Feb 13 2023 Publication State Court Docket Watch North Carolina Supreme Court Invalidates Redistricting Map and Voter ID Law Enacted By Legislature Ken Daines, Andrew Pardue, Drew Watkins State courts often play an important role in reviewing and interpreting state laws that govern...
Feb 9 2023 Publication State Court Docket Watch Ohio Supreme Court Holds That the Courts, Not State Agencies, “Say What the Law Is.” Zack Smith In a recent opinion by Justice Patrick DeWine, the Ohio Supreme Court unanimously reaffirmed that...
Feb 3 2023 Publication White Papers 2022 Civil Justice Update Mark A. Behrens White Paper This paper reviews key civil justice issues and changes in 2022. Part I discusses the...
Jan 19 2023 Publication State Court Docket Watch State Court Docket Watch: Young Americans for Liberty v. St. John IV Abigail Smith Alabama Supreme Court revives a challenge to campus speech restrictions. In Young Americans for Liberty at the University of Alabama in Huntsville v. St. John...
Jan 18 2023 Publication State Court Docket Watch State Court Docket Watch: Matthews v. Industrial Commission of Arizona GianCarlo Canaparo Arizona Supreme Court employs corpus linguistics in a search for the original public meaning of a state constitutional provision. How does originalism work with state constitutions? Justice Clint Bolick, writing for the Arizona Supreme...
Jan 18 2023 Publication State Court Docket Watch State Court Docket Watch: Rouch World v. Department of Civil Rights Caleb Dalton Michigan Supreme Court rules that discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation is prohibited by the state's civil rights law. In Rouch World, LLC v. Department of Civil Rights, the Michigan Supreme Court expounded on...
Dec 23 2022 Publication State Court Docket Watch State Court Docket Watch: Mills v. Arizona Board of Technical Registration Nate Curtisi Arizona Supreme Court clarifies the doctrine of administrative exhaustion in Arizona In Mills v. Arizona Board of Technical Registration,[1] the Arizona Supreme Court considered whether...
Dec 23 2022 Publication State Court Docket Watch State Court Docket Watch: Ritter v. Oklahoma Charles Yates A Significant Separation of Powers Decision from the Supreme Court of Oklahoma The drafters of the Oklahoma Constitution—“[f]earing excessive power in the hands of one individual”—strictly...
Dec 23 2022 Publication State Court Docket Watch State Court Docket Watch: Harkenrider v. Hochul Joseph T. Burns NY Court of Appeals rules that procedures in state constitution were violated in enactment of redistricting plans On April 27, 2022, the New York State Court of Appeals invalidated the Congressional and...
Dec 16 2022 Publication State Court Docket Watch State Court Docket Watch: Tennessee v. Deberry Zack Smith Tennessee Supreme Court grapples with whether no penalty is the same thing as a "lesser penalty." Does a state statute only mean what it says and nothing more? In a...
North Carolina Supreme Court Invalidates Redistricting Map and Voter ID Law Enacted By Legislature
Ken Daines, Andrew Pardue, Drew Watkins
State courts often play an important role in reviewing and interpreting state laws that govern...
Ohio Supreme Court Holds That the Courts, Not State Agencies, “Say What the Law Is.”
Zack Smith
In a recent opinion by Justice Patrick DeWine, the Ohio Supreme Court unanimously reaffirmed that...
2022 Civil Justice Update
Mark A. Behrens
White Paper
This paper reviews key civil justice issues and changes in 2022. Part I discusses the...
State Court Docket Watch: Young Americans for Liberty v. St. John IV
Abigail Smith
Alabama Supreme Court revives a challenge to campus speech restrictions.
In Young Americans for Liberty at the University of Alabama in Huntsville v. St. John...
State Court Docket Watch: Matthews v. Industrial Commission of Arizona
GianCarlo Canaparo
Arizona Supreme Court employs corpus linguistics in a search for the original public meaning of a state constitutional provision.
How does originalism work with state constitutions? Justice Clint Bolick, writing for the Arizona Supreme...
State Court Docket Watch: Rouch World v. Department of Civil Rights
Caleb Dalton
Michigan Supreme Court rules that discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation is prohibited by the state's civil rights law.
In Rouch World, LLC v. Department of Civil Rights, the Michigan Supreme Court expounded on...
State Court Docket Watch: Mills v. Arizona Board of Technical Registration
Nate Curtisi
Arizona Supreme Court clarifies the doctrine of administrative exhaustion in Arizona
In Mills v. Arizona Board of Technical Registration,[1] the Arizona Supreme Court considered whether...
State Court Docket Watch: Ritter v. Oklahoma
Charles Yates
A Significant Separation of Powers Decision from the Supreme Court of Oklahoma
The drafters of the Oklahoma Constitution—“[f]earing excessive power in the hands of one individual”—strictly...
State Court Docket Watch: Harkenrider v. Hochul
Joseph T. Burns
NY Court of Appeals rules that procedures in state constitution were violated in enactment of redistricting plans
On April 27, 2022, the New York State Court of Appeals invalidated the Congressional and...
State Court Docket Watch: Tennessee v. Deberry
Zack Smith
Tennessee Supreme Court grapples with whether no penalty is the same thing as a "lesser penalty."
Does a state statute only mean what it says and nothing more? In a...