2022

Arizona’s Constitution requires that each bill passed by its Legislature contain only one subject and...

On February 1, 2022, the Arizona Supreme Court held that the First Amendment barred a...

In McDonald v. Symphony Park Bronzeville, the Illinois Supreme Court decided that the Illinois Workers’...

In Whole Woman’s Health v. Jackson, the Supreme Court of Texas held that certain state...

Does the First Amendment protect a lawyer from discipline by the bar after she gets...

In its 2019 decision in Rucho v. Common Cause, the U.S. Supreme Court closed the...

In recent years, a debate has emerged related to the appropriate role of bail in...

Hard cases make bad law.[1] In re: D.D.[2]—a Maryland policing case involving the odor of...

Hard cases make bad law.[1] In re: D.D.[2]—a Maryland policing case involving the odor of...

Alabama’s constitution prohibits the legislature from enacting a “local law”—one that applies only in one...

 In Washington v. Palla Sum, the Washington Supreme Court considered whether courts in Washington should...

In Planned Parenthood of the Heartland, Inc. v. Reynolds (Planned Parenthood III),[1] the Supreme Court...

Important issues of federalism and administrative law almost always boil down to one simple yet...

  In El Koussa v. Attorney General, the Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts held that...

In a 4-3 decision by Justice Rebecca Frank Dallet, the Wisconsin Supreme Court held that...

Under Michigan law, adults who commit the offense of first-degree murder are subject to a...

Late last term, the United States Supreme Court all but eliminated the ability of individuals...

The U.S. Supreme Court’s recent decision to hear arguments in Moore v. Harper has garnered significant...

In Texas Department of State Health Services v. Crown Distributing LLC, the Texas Supreme Court...

  In North Carolina State Conference of National Association for the Advancement of Colored People...

  The Arizona Constitution, written in 1910, includes several features traceable to the reform efforts...

A recent case from the Supreme Court of Wisconsin, In the Interest of C.G.,[1] raised...

In 2019, in Timbs v. Indiana, the U.S. Supreme Court declared that the Excessive Fines...

  Does a state statute only mean what it says and nothing more? In a...

On April 27, 2022, the New York State Court of Appeals invalidated the Congressional and...

  In Mills v. Arizona Board of Technical Registration,[1] the Arizona Supreme Court considered whether...

  The drafters of the Oklahoma Constitution—“[f]earing excessive power in the hands of one individual”—strictly...

In Rouch World, LLC v. Department of Civil Rights, the Michigan Supreme Court expounded on...

How does originalism work with state constitutions? Justice Clint Bolick, writing for the Arizona Supreme...

In Young Americans for Liberty at the University of Alabama in Huntsville v. St. John...

 In a recent opinion by Justice Patrick DeWine, the Ohio Supreme Court unanimously reaffirmed that...

State courts often play an important role in reviewing and interpreting state laws that govern...

In the wake of the return of the abortion rights issue to the states, many...

Through legislation, local ordinances, ballot initiatives, executive orders, and constitutional amendments, states across the country...

This paper reviews key civil justice issues and changes in 2022. Part I discusses the...