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...
Mar 18 2024 Topics Litigation • Religious Liberty • State Courts • State Constitutions Blog Post LePage v. Center for Reproductive Medicine, P.C. Mason Rivers Laney On February 16, 2024, the Alabama Supreme Court held 7-2 in LePage v. Center for...
Mar 6 2024 Topics Litigation • Separation of Powers • State Courts Blog Post Converging Rights and Duties: The Minnesota Court of Appeals’ Decision in Matter of Child of M.E.P. Jeffrey Wald Saint John Paul the Great argued that the common good “is that point where rights...
Mar 6 2024 Publication State Court Docket Watch Virginia Supreme Court Rules State Constitution Includes Expansive Protections of Religious Exercise Abigail Smith In Vlaming v. West Point School Board, a former teacher’s lawsuit was given new life...
Feb 29 2024 Publication State Court Docket Watch In Wyoming, Supreme Court Rules Canine Sniffs Outside Vehicles Don’t Need Probable Cause Nicholas DeBenedetto Last June, the Wyoming Supreme Court unanimously held that the Wyoming Constitution does not...
Feb 21 2024 Publication State Court Docket Watch Supreme Court of Texas Holds Governor Can Preempt Local Mask Orders Christian Townsend The Covid-19 pandemic produced many interesting and important constitutional questions. From vaccine mandates[1] to student...
Feb 12 2024 Publication State Court Docket Watch Georgia Supreme Court Rules that State’s Heartbeat Law Is Not Void Ab Initio Daniel Nightingale, Julia Payne In Georgia v. SisterSong Women of Color Reproductive Justice Collective,[1] the Georgia Supreme Court ruled that...
Feb 9 2024 Publication White Papers 2023 Civil Justice Update Mark A. Behrens White Paper This paper reviews key civil justice issues and changes in 2023. Part I discusses legal reform...
Feb 9 2024 Publication State Court Docket Watch Utah Supreme Court Recognizes Fifth Amendment Right in Phone Passcodes GianCarlo Canaparo With each new development in communication and surveillance technology come new Fourth and Fifth Amendment...
Feb 9 2024 Topics Litigation • State Courts • State Governments Blog Post West Virginia Adopts Substantial Civil Rules Changes Mark A. Behrens In 2019, the West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals established a committee to review the...
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...
Topics
LePage v. Center for Reproductive Medicine, P.C.
On February 16, 2024, the Alabama Supreme Court held 7-2 in LePage v. Center for...
Topics
Converging Rights and Duties: The Minnesota Court of Appeals’ Decision in Matter of Child of M.E.P.
Saint John Paul the Great argued that the common good “is that point where rights...
Virginia Supreme Court Rules State Constitution Includes Expansive Protections of Religious Exercise
Abigail Smith
In Vlaming v. West Point School Board, a former teacher’s lawsuit was given new life...
In Wyoming, Supreme Court Rules Canine Sniffs Outside Vehicles Don’t Need Probable Cause
Nicholas DeBenedetto
Last June, the Wyoming Supreme Court unanimously held that the Wyoming Constitution does not...
Supreme Court of Texas Holds Governor Can Preempt Local Mask Orders
Christian Townsend
The Covid-19 pandemic produced many interesting and important constitutional questions. From vaccine mandates[1] to student...
Georgia Supreme Court Rules that State’s Heartbeat Law Is Not Void Ab Initio
Daniel Nightingale, Julia Payne
In Georgia v. SisterSong Women of Color Reproductive Justice Collective,[1] the Georgia Supreme Court ruled that...
2023 Civil Justice Update
Mark A. Behrens
White Paper
This paper reviews key civil justice issues and changes in 2023. Part I discusses legal reform...
Utah Supreme Court Recognizes Fifth Amendment Right in Phone Passcodes
GianCarlo Canaparo
With each new development in communication and surveillance technology come new Fourth and Fifth Amendment...
Topics
West Virginia Adopts Substantial Civil Rules Changes
In 2019, the West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals established a committee to review the...