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North Carolina Supreme Court Upholds State-Funded Private School Scholarships For Economically Disadvantaged Students
In Hart v. State,1 the North Carolina Supreme Court considered whether the Opportunity Scholarship Program (“OSP”),2 which provided...
West Virginia Rejects Wrongful Conduct Rule on Comparative Fault Grounds
In the latest round of litigation related to prescription drug abuse in Appalachia, the Supreme...
Tennessee Trial Court Strikes Down State’s Tort Reform Act
In the latest battle on the state level between the plaintiffs’ and defense bars, a...
Indiana Supreme Court Upholds the Right to Work: Rebuffs an Involuntary Servitude Challenge
In the past few years, four rust-belt states—Ohio, Michigan, Indiana and Wisconsin—have enacted “Right to...
Florida Supreme Court Finds Expectation of Privacy for Third Party Disclosures
In Tracey v. Florida, the Florida Supreme Court recently determined that the Fourth Amendment requires police...
Felix v. Ganley Chevrolet, Inc.
When the Ohio Supreme Court interprets state class-action law, it often relies on decisions from...
2014 Civil Justice Update
This paper recaps important legal developments in the civil justice movement that occurred in 2014....
Two Models of Public Pensions in State Supreme Court Decisions
In this paper, Thomas M. Johnson, Jr. describes two legal theories of public pensions that...