2020

If you are like most people, when you hear the words “administrative law,” you think...

Walmart.com is an e-commerce platform operated by Walmart, Inc. In addition to products offered for...

Just over four years after its enactment, West Virginia’s Right to Work law (the Act)...

In response to the global pandemic caused by COVID-19, local authorities in Texas, like local...

In January 2020, the Oklahoma Supreme Court upheld a challenge under the Oklahoma Constitution to...

In Ladd v. Real Estate Commission,[1] the plaintiff Sarah Ladd was an entrepreneur who used...

A Georgia trial court recently held that the state constitution “does not recognize a right...

In April of this year, the Supreme Court decided Ramos v. Louisiana, holding that the...

Mitchell v. Roberts came before the Utah Supreme Court on certification from the U.S. District...

When should courts defer to an agency’s interpretation of a statute? At the federal level,...

In Bailey v. South Carolina State Election Commission, the Supreme Court of South Carolina, accepting...

On June 12, 2020, the Oregon Supreme Court struck down a preliminary injunction that had...

In May, Wisconsin became the only state to emerge from a gubernatorial “stay-at-home” order by...

The U.S. Supreme Court has long acknowledged that “true threats” are not protected speech under...

The Ohio Supreme Court’s decision in State v. Nettles[1] illustrates what happens when decades-old law...

Most discussions of judicial deference to administrative agencies center on federal doctrines like those established...

Since the November 2018 election of Democrat Laura Kelly as governor of Kansas, the state’s...

When Rafaeli, LLC underpaid its property tax bill by $8.40, the county auctioned off the...

In Fisher v. Hagett and Lay v. Goins, a majority of the Supreme Court of...

In In re State of Texas, the Texas Supreme Court held that a voter’s lack...

Shoplifting and theft costs U.S. retailers $48.9 billion each year, and 30 percent of all...

People who want to challenge a state or federal law for violating their constitutional rights...

In McClay v. Airport Management Services, LLC,[1] the Tennessee Supreme Court upheld the state’s $750,000...

On September 11, 2020, the Supreme Court of Florida unanimously granted Florida State Representative Geraldine...

In Berry v. City of Chicago,[1] the Illinois Supreme Court held that plaintiffs alleging an...

Pennsylvania, like most states in 2020, has seen contested election litigation. In Pennsylvania Democratic Party...

Background Wisconsin was one of the few swing states in 2016 and was considered a...

Correctional facilities across the United States house and employ large numbers of people. Keeping these...

I. Introduction In 2018, Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker and Attorney General Brad Schimel were unseated...

In the wake of Michigan’s first positive tests for the coronavirus, Governor Gretchen Whitmer declared...

Can law enforcement compel you to unlock your smartphone to access your texts, phone logs,...

When does uncertainty regarding enforcement standards constitute an impermissible delegation of legislative authority such that...

As COVID-19 spread across our country, many jurisdictions struggled with how to protect those in...

Background In early March, South Carolina’s Governor, Henry McMaster, issued a State of Emergency following...

In Texas v. Hollins, the Supreme Court of Texas unanimously enjoined the Harris County Clerk...

In League of United Latin American Citizens of Iowa v. Pate (LULAC v. Pate), the Iowa...

Pennsylvania’s highest court has extinguished the automobile exception to the warrant requirement. No warrant is...

Michigan’s Supreme Court confirmed that the state’s constitution permits reimbursement to religious schools for costs...

At 4:00 a.m. on February 17, 2018, Frederick Weber’s wife called the police to report...

Background On March 25, 2020, in response to the COVID-19 pandemic, Wisconsin Governor Tony Evers...

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Note from the Editor: The Federalist Society takes no positions on particular legal and public...

In an effort to increase dialogue about state court jurisprudence, the Federalist Society presents State...