Jan 9 2025 Publication Federalist Society Review 2024 Civil Justice Update Mark A. Behrens Federalist Society Review, Volume 26 This paper reviews key civil justice issues and changes in 2024. Part I discusses legal reform...
Nov 2 2009 Publication State Court Docket Watch Washington Supreme Court Upholds At-Will Employment: Employees Who Object to “Bad Boss” Are Not Protected from Termination Michael J. Reitz The Washington State Supreme Court narrowly affirmed an employer’s right to terminate employees who disagree...
Jul 2 2008 Publication State Court Docket Watch Washington Supreme Court Round-Up: 2007 Highlights Andrew Cook Court Rules That Voters Did not Understand the Initiative For Which They Voted The Washington Supreme Court recently issued another much publicized opinion, ruling 5-4 that the voters...
Jul 2 2007 Publication State Court Docket Watch New York and Maine High Courts Review State Financing of Schools Amber Taylor In the last year, the highest courts in New York and Maine issued important rulings...
Oct 2 2005 Publication State Court Docket Watch Recent Gay Marriage Rulings John Shu Gay marriage litigation continues to occur in various forms among the several states. In the...
Dec 2 2005 Publication State Court Docket Watch Washington State Supreme Court Hands Down Decision in Eminent Domain Case Publius In HTK Management, L.L.C. v. Seattle Popular Monorail Authority (Wash. 2005), the Washington State Supreme...
Mar 2 2010 Publication State Court Docket Watch Montana Supreme Court: Physician-Assisted Suicide Is an End-of-Life Option Rita L. Marker On the last day of 2009, Montana’s Supreme Court handed down its ruling in Baxter v....
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...
Sep 12 2018 Publication State Court Docket Watch Eyman v. Wyman; Ball and Gottlieb v. Wyman David K. DeWolf, Joel Ard The Washington Supreme Court issued decisions in two cases addressing procedural mandates of the state...
Sep 17 2018 Publication State Court Docket Watch Black v. Central Puget Sound Regional Transit Authority Joel Ard This lawsuit, now pending appeal to Washington’s intermediate appellate court, seeks to enforce a constitutional...
2024 Civil Justice Update
Mark A. Behrens
Federalist Society Review, Volume 26
This paper reviews key civil justice issues and changes in 2024. Part I discusses legal reform...
Washington Supreme Court Upholds At-Will Employment: Employees Who Object to “Bad Boss” Are Not Protected from Termination
Michael J. Reitz
The Washington State Supreme Court narrowly affirmed an employer’s right to terminate employees who disagree...
Washington Supreme Court Round-Up: 2007 Highlights
Andrew Cook
Court Rules That Voters Did not Understand the Initiative For Which They Voted
The Washington Supreme Court recently issued another much publicized opinion, ruling 5-4 that the voters...
New York and Maine High Courts Review State Financing of Schools
Amber Taylor
In the last year, the highest courts in New York and Maine issued important rulings...
Recent Gay Marriage Rulings
John Shu
Gay marriage litigation continues to occur in various forms among the several states. In the...
Washington State Supreme Court Hands Down Decision in Eminent Domain Case
Publius
In HTK Management, L.L.C. v. Seattle Popular Monorail Authority (Wash. 2005), the Washington State Supreme...
Montana Supreme Court: Physician-Assisted Suicide Is an End-of-Life Option
Rita L. Marker
On the last day of 2009, Montana’s Supreme Court handed down its ruling in Baxter v....
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...
Eyman v. Wyman; Ball and Gottlieb v. Wyman
David K. DeWolf, Joel Ard
The Washington Supreme Court issued decisions in two cases addressing procedural mandates of the state...
Black v. Central Puget Sound Regional Transit Authority
Joel Ard
This lawsuit, now pending appeal to Washington’s intermediate appellate court, seeks to enforce a constitutional...