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New Findings Highlight Lack of Diversity on State Supreme Courts
More data and further scholarship is needed to devise policies for promoting a state bench that adequately represents the varied background of the public.
Chihiro Isozaki
Chihiro Isozaki is a counsel in the Democracy Program at the Brennan Center for Justice.
State v. Reed
Ruled attorney’s fees are recoverable as restitution only when attorney is reasonably necessary to assist victim in exercising rights in a criminal case
Sagoonick v. State
Dismissed equal protection, substantive due process, and public trust rights claims that state energy policies violate individual fundamental right to Alaska’s natural resources and a stable climate
Durst v. Idaho Commission for Reapportionment
Determined that legislative reapportionment plan did not unreasonably divide counties as the state constitution prohibits
The Search and Seizure Law of State Constitutions
Massachusetts is on the front lines of a movement toward independent state constitutional rights.
Stephen Henderson
Stephen Henderson is the Judge Haskell A. Holloman Professor of Law at the University of Oklahoma.
League of Women Voters of Michigan v. Secretary of State
Held a geographic distribution requirement for petition signatures was unconstitutional, but allowing a checkbox indicating whether the petition circulator was paid or volunteer
State v. Carr
Upheld death sentence as not violating right to life and jury trial rights under state constitution
International Association of Fire Fighters, Local 50 v. The City of Peoria
Held a local ordinance exceeded the city's home rule authority when it defined terms in a state law inconsistently with how the state supreme court had previously construed those terms
