Jul 31 2013 Publication State Court Docket Watch Citing Rule Against "Log Rolling," Oklahoma Supreme Court Overturns Comprehensive State Tort Reform Glenn G. Lammi State Court Docket Watch Article The practice of tucking tax breaks or other legislative favors for special interests into “must...
Jun 26 2013 Publication White Papers Sunsetting the Tennessee Judicial Nominating Commission: What Now? Brian T. Fitzpatrick State Courts Project White Paper The text of the Tennessee Constitution states all judges “shall be elected by the qualified...
Aug 3 2012 Publication ABA Weighs in on Judicial Selection ABA Watch August 2012 The ABA has long supported “merit” selection in appointing state-court judges over elections or the...
Feb 22 2012 Publication White Papers Guide to Judicial Selection in State High Courts State Courts White Paper This paper outlines the composition of judicial nominating commissions in Missouri Plan and hybrid states.
Feb 11 2009 Publication Kansas Supreme Court Nominating Commission Lawyers 1987-2007 Samson R. Elsbernd The citizens of Kansas are currently engaged in a debate over their state courts. The...
Jan 4 2013 Publication State Court Docket Watch Tenth Circuit Rejects Challenge to the Judicial Merit Selection Process in Kansas Clayton Callen, Justin Whitworth State Court Docket Watch, Winter 2012-2013 The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit has become the latest federal appellate...
May 8 2012 Publication White Papers Judicial Selection in Nebraska White Paper The Federalist Society for Law and Public Policy Studies is an organization of 40,000 lawyers,...
Mar 14 2012 Publication White Papers A Survey of Empirical Evidence Concerning Judicial Elections Chris W. Bonneau State Courts White Paper The election of state judges is a controversial topic. Consider, for example, this quote from...
Feb 8 2011 Publication White Papers A Report on Tennessee Attorney General Selection Keith W. Randall, J. Ammon Smartt White Paper on Tennessee Under the Tennessee Constitution, attorneys general are selected by the justices of the Supreme Court...
Nov 1 2007 Publication State Court Docket Watch November 2007 John Shu, John Hilton, Matthew J. Brooker, Maclin P. Davis, Jonathan Bunch, Matthew Saltzman, James A. Haynes, Benjamin L. Ginsberg, Thomas F. Gede, Brian P. Brooks In an effort to increase dialogue about state court jurisprudence, the Federalist Society presents the...
Citing Rule Against "Log Rolling," Oklahoma Supreme Court Overturns Comprehensive State Tort Reform
Glenn G. Lammi
State Court Docket Watch Article
The practice of tucking tax breaks or other legislative favors for special interests into “must...
Sunsetting the Tennessee Judicial Nominating Commission: What Now?
Brian T. Fitzpatrick
State Courts Project White Paper
The text of the Tennessee Constitution states all judges “shall be elected by the qualified...
ABA Weighs in on Judicial Selection
ABA Watch August 2012
The ABA has long supported “merit” selection in appointing state-court judges over elections or the...
Guide to Judicial Selection in State High Courts
State Courts White Paper
This paper outlines the composition of judicial nominating commissions in Missouri Plan and hybrid states.
Kansas Supreme Court Nominating Commission Lawyers 1987-2007
Samson R. Elsbernd
The citizens of Kansas are currently engaged in a debate over their state courts. The...
Tenth Circuit Rejects Challenge to the Judicial Merit Selection Process in Kansas
Clayton Callen, Justin Whitworth
State Court Docket Watch, Winter 2012-2013
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit has become the latest federal appellate...
Judicial Selection in Nebraska
White Paper
The Federalist Society for Law and Public Policy Studies is an organization of 40,000 lawyers,...
A Survey of Empirical Evidence Concerning Judicial Elections
Chris W. Bonneau
State Courts White Paper
The election of state judges is a controversial topic. Consider, for example, this quote from...
A Report on Tennessee Attorney General Selection
Keith W. Randall, J. Ammon Smartt
White Paper on Tennessee
Under the Tennessee Constitution, attorneys general are selected by the justices of the Supreme Court...
State Court Docket Watch November 2007
John Shu, John Hilton, Matthew J. Brooker, Maclin P. Davis, Jonathan Bunch, Matthew Saltzman, James A. Haynes, Benjamin L. Ginsberg, Thomas F. Gede, Brian P. Brooks
In an effort to increase dialogue about state court jurisprudence, the Federalist Society presents the...