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State Court Docket Watch: Matthews v. Industrial Commission of Arizona
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
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
In Mills v. Arizona Board of Technical Registration,[1] the Arizona Supreme Court considered whether...
State Court Docket Watch: Ritter v. 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
On April 27, 2022, the New York State Court of Appeals invalidated the Congressional and...
State Court Docket Watch: Tennessee v. Deberry
Does a state statute only mean what it says and nothing more? In a...
State Court Docket Watch: Ohio v. O'Malley
In 2019, in Timbs v. Indiana, the U.S. Supreme Court declared that the Excessive Fines...
State Court Docket Watch: In the Interest of C.G.
A recent case from the Supreme Court of Wisconsin, In the Interest of C.G.,[1] raised...
Arizona Free Enterprise v. Hobbs
The Arizona Constitution, written in 1910, includes several features traceable to the reform efforts...
State Court Docket Watch: NC NAACP v. Moore
In North Carolina State Conference of National Association for the Advancement of Colored People...
State Court Docket Watch: Texas Department of Health v. Crown
In Texas Department of State Health Services v. Crown Distributing LLC, the Texas Supreme Court...
State Court Docket Watch: McLinko v. Pennsylvania
The U.S. Supreme Court’s recent decision to hear arguments in Moore v. Harper has garnered significant...
State Court Docket Watch: Bauserman v. Unemployment Insurance Agency
Late last term, the United States Supreme Court all but eliminated the ability of individuals...
State Court Docket Watch: People v. Parks
Under Michigan law, adults who commit the offense of first-degree murder are subject to a...
State Court Docket Watch: Wisconsin Manufacturers v. Evers
In a 4-3 decision by Justice Rebecca Frank Dallet, the Wisconsin Supreme Court held that...
State Court Docket Watch: El Koussa v. Attorney General
In El Koussa v. Attorney General, the Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts held that...
State Court Docket Watch: Roberts v. Arizona
Important issues of federalism and administrative law almost always boil down to one simple yet...
State Court Docket Watch: Planned Parenthood of the Heartland v. Reynolds
In Planned Parenthood of the Heartland, Inc. v. Reynolds (Planned Parenthood III),[1] the Supreme Court...