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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...
Missouri Court Upholds State School Funding Formula
In 2004, Plaintiffs, which include two not-for-profit education advocacy groups, 271 out of 524 Missouri...
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...
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A holding that Alabama’s largest county has been collecting an occupational tax repealed by the...
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...
Georgia Supreme Court and Vaccine Claims
In American Home Products Corp. v. Ferrari,1 the Supreme Court of Georgia held that the...
New York Court Weakens Product Liability Defenses
In Passante v. Agway Consumer Products, the plaintiff, an employee of a loading company, was...
ABA-NCSC Summit Addresses Challenges to Fairness, Impartiality of State Courts
In May, delegations from thirty-seven states and territories participated in a national summit held in...
Proposals for Changing Judicial Selection in Wisconsin
After three years in a row of vigorously contested state supreme court races, numerous proposals...
California: Unfair Competition Law
The consumer protection statutory scheme known as the Unfair Competition Law (UCL) has been in...
“Now” Is the Time: U.S. Supreme Court Rules on Rhode Island Indian Land Case
The U.S. Supreme Court recently ended a decade-old skirmish in the 100-year legal battle between...
Criminal Confessions and Police Tactics: TN Supreme Court Tosses Murder Conviction under Miranda
In a unanimous decision in January, the Tennessee Supreme Court suppressed two confessions made by...
Delaware Chancery Court Addresses E-Discovery
The Delaware Court of Chancery issued four decisions in late May and early June clarifying...
Missouri Supreme Court Upholds State’s Worker’s Compensation Scheme
In 1926, the Missouri legislature enacted the Workers’ Compensation System, which entitled workers to compensation...
California Supreme Court to (Re)Consider the Permissibility of Contingency Fee Agreements Between Governments and Private Counsel in Public Nuisance Actions
In July 2008, the California Supreme Court agreed to review a Court of Appeal case...
Rhode Island Supreme Court Overturns Lead Paint Judgment
In July 2008, the Rhode Island Supreme Court overturned a jury verdict imposing liability against...
The Rise and Fall of Lead Paint Litigation in Ohio
Over the last four years, Ohio has experienced a significant amount of activity related to...
A Report on the Political Balance of the Tennessee Plan
There is an ongoing debate about the method by which Tennessee selects its appellate judges. Professors...
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...
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...
Judicial Funding Mandates Related to Education Sharply Decline
Twenty years ago a new kind of educational lawsuit designed to ensure “adequacy of funding”...