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 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...
Jan 25 2024 Topics State Governments • Supreme Court • Federalism & Separation of Powers Blog Post Supreme Court to Decide Whether EMTALA Preempts State Abortion Laws: Idaho v. U.S. and Moyle v. U.S. Rachel N. Morrison Abortion is before the Supreme Court once again. This month, the Court granted certiorari in...
Jan 22 2024 Publication State Court Docket Watch California Supreme Court Holds That State Law Preempts County Anti-Fracking Ordinance John Shu The issue in Chevron U.S.A., Inc. v. County of Monterey, Calif. was whether California Public Resources Code § 3106 preempts a...
Jan 10 2024 Topics Corporations, Securities & Antitrust • Labor & Employment Law • Law & Economics • State Governments Blog Post News Sectoral Bargaining for Rideshare Drivers in Massachusetts: Legally Dubious, Economically Disastrous Alexander Thomas MacDonald Voter initiatives can be a double-edged sword. While they often allow voters to bypass legislative...
Dec 22 2023 Publication State Court Docket Watch Ohio Law Allowing Judges to Impose Indefinite Sentences Upheld at State Supreme Court Alex M. Certo In State v. Hacker,[1] the Ohio Supreme Court upheld, by a 5-2 decision, the constitutionality...
Dec 22 2023 Publication State Court Docket Watch Georgia Supreme Court Rejects Sex Offender Registration Challenge, Re-Affirms Originalism Commitment Nicholas DeBenedetto In May, the Supreme Court of Georgia unanimously rejected a facial and as-applied challenge to...
Dec 22 2023 Publication State Court Docket Watch Dram-Shop Liability and the State Constitution at the Arizona Supreme Court Timothy Sandefur The Arizona Supreme Court made surprisingly quick work of what at first appeared to be...
Dec 20 2023 Publication State Court Docket Watch Can a Respondeat Superior Claim Survive Dismissal of the Underlying Negligence Claim? Arizona Supreme Court Reverses Course. John Thorpe For nearly eighty years, Arizona courts have held that if a negligence claim against an...
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...
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...
Topics
Supreme Court to Decide Whether EMTALA Preempts State Abortion Laws: Idaho v. U.S. and Moyle v. U.S.
Abortion is before the Supreme Court once again. This month, the Court granted certiorari in...
California Supreme Court Holds That State Law Preempts County Anti-Fracking Ordinance
John Shu
The issue in Chevron U.S.A., Inc. v. County of Monterey, Calif. was whether California Public Resources Code § 3106 preempts a...
Topics
Sectoral Bargaining for Rideshare Drivers in Massachusetts: Legally Dubious, Economically Disastrous
Voter initiatives can be a double-edged sword. While they often allow voters to bypass legislative...
Ohio Law Allowing Judges to Impose Indefinite Sentences Upheld at State Supreme Court
Alex M. Certo
In State v. Hacker,[1] the Ohio Supreme Court upheld, by a 5-2 decision, the constitutionality...
Georgia Supreme Court Rejects Sex Offender Registration Challenge, Re-Affirms Originalism Commitment
Nicholas DeBenedetto
In May, the Supreme Court of Georgia unanimously rejected a facial and as-applied challenge to...
Dram-Shop Liability and the State Constitution at the Arizona Supreme Court
Timothy Sandefur
The Arizona Supreme Court made surprisingly quick work of what at first appeared to be...
Can a Respondeat Superior Claim Survive Dismissal of the Underlying Negligence Claim? Arizona Supreme Court Reverses Course.
John Thorpe
For nearly eighty years, Arizona courts have held that if a negligence claim against an...