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Texas Supreme Court Upholds the First New Appellate Court in Nearly Sixty Years

Adam Shniderman

For the first time in nearly sixty years, the Texas Legislature created a new appellate...

Montana High Court Recognizes Executive-Privilege Exception to State Constitution’s Right-to-Know

Matt Liles

The Montana Constitution protects the right to examine documents held by any arm of the...

New Jersey Supreme Court: Private Investors Liable as State Actors for Tax-Foreclosure Takings Under Tyler v. Hennepin County

David Deerson

In its 2023 decision in Tyler v. Hennepin County, the U.S. Supreme Court unanimously held...

Separation of Powers and Prisoner Execution in Texas

Eric Heigis

On November 15, 2024, the Texas Supreme Court issued a unanimous decision in In re...

Nebraska Supreme Court Upholds Constitutionality of Felon Re-Enfranchisement

Publius

  In State ex rel. Spung v. Evnen, the Nebraska Supreme Court rejected a constitutional...

Is Voting in Kansas a Fundamental Right?  Kansas Supreme Court Weighs In

Erin Gaide

Those who do not spend their days thinking about election law may be surprised to...

California Supreme Court Upholds Prop 22, Allows App-Based Drivers to Keep Working as Contractors

Alexander T. MacDonald

  After years of litigation, the California Supreme Court upheld Proposition 22, a ballot initiative allowing app-based...

No Standing in Challenge to Legislature’s Appropriation of Federal Funds to Private Schools Says Mississippi Supreme Court

Anthony Sanders

  Midsouth Association of Independent Schools v. Parents for Public Schools was a challenge to...

Montana Supreme Court Strikes Down Parental Consent Abortion Law

Julia Payne Koon

  Twenty-seven states require parental consent for a minor to have an abortion.[1] And fifteen...

Nebraska Supreme Court Rejects Single-Subject Challenge to Law Limiting “Gender Altering” Procedures and Abortions

Allison Pope

  Does a bill that limits gender-altering procedures and abortions “contain more than one subject”?...