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...
Dec 20 2023 Publication State Court Docket Watch Victim Rights in Arizona's Constitution Clash With Sixth Amendment at Arizona Supreme Court David Euchner In 1990, Arizona was the first state in the nation to adopt a Victim’s Bill...
Dec 20 2023 Publication State Court Docket Watch Georgia Supreme Court Carves Its Own Path on Due Process to Strike Down Occupational Licensing Law Jack Fitzhenry A unanimous Georgia Supreme Court held in Raffensperger v. Jackson that an occupational licensing law...
Dec 13 2023 Publication State Court Docket Watch South Carolina Supreme Court Upholds Heartbeat Abortion Ban Natalie Christmas In Planned Parenthood South Atlantic v. State (Planned Parenthood II), the South Carolina Supreme Court...
Dec 12 2023 Publication State Court Docket Watch Smell of Marijuana Alone Can Justify an Arrest, Even After Legalization of Hemp, Says Wisconsin Supreme Court Anthony Sanders In State v. Moore,[1] decided on June 20, 2023, the Wisconsin Supreme Court faced a...
Dec 12 2023 Publication State Court Docket Watch Texas Supreme Court Rules ERCOT Is a Government Entity, Blocks Suit Stemming From Winter Storm Uri Braden H. Boucek In the winter of 2021, Winter Storm Uri sent Texas into a deep freeze of...
Dec 12 2023 Publication State Court Docket Watch Wisconsin Supreme Court Finds Local "User Fees" To Be Unlawful Property Taxes Daniel Suhr The difference between a tax and a user fee may seem obvious at first glance:...
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...
Victim Rights in Arizona's Constitution Clash With Sixth Amendment at Arizona Supreme Court
David Euchner
In 1990, Arizona was the first state in the nation to adopt a Victim’s Bill...
Georgia Supreme Court Carves Its Own Path on Due Process to Strike Down Occupational Licensing Law
Jack Fitzhenry
A unanimous Georgia Supreme Court held in Raffensperger v. Jackson that an occupational licensing law...
South Carolina Supreme Court Upholds Heartbeat Abortion Ban
Natalie Christmas
In Planned Parenthood South Atlantic v. State (Planned Parenthood II), the South Carolina Supreme Court...
Smell of Marijuana Alone Can Justify an Arrest, Even After Legalization of Hemp, Says Wisconsin Supreme Court
Anthony Sanders
In State v. Moore,[1] decided on June 20, 2023, the Wisconsin Supreme Court faced a...
Texas Supreme Court Rules ERCOT Is a Government Entity, Blocks Suit Stemming From Winter Storm Uri
Braden H. Boucek
In the winter of 2021, Winter Storm Uri sent Texas into a deep freeze of...
Wisconsin Supreme Court Finds Local "User Fees" To Be Unlawful Property Taxes
Daniel Suhr
The difference between a tax and a user fee may seem obvious at first glance:...