2018

Ohio    State ex rel. McCann v. Delaware County Board of Elections   On first...

West Virginia   State ex rel. Blankenship v. Warner   After Don Blankenship lost his...

California     John Doe v. University of Southern California   There are no real...

On Monday, the U.S. Supreme Court denied certiorari in SWC, LLC v. Herr, ending a...

The Indiana Supreme Court unanimously held that Indiana’s blocked-crossing statute is expressly preempted by the...

Is the Supreme Court of the United States set to expand First Amendment protection for...

In State ex rel. Cooper v. Berger, No. 52PA17-2 (N.C. Jan. 26, 2018), the Supreme Court...

After Don Blankenship lost his primary bid to be the Republican candidate in the 2018...

In 2012, Colorado’s Republican voters faced a choice in the campaign for Colorado University’s Board...

In League of Women Voters v. Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania determined that...

In Gunderson v. State of Indiana, the Indiana Supreme Court, unanimously, held that 1.) Indiana owns...

School choice has been a hot political issue this year, and now it is firing...

Texas’s employment discrimination statute (the Texas Commission on Human Rights Act, codified in the Texas...

In Maine Senate v. Secretary of State, the Maine Supreme Judicial Court (referred to as the...

May the government force a Democrat to make signs for a Republican politician, a gay...

In State of Alaska v. Alaska Democratic Party, the Supreme Court of Alaska affirmed a lower...

Are concerns over climate change sufficient to prevent all new oil and gas development in...

On May 25, the Iowa Supreme Court issued an opinion in the case In the Matter...

Across the country, conservatives and libertarians are making it a priority to roll back the...

One of this year’s most acclaimed films, Little Pink House, has resurrected old wounds from the...

On July 30, 2018, the Michigan Supreme Court in Citizens Protecting Michigan’s Constitution v. Secretary of...

 Jessie Livell Phillips shot and killed his wife, Erica Phillips, on February 27, 2009. Testimony...

Once again California has moved ahead of other states in expanding exposure to tort liability,...

Article 5, section 20 of the Arkansas Constitution declares that “[t]he State of Arkansas shall...

After interning, Walter Relerford interviewed for a position and continued sending emails and phone calls...

The “California Rule” as it has come to be known, was set forth in the...

The separation of powers between executive and legislative branches is an important and central feature...

In Electronic Classroom of Tomorrow v. Ohio Department of Education, the Ohio Supreme Court held that...

Preterm-Cleveland, Inc., v. Kasich,[1] establishes two important issues of Ohio constitutional law.  First, a litigant who wishes...

Unlike our federal structure of government, which places the legislative power exclusively in the hands...

With certain limited exceptions, the Oklahoma Supreme Court has in the past followed the U.S....

“A frequent recurrence to fundamental principles is absolutely necessary to preserve the blessings of liberty.”  So...

Does a passenger traveling with the owner of a private vehicle have a reasonable expectation...

The Washington Supreme Court issued decisions in two cases addressing procedural mandates of the state...

In an 8-0 decision on June 7, 2018, the Mississippi Supreme Court announced that it...

Suppose a police officer takes cash from you saying it is being forfeited but that...

This lawsuit, now pending appeal to Washington’s intermediate appellate court, seeks to enforce a constitutional...

Massachusetts law bans for-profit corporations and other business entities from contributing to political candidates and...

Why should a barber have to graduate high school? Barbers cut hair. They don’t need...

This paper is the first in a series of papers commissioned by the Federalist Society...

This paper is the second in a series of papers commissioned by the Federalist Society on...

Note from the Editor: The Federalist Society takes seriously its responsibility as a non-partisan institution...