Feb 22 2023 Publication State Court Docket Watch Idaho Supreme Court rejects controversial ethics rule 8.4(g) Daniel Ortner The Idaho Supreme Court recently took the extraordinary step of unanimously rejecting a proposal by...
Feb 14 2023 Publication State Court Docket Watch Montana Supreme Court Preliminarily Enjoins Three Laws Concerning Abortion David J. Chapman In the wake of the return of the abortion rights issue to the states, many...
Feb 13 2023 Publication State Court Docket Watch North Carolina Supreme Court Invalidates Redistricting Map and Voter ID Law Enacted By Legislature Ken Daines, Andrew Pardue, Drew Watkins State courts often play an important role in reviewing and interpreting state laws that govern...
Feb 9 2023 Publication State Court Docket Watch Ohio Supreme Court Holds That the Courts, Not State Agencies, “Say What the Law Is.” Zack Smith In a recent opinion by Justice Patrick DeWine, the Ohio Supreme Court unanimously reaffirmed that...
Feb 3 2023 Publication White Papers 2022 Civil Justice Update Mark A. Behrens White Paper This paper reviews key civil justice issues and changes in 2022. Part I discusses the...
Jan 30 2023 Publication Federalist Society Review Federalist Society Review, Volume 23 Katie McClendon The Federalist Society Review is the legal journal of the Federalist Society. The Review is...
Jan 19 2023 Publication State Court Docket Watch State Court Docket Watch: Young Americans for Liberty v. St. John IV Abigail Smith Alabama Supreme Court revives a challenge to campus speech restrictions. In Young Americans for Liberty at the University of Alabama in Huntsville v. St. John...
Jan 18 2023 Publication State Court Docket Watch State Court Docket Watch: Matthews v. Industrial Commission of Arizona GianCarlo Canaparo Arizona Supreme Court employs corpus linguistics in a search for the original public meaning of a state constitutional provision. How does originalism work with state constitutions? Justice Clint Bolick, writing for the Arizona Supreme...
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...
Public records, Excel spreadsheets, and textualism: Kansas Supreme Court affirms the separation of powers
Charles Yates
Within the American system of government, legislative authority is the sole prerogative of the people’s...
Idaho Supreme Court rejects controversial ethics rule 8.4(g)
Daniel Ortner
The Idaho Supreme Court recently took the extraordinary step of unanimously rejecting a proposal by...
Montana Supreme Court Preliminarily Enjoins Three Laws Concerning Abortion
David J. Chapman
In the wake of the return of the abortion rights issue to the states, many...
North Carolina Supreme Court Invalidates Redistricting Map and Voter ID Law Enacted By Legislature
Ken Daines, Andrew Pardue, Drew Watkins
State courts often play an important role in reviewing and interpreting state laws that govern...
Ohio Supreme Court Holds That the Courts, Not State Agencies, “Say What the Law Is.”
Zack Smith
In a recent opinion by Justice Patrick DeWine, the Ohio Supreme Court unanimously reaffirmed that...
2022 Civil Justice Update
Mark A. Behrens
White Paper
This paper reviews key civil justice issues and changes in 2022. Part I discusses the...
Federalist Society Review, Volume 23
Katie McClendon
The Federalist Society Review is the legal journal of the Federalist Society. The Review is...
State Court Docket Watch: Young Americans for Liberty v. St. John IV
Abigail Smith
Alabama Supreme Court revives a challenge to campus speech restrictions.
In Young Americans for Liberty at the University of Alabama in Huntsville v. St. John...
State Court Docket Watch: Matthews v. Industrial Commission of Arizona
GianCarlo Canaparo
Arizona Supreme Court employs corpus linguistics in a search for the original public meaning of a state constitutional provision.
How does originalism work with state constitutions? Justice Clint Bolick, writing for the Arizona Supreme...
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...