Jan 6 2025 Topics Jurisprudence • Supreme Court • Environmental Law & Property Rights Blog Post Climate Litigation at SCOTUS: Will the Court Grant Cert in Sunoco v. Honolulu? Anthony J. Ferate After many years, dozens of identical cases, and hearings at different levels of the state...
Jan 13 2025 Topics Federal Courts • Professional Responsibility & Legal Education • Supreme Court Blog Post A Coda on Judicial Independence: Comments on Chief Justice Roberts’ 2024 Year End Report Michael S. McGinniss As a very eventful 2024 drew to a close, Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts...
Jan 15 2025 Topics Constitution • Supreme Court • Free Speech & Election Law Blog Post Oral Argument in TikTok v. Garland: Does the First Amendment Apply, and How? Christian Corrigan On Friday, January 10, the Supreme Court heard oral arguments in TikTok v. Garland. The...
Feb 1 2003 Publication State Court Docket Watch Judicial Ethics (Mississippi) Publius Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. v. Frierson On a rainy afternoon in 1996, Mr. Turner Frierson, Jr. exited a Wal-Mart store in...
Feb 1 2003 Publication State Court Docket Watch Judicial Ethics (Alabama) Publius Ex parte Monsanto Co. In litigation pending since 1996, 3,500 plaintiffs sued the Monsanto Company and two successor corporations...
Feb 1 2003 Publication State Court Docket Watch Mass Tort (Mississippi) Publius In 2000, a group of 155 plaintiffs filed suit against the manufacturers of the prescription...
Nov 2 2007 Publication State Court Docket Watch Nevada Legislature Passes Proposal to Change Judicial Selection Process Matthew Saltzman Presently, judges in Nevada are selected through contested, non-partisan elections. However, earlier this year the...
Jan 27 2025 Topics Supreme Court • Federalism & Separation of Powers • Environmental Law & Property Rights Blog Post Supreme Court, Without Explanation, Refuses to Allow the State of Utah to Invoke the Court’s Original Jurisdiction to Challenge the Federal Government’s Retention of Millions of Acres of Land Stephen Davis Over the course of the past decade, the embers left by the Sagebrush Revolution—first ignited...
Feb 2 2005 Publication State Court Docket Watch Recent Trends in the Alabama Supreme Court Publius Tort and Consumer Issues In the early ‘90s, tort reform advocates viewed Alabama as a...
Mar 2 2010 Publication State Court Docket Watch CAPERTON Decision Prompts Changes to Judicial Recusal Standards and Procedures Stephen R. Klein In June of 2009, the Supreme Court decided the case Caperton v. A. T. Massey Coal...
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Climate Litigation at SCOTUS: Will the Court Grant Cert in Sunoco v. Honolulu?
After many years, dozens of identical cases, and hearings at different levels of the state...
Topics
A Coda on Judicial Independence: Comments on Chief Justice Roberts’ 2024 Year End Report
As a very eventful 2024 drew to a close, Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts...
Topics
Oral Argument in TikTok v. Garland: Does the First Amendment Apply, and How?
On Friday, January 10, the Supreme Court heard oral arguments in TikTok v. Garland. The...
Judicial Ethics (Mississippi)
Publius
Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. v. Frierson
On a rainy afternoon in 1996, Mr. Turner Frierson, Jr. exited a Wal-Mart store in...
Judicial Ethics (Alabama)
Publius
Ex parte Monsanto Co.
In litigation pending since 1996, 3,500 plaintiffs sued the Monsanto Company and two successor corporations...
Mass Tort (Mississippi)
Publius
In 2000, a group of 155 plaintiffs filed suit against the manufacturers of the prescription...
Nevada Legislature Passes Proposal to Change Judicial Selection Process
Matthew Saltzman
Presently, judges in Nevada are selected through contested, non-partisan elections. However, earlier this year the...
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Supreme Court, Without Explanation, Refuses to Allow the State of Utah to Invoke the Court’s Original Jurisdiction to Challenge the Federal Government’s Retention of Millions of Acres of Land
Over the course of the past decade, the embers left by the Sagebrush Revolution—first ignited...
Recent Trends in the Alabama Supreme Court
Publius
Tort and Consumer Issues In the early ‘90s, tort reform advocates viewed Alabama as a...
CAPERTON Decision Prompts Changes to Judicial Recusal Standards and Procedures
Stephen R. Klein
In June of 2009, the Supreme Court decided the case Caperton v. A. T. Massey Coal...