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Washington Supreme Court Upholds School Funding Structure: Disparities in School Employee Pay Not Unconstitutional
On November 12, 2009, the Washington State Supreme Court unanimously declined to declare as unconstitutional...
Montana Supreme Court: Physician-Assisted Suicide Is an End-of-Life Option
On the last day of 2009, Montana’s Supreme Court handed down its ruling in Baxter v....
West Virginia Court Expands COPPERWELD Doctrine
In the 1984 case Copperweld Corp. v. Independence Tube Corp.,1 the United States Supreme Court forever altered...
CAPERTON Decision Prompts Changes to Judicial Recusal Standards and Procedures
In June of 2009, the Supreme Court decided the case Caperton v. A. T. Massey Coal...
A Survey of California Furlough Lawsuits
The current economic crisis is forcing states to adopt creative means of balancing their budgets....
A Recent History of Medical Malpractice and Civil Justice Reform in Illinois: The Five Year Wait for the Supreme Court to Decide the Fate of Reform in LEBRON V. GOTTLIEB MEMORIAL HOSPITAL
Recently, the Illinois Supreme Court ruled on the validity of the bipartisan Medical Malpractice Reform...
Missouri Court Upholds State School Funding Formula
In 2004, Plaintiffs, which include two not-for-profit education advocacy groups, 271 out of 524 Missouri...
New Hampshire Family Court Orders Girl to Public School over Home Schooling Preference of Mother
In a case that is of great consequence to education law, as well as to...
Georgia Supreme Court and Vaccine Claims
In American Home Products Corp. v. Ferrari,1 the Supreme Court of Georgia held that the...
After Change in Personnel, Michigan Supreme Court Reverses Itself in Major Insurance Decision
In 2008, the Michigan Supreme Court, by a 4-3 majority, issued an opinion in United...
Alabama Courts Will Not Second-Guess Legislature’s Voting Procedures
A holding that Alabama’s largest county has been collecting an occupational tax repealed by the...
North Carolina High Court Is First to Overturn Restriction on Felony Gun Ownership
The United States Supreme Court’s 2008 decision in District of Columbia v. Heller1 focused national...
Washington Supreme Court Upholds At-Will Employment: Employees Who Object to “Bad Boss” Are Not Protected from Termination
The Washington State Supreme Court narrowly affirmed an employer’s right to terminate employees who disagree...
New York Court Weakens Product Liability Defenses
In Passante v. Agway Consumer Products, the plaintiff, an employee of a loading company, was...
Judicial Funding Mandates Related to Education Sharply Decline
Twenty years ago a new kind of educational lawsuit designed to ensure “adequacy of funding”...
Key Issues for Pennsylvanians: What is at Stake with the Pennsylvania Supreme Court
Pennsylvanians will soon elect a new justice to serve a ten-year term on the Pennsylvania...
Dollars and Sense: Understanding the New Jersey Supreme Court’s Role in Education and Housing
The State of New Jersey has experienced increasing economic difficulties in recent years. Its state...
Proposals for Changing Judicial Selection in Wisconsin
After three years in a row of vigorously contested state supreme court races, numerous proposals...