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State Court Docket Watch: State of Arizona v. Mixton
Note from the Editor: The author of this article, Timothy Sandefur, filed an amicus brief...
State Court Docket Watch: In Re: Amendments to Florida Rule of Civil Procedure 1.510
On December 31, 2020, the Florida Supreme Court prospectively amended Florida Rule of Civil Procedure...
State Court Docket Watch: State of Montana v. Mercier
Presently, there is much uncertainty in Sixth Amendment Confrontation Clause jurisprudence in light of differences in tone...
State Court Docket Watch: State of Wisconsin v. Roundtree
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State Court Docket Watch: State of Oregon v. Pittman
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State Court Docket Watch: Grisham v. Romero
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State Court Docket Watch: Hamen v. Hamlin County
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State Court Docket Watch: State of Wisconsin v. Halverson
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State Court Docket Watch: State of Vermont v. Misch
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State Court Docket Watch: Fabick v. Evers
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State Court Docket Watch: State of Washington v. Blake
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State Court Docket Watch: Zignego v. Wisconsin Elections Commission
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State Court Docket Watch: Tavern League of Wisconsin, Inc. v. Andrea Palm
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State Court Docket Watch: Schires v. Carlat
Note from the Editor: Mr. Avelar served on an outside moot panel for the taxpayers’...
State Court Docket Watch: In re Petition for Expungement of the Criminal Records Belonging to T.O.
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State Court Docket Watch: Woods v. Seattle Union Gospel Mission
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State Court Docket Watch: Initiative Measure No. 65: Mayor Butler v. Watson
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State Court Docket Watch: State of Iowa v. Wright
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State Court Docket Watch: State of Minnesota v. Khalil
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State Court Docket Watch: DeWeese-Boyd v. Gordon College
Note from the Editor: Mr. Lorence's organization, Alliance Defending Freedom, was retained by Gordon College to...
State Court Docket Watch: Clean Wisconsin v. Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources
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State Court Docket Watch: In the Matter of Adopting Felony Conviction Challenge for Cause Amendments to Chapter 1 of Civil Procedure and Chapter 2 Rules of Criminal Procedure
On February 19, the Iowa Supreme Court amended the state rules of civil and criminal...
State Court Docket Watch: Cameron v. Beshear
As society grapples with the evolving nature of the COVID-19 pandemic, public policy disagreements about...
State Court Docket Watch: State of New Mexico v. Wilson
During the COVID-19 pandemic, the governor of New Mexico issued a series of public health...
State Court Docket Watch: Loudoun County School Board v. Cross
On August 30, 2021, the Virginia Supreme Court issued its decision in Loudoun County School...
State Court Docket Watch: Wilson v. City of Columbia
In Wilson v. City of Columbia,[1] the South Carolina Supreme Court held that a city...
State Court Docket Watch: State of Indiana v. Tyson Timbs
An Eight-Year Battle The Indiana Supreme Court has considered the state’s use of civil asset...
State Court Docket Watch: Barnett v. Jones
In its recent opinion in Barnett v. Jones,[1] the Alabama Supreme Court applied textual rules...
State Court Docket Watch: In Re Humphrey
On May 23, 2017, Kenneth Humphrey, a 66-year-old four-strike offender under California law,[1] followed a...
State Court Docket Watch: City of Seattle v. Long
Under Seattle’s Traffic Code, a vehicle may not be parked on a city street for...
State Court Docket Watch: Washington State Legislature v. Inslee
On November 10, 2021, the Washington Supreme Court handed the state legislature a win and...
State Court Docket Watch: Guns Save Lives, Inc. v. Ali
On October 21, 2021, the Illinois Supreme Court struck down two Cook County gun and...
State Court Docket Watch: Oklahoma ex rel. Hunter v. Johnson & Johnson
In Oklahoma ex rel. Hunter v. Johnson & Johnson, the Oklahoma Supreme Court overturned a...
State Court Docket Watch: State of Washington v. Haag
On September 23, 2021, the Washington Supreme Court decided State v. Haag and vacated the...
State Court Docket Watch: Corman v. Acting Secretary of the Pennsylvania Department of Health
On December 10, 2021, the Pennsylvania Supreme Court unanimously affirmed,[1] on expedited direct appeal, a...
State Court Docket Watch: Justice v. West Virginia AFL-CIO
In Justice v. West Virginia AFL-CIO, the West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals, the state’s...
State Court Docket Watch: State of Alaska v. The Alaska Legislative Council
Most are familiar with the United States Senate’s “advice and consent” role in confirming Executive...
State Court Docket Watch: Smith v. Isakson
Docket Watch: Smith v. Isakson The right to a trial by jury has been a...
State Court Docket Watch: Yurish v. Sinclair Broadcast Group, Inc.
In 2001, in Bartnicki v. Vopper, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that a third party...
State Court Docket Watch: Parsons v. Colt’s Manufacturing Company
In December 2021, a unanimous Nevada Supreme Court determined in Parsons v. Colt’s Manufacturing Company[1]...
State Court Docket Watch: Commonwealth v. Barr
For decades, the plain smell doctrine allowed law enforcement to use the smell of marijuana,...
State Court Docket Watch: Cleveland Metro. Bar Assn. v. Morton
In Cleveland Metropolitan Bar Association v. Morton,[1] the Ohio Supreme Court sanctioned an attorney for...
State Court Docket Watch: Whitehead v. Fagan
On December 3, 2021, the Oregon Supreme Court delivered a unanimous opinion in Whitehead v....