State Courts

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...

Toward a More Confident State Constitutionalism

Stephen J. Markman

Federalist Society Review, Volume 25

This article is adapted from a speech Justice Markman delivered to the Florida Annual Education...

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,...

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...