May 8 2012 Publication State Court Docket Watch Judicial Selection in Nebraska Steven Grasz The Federalist Society for Law and Public Policy Studies is an organization of 40,000 lawyers,...
Sep 28 2011 Publication State Court Docket Watch State Court Challenges to Legislatively Enacted Tort Reforms Andrew Cook, Emily Kelchen Introduction Over the past three decades, proponents of civil liability reform have made significant gains.1 Propelled...
Mar 2 2011 Publication State Court Docket Watch New Jersey Supreme Court Requires Police to Give Breathalyzer Warnings in Foreign Languages Eric H. Jaso When a police officer stops a suspected drunk driver in New Jersey, and the driver...
Mar 2 2011 Publication State Court Docket Watch Habeas Petitioner Denied Use of Sentence Reduction Credits Daniel Morton-Bentley In Jones v. Keller,1 the North Carolina Supreme Court denied a prisoner’s release after the prisoner asserted...
Mar 2 2010 Publication State Court Docket Watch New York’s Highest Court Backtracks on Property Owners’ Rights in Eminent Domain Case Craig Mausler In In re Goldstein v. New York State Urban Development Corp., New York State used its...
Mar 2 2010 Publication State Court Docket Watch Washington Supreme Court Upholds School Funding Structure: Disparities in School Employee Pay Not Unconstitutional Michael J. Reitz On November 12, 2009, the Washington State Supreme Court unanimously declined to declare as unconstitutional...
Nov 2 2009 Publication State Court Docket Watch Missouri Court Upholds State School Funding Formula Carolyn Hamilton In 2004, Plaintiffs, which include two not-for-profit education advocacy groups, 271 out of 524 Missouri...
Nov 2 2009 Publication State Court Docket Watch After Change in Personnel, Michigan Supreme Court Reverses Itself in Major Insurance Decision Lance Boldrey In 2008, the Michigan Supreme Court, by a 4-3 majority, issued an opinion in United...
Nov 2 2008 Publication State Court Docket Watch Florida Court Snapshot Morgan W. Streetman On July 3, 2008, the Florida Supreme Court ruled that Florida Governor Charlie Crist usurped...
Nov 2 2008 Publication State Court Docket Watch Challenging Tennessee’s Unauthorized Substance Tax Justin Owen Tennessee’s Unauthorized Substances Tax is currently facing its first major constitutional challenge. Since 2005, the...
Judicial Selection in Nebraska
Steven Grasz
The Federalist Society for Law and Public Policy Studies is an organization of 40,000 lawyers,...
State Court Challenges to Legislatively Enacted Tort Reforms
Andrew Cook, Emily Kelchen
Introduction Over the past three decades, proponents of civil liability reform have made significant gains.1 Propelled...
New Jersey Supreme Court Requires Police to Give Breathalyzer Warnings in Foreign Languages
Eric H. Jaso
When a police officer stops a suspected drunk driver in New Jersey, and the driver...
Habeas Petitioner Denied Use of Sentence Reduction Credits
Daniel Morton-Bentley
In Jones v. Keller,1 the North Carolina Supreme Court denied a prisoner’s release after the prisoner asserted...
New York’s Highest Court Backtracks on Property Owners’ Rights in Eminent Domain Case
Craig Mausler
In In re Goldstein v. New York State Urban Development Corp., New York State used its...
Washington Supreme Court Upholds School Funding Structure: Disparities in School Employee Pay Not Unconstitutional
Michael J. Reitz
On November 12, 2009, the Washington State Supreme Court unanimously declined to declare as unconstitutional...
Missouri Court Upholds State School Funding Formula
Carolyn Hamilton
In 2004, Plaintiffs, which include two not-for-profit education advocacy groups, 271 out of 524 Missouri...
After Change in Personnel, Michigan Supreme Court Reverses Itself in Major Insurance Decision
Lance Boldrey
In 2008, the Michigan Supreme Court, by a 4-3 majority, issued an opinion in United...
Florida Court Snapshot
Morgan W. Streetman
On July 3, 2008, the Florida Supreme Court ruled that Florida Governor Charlie Crist usurped...
Challenging Tennessee’s Unauthorized Substance Tax
Justin Owen
Tennessee’s Unauthorized Substances Tax is currently facing its first major constitutional challenge. Since 2005, the...