2021

Note from the Editor: The author of this article, Timothy Sandefur, filed an amicus brief...

On December 31, 2020, the Florida Supreme Court prospectively amended Florida Rule of Civil Procedure...

Presently, there is much uncertainty in Sixth Amendment Confrontation Clause jurisprudence in light of differences in tone...

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On February 19, the Iowa Supreme Court amended the state rules of civil and criminal...

As society grapples with the evolving nature of the COVID-19 pandemic, public policy disagreements about...

During the COVID-19 pandemic, the governor of New Mexico issued a series of public health...

On August 30, 2021, the Virginia Supreme Court issued its decision in Loudoun County School...

In Wilson v. City of Columbia,[1] the South Carolina Supreme Court held that a city...

An Eight-Year Battle The Indiana Supreme Court has considered the state’s use of civil asset...

In its recent opinion in Barnett v. Jones,[1] the Alabama Supreme Court applied textual rules...

On May 23, 2017, Kenneth Humphrey, a 66-year-old four-strike offender under California law,[1] followed a...

Under Seattle’s Traffic Code, a vehicle may not be parked on a city street for...

On November 10, 2021, the Washington Supreme Court handed the state legislature a win and...

On October 21, 2021, the Illinois Supreme Court struck down two Cook County gun and...

In Oklahoma ex rel. Hunter v. Johnson & Johnson, the Oklahoma Supreme Court overturned a...

On September 23, 2021, the Washington Supreme Court decided State v. Haag and vacated the...

On December 10, 2021, the Pennsylvania Supreme Court unanimously affirmed,[1] on expedited direct appeal, a...

In Justice v. West Virginia AFL-CIO, the West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals, the state’s...

Most are familiar with the United States Senate’s “advice and consent” role in confirming Executive...

Docket Watch: Smith v. Isakson The right to a trial by jury has been a...

In 2001, in Bartnicki v. Vopper, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that a third party...

 In December 2021, a unanimous Nevada Supreme Court determined in Parsons v. Colt’s Manufacturing Company[1]...

 For decades, the plain smell doctrine allowed law enforcement to use the smell of marijuana,...

In Cleveland Metropolitan Bar Association v. Morton,[1] the Ohio Supreme Court sanctioned an attorney for...

On December 3, 2021, the Oregon Supreme Court delivered a unanimous opinion in Whitehead v....

This paper reviews key civil justice issues and changes in 2021. Part I focuses on broad...