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Missouri High Court Decision Offers Lessons About Advancing Voting Rights
The court blocked restrictions on voter registration efforts as violating free speech rights.
State Court Oral Arguments to Watch for in May
Issues on the dockets include mid-decade redistricting, defendants’ access to social media evidence, and mandatory judicial retirement.
Fitzmaurice v. City of Quincy
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court will consider whether a city's plan to install statues of religious figures on a public building violates a provision that no subordination of any religion to another shall be established by law
Sobel v. Coleman (formerly Cameron)
Jewish women claim abortion ban, which defines human life as beginning at fertilization, violates prohibition on unintelligible laws because its application to in vitro fertilization is unclear, and religious liberties by inhibiting the Jewish duty to procreate and prioritizing Christian values
Michigan Supreme Court to Hear Rare Lawsuit Between Legislative Chambers
The case arose after a new Republican majority in the Michigan House refused to send several bills passed by a previous Democratic-controlled legislature to the governor to become law.
In re L.E.S.
Ohio Supreme Court overturned intermediate court decision devising a “would have been married” test to assess the parentage of children born to same-sex partners who were banned from marrying pre-Obergefell v. Hodges
David M. Shapiro
David M. Shapiro is the executive director of the Roderick & Solange MacArthur Justice Center.
Limiting the Damage of the Juvenile Sentencing Case I Lost
Half a decade after the U.S. Supreme Court signaled it wouldn’t extend protections for children facing life without parole, state constitutions offer hope.
In the Matter of Request for Opinion of the Justices
Maine Supreme Court issued an advisory opinion that proposed legislation extending ranked-choice voting to the general elections for governor and the state legislature would, if enacted, violate clauses requiring those positions to be elected by a plurality of all votes
Coronell v. Georgia
Detainees challenge a state law increasing the number of offenses that require upfront bail payment for pretrial release under the state due process clause
