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Sydney Hayes
Sydney Hayes is lecturer and assistant director of the First Amendment Clinic at the University of Nebraska College of Law. She also practices civil rights and election law with the Gutman Law...
The Nebraska Constitution: Creator of the Country’s Only Unicameral Legislature
The powers of initiative and referendum make the people the “second house.”
State Courts Offer Protection Against Pregnancy Discrimination
Courts in almost two dozen states have rejected the U.S. Supreme Court’s reasoning that discrimination based on pregnancy is not sex discrimination.
Pennsylvania Court Finds Reproductive Autonomy Is a Fundamental Right
The lower court ruling came more than two years after the state high court allowed a challenge to a ban on Medicaid-funded abortion to proceed.
Muth v. Voe; Doe v. Abbott; Muth v. PFLAG
Texas Supreme Court vacated as moot temporary injunctions that had prohibited a state agency from conducting child abuse investigations of parents whose children received gender-affirming medical care. An appellate court had previously upheld the injunctions
Former Texas Chief Justice on the Importance of Court Transparency
The Supreme Court of Texas has long allowed cameras in its courtroom and takes the unique approach of allowing clerks to sit in on conferences.
Mills v. Arizona State Board of Technical Registration
Electrical engineer Greg Mills challenges Arizona's licensing requirement for certain engineers as violating his right to earn a living under the state’s due process clause and running afoul of the privileges or immunities clause (the state’s equivalent of equal protection), among other claims
Kentucky High Court Blocks Judicial Impeachment
The state supreme court’s decision asserted judicial authority at a moment when courts’ independence has been under assault across the country.
State v. Ayon-Urbano
Oregon Supreme Court will consider whether criminal defendants have a compulsory process right to subpoena social media companies for records that are relevant to investigating their defense
Allegheny Reproductive Health v. Pennsylvania Department of Human Services
Pennsylvania Supreme Court reinstated lawsuit challenging constitutionality of ban on Medicaid-funded abortion and held that the ban must survive heightened scrutiny; on remand, lower court found the ban violates the state's equal rights amendment and equal protection guarantee
