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State Court Docket Watch: Berry v. City of Chicago
In Berry v. City of Chicago,[1] the Illinois Supreme Court held that plaintiffs alleging an...
State Court Docket Watch: Thompson v. DeSantis
On September 11, 2020, the Supreme Court of Florida unanimously granted Florida State Representative Geraldine...
State Court Docket Watch: McClay v. Airport Management Services, LLC
In McClay v. Airport Management Services, LLC,[1] the Tennessee Supreme Court upheld the state’s $750,000...
State Court Docket Watch: State v. Arevalo
People who want to challenge a state or federal law for violating their constitutional rights...
State Court Docket Watch: Frlekin v. Apple Inc.
Shoplifting and theft costs U.S. retailers $48.9 billion each year, and 30 percent of all...
State Court Docket Watch: In Re State of Texas
In In re State of Texas, the Texas Supreme Court held that a voter’s lack...
State Court Docket Watch: Fisher v. Hagett and Lay v. Goins
In Fisher v. Hagett and Lay v. Goins, a majority of the Supreme Court of...
State Court Docket Watch: Rafaeli, LLC v. Oakland County
When Rafaeli, LLC underpaid its property tax bill by $8.40, the county auctioned off the...
State Court Docket Watch: Kelly v. Legislative Coordinating Council
Since the November 2018 election of Democrat Laura Kelly as governor of Kansas, the state’s...
State Court Docket Watch: HWCC-Tunica, Inc. v. Mississippi Dep’t of Revenue
Most discussions of judicial deference to administrative agencies center on federal doctrines like those established...
State Court Docket Watch: State v. Nettles
The Ohio Supreme Court’s decision in State v. Nettles[1] illustrates what happens when decades-old law...
Criminal Law Update: A Survey of State Law Changes in 2019
Note from the Editor: The Federalist Society takes no positions on particular legal and public...
State Court Docket Watch: People v. R.D.
The U.S. Supreme Court has long acknowledged that “true threats” are not protected speech under...
State Court Docket Watch: Wisconsin Legislature v. Palm
In May, Wisconsin became the only state to emerge from a gubernatorial “stay-at-home” order by...
State Docket Watch: Elkhorn Baptist Church v. Brown
On June 12, 2020, the Oregon Supreme Court struck down a preliminary injunction that had...
State Court Docket Watch: Bailey v. South Carolina State Election Commission
In Bailey v. South Carolina State Election Commission, the Supreme Court of South Carolina, accepting...
State Court Docket Watch: Myers v. Yamato Kogyo Co.
When should courts defer to an agency’s interpretation of a statute? At the federal level,...
State Court Docket Watch: Mitchell v. Roberts
Mitchell v. Roberts came before the Utah Supreme Court on certification from the U.S. District...