Sep 19 2023 Publication State Court Docket Watch Maine Supreme Court Endorses Flexible Balancing Test for Analyzing Speedy Trial Claims Under the Maine Constitution John Gaelen Wrench In Winchester v. State, the Maine Supreme Court considered whether criminal cases that took between...
Sep 7 2023 Publication State Court Docket Watch In re Hawai'i Electric Light Company: Legislative Purpose, Greenhouse Gas Emissions, and the Public Interest Charles Yates Article XI, section 9 of the Constitution of Hawai'i establishes “a right to a clean...
Jul 11 2023 Publication State Court Docket Watch Felon Re-Enfranchisement Requirements Upheld by North Carolina Supreme Court Ken Daines, Andrew Watkins When lawsuits challenge state legislative enactments as racially discriminatory or motivated by invidious intent, courts...
Jun 27 2023 Publication State Court Docket Watch Narrow Right to Abortion in State Constitution Divined and Reaffirmed by Oklahoma Supreme Court Giancarlo Canaparo In Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, the United States Supreme Court held that there...
Jun 27 2023 Publication State Court Docket Watch Abortion Laws In Oklahoma Subject of Fractured Decision at State Supreme Court Denise M. Harle Immediately after the U.S. Supreme Court’s landmark decision in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization,[1]...
May 25 2023 Publication State Court Docket Watch Minnesota Supreme Court Grapples with Voting Rights and Equal Protection Anna Goodman The Minnesota Supreme Court recently decided a challenge to Minnesota’s system for restoring voting rights...
Feb 27 2023 Publication State Court Docket Watch Public records, Excel spreadsheets, and textualism: Kansas Supreme Court affirms the separation of powers Charles Yates Within the American system of government, legislative authority is the sole prerogative of the people’s...
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, Andrew Watkins State courts often play an important role in reviewing and interpreting state laws that govern...
Jan 18 2023 Publication State Court Docket Watch State Court Docket Watch: Matthews v. Industrial Commission of Arizona Giancarlo Canaparo How does originalism work with state constitutions? Justice Clint Bolick, writing for the Arizona Supreme...
Dec 23 2022 Publication State Court Docket Watch State Court Docket Watch: Ritter v. Oklahoma Charles Yates The drafters of the Oklahoma Constitution—“[f]earing excessive power in the hands of one individual”—strictly...
Maine Supreme Court Endorses Flexible Balancing Test for Analyzing Speedy Trial Claims Under the Maine Constitution
John Gaelen Wrench
In Winchester v. State, the Maine Supreme Court considered whether criminal cases that took between...
In re Hawai'i Electric Light Company: Legislative Purpose, Greenhouse Gas Emissions, and the Public Interest
Charles Yates
Article XI, section 9 of the Constitution of Hawai'i establishes “a right to a clean...
Felon Re-Enfranchisement Requirements Upheld by North Carolina Supreme Court
Ken Daines, Andrew Watkins
When lawsuits challenge state legislative enactments as racially discriminatory or motivated by invidious intent, courts...
Narrow Right to Abortion in State Constitution Divined and Reaffirmed by Oklahoma Supreme Court
Giancarlo Canaparo
In Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, the United States Supreme Court held that there...
Abortion Laws In Oklahoma Subject of Fractured Decision at State Supreme Court
Denise M. Harle
Immediately after the U.S. Supreme Court’s landmark decision in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization,[1]...
Minnesota Supreme Court Grapples with Voting Rights and Equal Protection
Anna Goodman
The Minnesota Supreme Court recently decided a challenge to Minnesota’s system for restoring voting rights...
Public records, Excel spreadsheets, and textualism: Kansas Supreme Court affirms the separation of powers
Charles Yates
Within the American system of government, legislative authority is the sole prerogative of the people’s...
North Carolina Supreme Court Invalidates Redistricting Map and Voter ID Law Enacted By Legislature
Ken Daines, Andrew Pardue, Andrew Watkins
State courts often play an important role in reviewing and interpreting state laws that govern...
State Court Docket Watch: Matthews v. Industrial Commission of Arizona
Giancarlo Canaparo
How does originalism work with state constitutions? Justice Clint Bolick, writing for the Arizona Supreme...
State Court Docket Watch: Ritter v. Oklahoma
Charles Yates
The drafters of the Oklahoma Constitution—“[f]earing excessive power in the hands of one individual”—strictly...