May 9 2025 Topics State Courts • State Governments • State Constitutions Blog Post New From FedSoc: State Court Docket Watch Newsletter Publius N/A Federalism is a central feature of our American system of government. In recognition of the...
May 9 2025 Topics Civil Rights • Religious Liberty • State Courts Blog Post Using Public Accommodations Laws to Protect Religious Groups From Private Cancellation Mathew Walter Hoffmann A pioneering case charts how religious groups can harness the power of public accommodations laws...
May 2 2025 Publication State Court Docket Watch Montana High Court Recognizes Executive-Privilege Exception to State Constitution’s Right-to-Know Matt Liles The Montana Constitution protects the right to examine documents held by any arm of the...
Apr 23 2025 Topics Election Law • State Courts • Free Speech & Election Law Blog Post NC Supreme Court Election Fight: “Bloodless Coup” or Election Administration Snafu? Andrew Watkins, Daniel Bruce More than five months after the November 2024 election, the race for Seat 6 of...
Apr 9 2025 Topics Religious Liberty • State Courts • Supreme Court Blog Post The Supreme Court Hears Oral Argument in Catholic Charities Bureau v. Wisconsin Labor and Industry Review Commission Sarah E. Lang On March 31, the Supreme Court heard oral argument in its first religious freedom case...
Apr 4 2025 Topics Jurisprudence • Philosophy • State Courts Blog Post “The Rule of Law Means That No Person Is Above the Law’s Requirements or Below Its Protections”: New Georgia Chief Justice Defines and Defends the Rule of Law Publius N/A On Tuesday, Hon. Nels S.D. Peterson was sworn in as the new Chief Justice of...
Apr 2 2025 Publication State Court Docket Watch New Jersey Supreme Court: Private Investors Liable as State Actors for Tax-Foreclosure Takings Under Tyler v. Hennepin County David Deerson In its 2023 decision in Tyler v. Hennepin County, the U.S. Supreme Court unanimously held...
Mar 31 2025 Publication State Court Docket Watch Texas Justices Call Out McDonnell Douglas Framework Adam Steinhilber In a recent case involving an age discrimination claim against Texas Tech University Health...
Mar 31 2025 Publication State Court Docket Watch Wisconsin Supreme Court Overrules Two-Year-Old Precedent to Allow Ballot Drop Boxes Jared C. Huber Wisconsin Statute Section 6.87(4)(b)1 provides that an absentee ballot “shall be mailed by the elector,...
Mar 31 2025 Publication State Court Docket Watch Wisconsin Supreme Court Rules Sidewalk is Not “Pedestrian Way” Tom M. Fogarty Sojenhomer, LLC owned and operated a pub near the intersection of County Highway G...
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New From FedSoc: State Court Docket Watch Newsletter
Federalism is a central feature of our American system of government. In recognition of the...
Topics
Using Public Accommodations Laws to Protect Religious Groups From Private Cancellation
A pioneering case charts how religious groups can harness the power of public accommodations laws...
Montana High Court Recognizes Executive-Privilege Exception to State Constitution’s Right-to-Know
Matt Liles
The Montana Constitution protects the right to examine documents held by any arm of the...
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NC Supreme Court Election Fight: “Bloodless Coup” or Election Administration Snafu?
More than five months after the November 2024 election, the race for Seat 6 of...
Topics
The Supreme Court Hears Oral Argument in Catholic Charities Bureau v. Wisconsin Labor and Industry Review Commission
On March 31, the Supreme Court heard oral argument in its first religious freedom case...
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“The Rule of Law Means That No Person Is Above the Law’s Requirements or Below Its Protections”: New Georgia Chief Justice Defines and Defends the Rule of Law
On Tuesday, Hon. Nels S.D. Peterson was sworn in as the new Chief Justice of...
New Jersey Supreme Court: Private Investors Liable as State Actors for Tax-Foreclosure Takings Under Tyler v. Hennepin County
David Deerson
In its 2023 decision in Tyler v. Hennepin County, the U.S. Supreme Court unanimously held...
Texas Justices Call Out McDonnell Douglas Framework
Adam Steinhilber
In a recent case involving an age discrimination claim against Texas Tech University Health...
Wisconsin Supreme Court Overrules Two-Year-Old Precedent to Allow Ballot Drop Boxes
Jared C. Huber
Wisconsin Statute Section 6.87(4)(b)1 provides that an absentee ballot “shall be mailed by the elector,...
Wisconsin Supreme Court Rules Sidewalk is Not “Pedestrian Way”
Tom M. Fogarty
Sojenhomer, LLC owned and operated a pub near the intersection of County Highway G...