Jun 4 2024 Publication State Court Docket Watch PA Supreme Court Embraces “Per-Defendant” Basis for Calculating Punitive-to-Compensatory Damages Ratio Michael J. Schneekloth The U.S. Supreme Court has repeatedly declined to articulate a bright line rule capping the...
Jun 3 2024 Publication State Court Docket Watch Illinois Supreme Court Rules Monetary Bail Not Required By Bail Clause in State Constitution Garrett Snedeker In July 2023, the Illinois Supreme Court issued a much-anticipated ruling in Rowe v. Raoul,...
May 30 2024 Publication State Court Docket Watch Wisconsin Supreme Court Resolves Sentencing Credit Dispute & Clarifies Precedent About “Read-in” Counts Skylar Croy The idea behind sentencing credit sounds simple: an offender who is ultimately convicted gets credit...
May 21 2024 Publication State Court Docket Watch Georgia Supreme Court Rules Certificates of Need Confer Private Rights Oliver Dunford In Kennestone Hospital, Inc. v. Emory University, the Supreme Court of Georgia was asked to...
Apr 24 2024 Publication State Court Docket Watch The Supreme Court of Texas Addresses Exception to State Anti-Abortion Law Sydney Dominguez Madigan In the wake of the U.S. Supreme Court’s 2022 reversal of Roe v. Wade,[1] the...
Apr 16 2024 Publication State Court Docket Watch Indiana Supreme Court Recognizes State Constitutional Right to a Jury in Civil Forfeiture Actions Adam Steinhilber In State v. $2,435 in U.S. Currency, the Indiana Supreme Court unanimously held that Article...
Apr 9 2024 Publication State Court Docket Watch Reverse Keyword Search Warrant Upheld at Colorado Supreme Court Brent Skorup A house fire in August 2020 in Denver killed a Senegalese family—three adults, a toddler,...
Apr 3 2024 Publication State Court Docket Watch Federal Law and State Common Law Preemption Questions at the Texas Supreme Court Seth Lucas Courts are divided on whether federal regulations of rail carriers preempt state common law negligence...
Apr 3 2024 Publication State Court Docket Watch Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court Sides with Government in Nondelegation Case Eli Nachmany In Robinhood Financial LLC v. Secretary of Commonwealth, the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court sided...
Mar 21 2024 Publication State Court Docket Watch Michigan Supreme Court Finds Confession of 18-Year-Old Inadmissible Reilly Stephens The Michigan Supreme Court’s recent decision in People v. Stewart revisits the longstanding debate about...
PA Supreme Court Embraces “Per-Defendant” Basis for Calculating Punitive-to-Compensatory Damages Ratio
Michael J. Schneekloth
The U.S. Supreme Court has repeatedly declined to articulate a bright line rule capping the...
Illinois Supreme Court Rules Monetary Bail Not Required By Bail Clause in State Constitution
Garrett Snedeker
In July 2023, the Illinois Supreme Court issued a much-anticipated ruling in Rowe v. Raoul,...
Wisconsin Supreme Court Resolves Sentencing Credit Dispute & Clarifies Precedent About “Read-in” Counts
Skylar Croy
The idea behind sentencing credit sounds simple: an offender who is ultimately convicted gets credit...
Georgia Supreme Court Rules Certificates of Need Confer Private Rights
Oliver Dunford
In Kennestone Hospital, Inc. v. Emory University, the Supreme Court of Georgia was asked to...
The Supreme Court of Texas Addresses Exception to State Anti-Abortion Law
Sydney Dominguez Madigan
In the wake of the U.S. Supreme Court’s 2022 reversal of Roe v. Wade,[1] the...
Indiana Supreme Court Recognizes State Constitutional Right to a Jury in Civil Forfeiture Actions
Adam Steinhilber
In State v. $2,435 in U.S. Currency, the Indiana Supreme Court unanimously held that Article...
Reverse Keyword Search Warrant Upheld at Colorado Supreme Court
Brent Skorup
A house fire in August 2020 in Denver killed a Senegalese family—three adults, a toddler,...
Federal Law and State Common Law Preemption Questions at the Texas Supreme Court
Seth Lucas
Courts are divided on whether federal regulations of rail carriers preempt state common law negligence...
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court Sides with Government in Nondelegation Case
Eli Nachmany
In Robinhood Financial LLC v. Secretary of Commonwealth, the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court sided...
Michigan Supreme Court Finds Confession of 18-Year-Old Inadmissible
Reilly Stephens
The Michigan Supreme Court’s recent decision in People v. Stewart revisits the longstanding debate about...