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State Court Docket Watch: Indiana Department of Natural Resources v. Kevin Prosser
If you are like most people, when you hear the words “administrative law,” you think...
State Court Docket Watch: Normand v. Walmart.com
Walmart.com is an e-commerce platform operated by Walmart, Inc. In addition to products offered for...
State Court Docket Watch: Morrisey v. West Virginia AFL-CIO
Just over four years after its enactment, West Virginia’s Right to Work law (the Act)...
State Court Docket Watch: In re Salon a la Mode, et al
In response to the global pandemic caused by COVID-19, local authorities in Texas, like local...
State Court Docket Watch: Institute For Responsible Alcohol Policy v. Oklahoma ex rel. Alcohol Beverage Laws Enforcement Comm.
In January 2020, the Oklahoma Supreme Court upheld a challenge under the Oklahoma Constitution to...
State Court Docket Watch: Ladd v. Real Estate Commission
In Ladd v. Real Estate Commission,[1] the plaintiff Sarah Ladd was an entrepreneur who used...
State Court Docket Watch: Jackson v. Raffensberger
A Georgia trial court recently held that the state constitution “does not recognize a right...
State Court Docket Watch: The Effect of Ramos v. Louisiana
In April of this year, the Supreme Court decided Ramos v. Louisiana, holding that the...
State Court Docket Watch: Mitchell v. Roberts
Mitchell v. Roberts came before the Utah Supreme Court on certification from the U.S. District...
State Court Docket Watch: Myers v. Yamato Kogyo Co.
When should courts defer to an agency’s interpretation of a statute? At the federal level,...
State Court Docket Watch: Bailey v. South Carolina State Election Commission
In Bailey v. South Carolina State Election Commission, the Supreme Court of South Carolina, accepting...
State Docket Watch: Elkhorn Baptist Church v. Brown
On June 12, 2020, the Oregon Supreme Court struck down a preliminary injunction that had...
State Court Docket Watch: Wisconsin Legislature v. Palm
In May, Wisconsin became the only state to emerge from a gubernatorial “stay-at-home” order by...
State Court Docket Watch: People v. R.D.
The U.S. Supreme Court has long acknowledged that “true threats” are not protected speech under...
State Court Docket Watch: State v. Nettles
The Ohio Supreme Court’s decision in State v. Nettles[1] illustrates what happens when decades-old law...
State Court Docket Watch: HWCC-Tunica, Inc. v. Mississippi Dep’t of Revenue
Most discussions of judicial deference to administrative agencies center on federal doctrines like those established...
State Court Docket Watch: Kelly v. Legislative Coordinating Council
Since the November 2018 election of Democrat Laura Kelly as governor of Kansas, the state’s...
State Court Docket Watch: Rafaeli, LLC v. Oakland County
When Rafaeli, LLC underpaid its property tax bill by $8.40, the county auctioned off the...
State Court Docket Watch: Fisher v. Hagett and Lay v. Goins
In Fisher v. Hagett and Lay v. Goins, a majority of the Supreme Court of...
State Court Docket Watch: In Re State of Texas
In In re State of Texas, the Texas Supreme Court held that a voter’s lack...
State Court Docket Watch: Frlekin v. Apple Inc.
Shoplifting and theft costs U.S. retailers $48.9 billion each year, and 30 percent of all...
State Court Docket Watch: State v. Arevalo
People who want to challenge a state or federal law for violating their constitutional rights...
State Court Docket Watch: McClay v. Airport Management Services, LLC
In McClay v. Airport Management Services, LLC,[1] the Tennessee Supreme Court upheld the state’s $750,000...
State Court Docket Watch: Thompson v. DeSantis
On September 11, 2020, the Supreme Court of Florida unanimously granted Florida State Representative Geraldine...
State Court Docket Watch: Berry v. City of Chicago
In Berry v. City of Chicago,[1] the Illinois Supreme Court held that plaintiffs alleging an...
State Court Docket Watch: Pennsylvania Democratic Party v. Boockvar
Pennsylvania, like most states in 2020, has seen contested election litigation. In Pennsylvania Democratic Party...
State Court Docket Watch: Hawkins v. Wisconsin Elections Commission
Background Wisconsin was one of the few swing states in 2016 and was considered a...
State Court Docket Watch: Foster v. Commissioner of Correction
Correctional facilities across the United States house and employ large numbers of people. Keeping these...
State Court Docket Watch: Service Employees International Union, Local 1 v. Vos
I. Introduction In 2018, Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker and Attorney General Brad Schimel were unseated...
State Court Docket Watch: Midwest Institute of Health, PLLC v. Governor of Michigan
In the wake of Michigan’s first positive tests for the coronavirus, Governor Gretchen Whitmer declared...
State Court Docket Watch: State of New Jersey v. Robert Andrews
Can law enforcement compel you to unlock your smartphone to access your texts, phone logs,...
State Court Docket Watch: State v. Harris
When does uncertainty regarding enforcement standards constitute an impermissible delegation of legislative authority such that...
State Court Docket Watch: In Re Individuals in Custody of the State of Hawai’i
As COVID-19 spread across our country, many jurisdictions struggled with how to protect those in...
State Court Docket Watch: Adams v. McMaster
Background In early March, South Carolina’s Governor, Henry McMaster, issued a State of Emergency following...
State Court Docket Watch: Texas v. Hollins
In Texas v. Hollins, the Supreme Court of Texas unanimously enjoined the Harris County Clerk...
State Court Docket Watch: League of United Latin American Citizens of Iowa v. Pate
In League of United Latin American Citizens of Iowa v. Pate (LULAC v. Pate), the Iowa...
State Court Docket Watch: Commonwealth of Pennsylvania v. Alexander
Pennsylvania’s highest court has extinguished the automobile exception to the warrant requirement. No warrant is...
State Court Docket Watch: Council of Organizations and Others for Education About Parochiaid v. State of Michigan
Michigan’s Supreme Court confirmed that the state’s constitution permits reimbursement to religious schools for costs...
State Court Docket Watch: State of Ohio v. Weber
At 4:00 a.m. on February 17, 2018, Frederick Weber’s wife called the police to report...
State Court Docket Watch: Jefferson v. Dane County, Wisconsin
Background On March 25, 2020, in response to the COVID-19 pandemic, Wisconsin Governor Tony Evers...
Criminal Law Update: A Survey of State Law Changes in 2019
Note from the Editor: The Federalist Society takes no positions on particular legal and public...
2020 Civil Justice Update
Note from the Editor: The Federalist Society takes no positions on particular legal and public...
State Court Docket Watch: 2020 Edition
In an effort to increase dialogue about state court jurisprudence, the Federalist Society presents State...