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Hogan v. Southern Methodist University
Held that a pandemic era law that protected schools from having to pay monetary damages for changes made to the academic experience did not violate a Texas Constitution clause prohibiting retroactive laws.
Fair Maps Nevada v. Jeng
Nevada Supreme Court held that initiatives seeking to amend the state constitution to create a seven-member redistricting commission charged with drawing the state's legislative and congressional maps were unconstitutional
Ochuwa Garuba
Ochuwa Garuba is a student at Vanderbilt University and a former intern at the Brennan Center for Justice.
California Lawsuits Test Boundaries of the Right to Protest
Students and faculty have sued UCLA and UC Santa Cruz for shutting down encampments.
Jane Doe v. Manchester School District
Plaintiff claims that school district's policy that staff generally should not inform parents when a student identifies as gender nonconforming, absent student consent, violates parents' rights
Syed v. Lee
Maryland Supreme Court held that victim's representatives had a right to participate in person a hearing on a motion to vacate defendant's conviction under state constitution's requirement that crime victims be treated with dignity and sensitivity
Sisolak v. Polymer80
Upheld several statutes relating to bans of “ghost guns” ban, overturning a district court ruling that found the statutes unconstitutionally vague
Nevadans For Reproductive Freedom v. Washington et al.
Rejected a challenge by an anti-abortion group to a proposed ballot initiative that would create state constitutional abortion protections
Texas v. Loe
The Texas Supreme Court refused to block a ban on certain medical treatments for transgender minors, saying the state legislature had a rational basis for passing the law and that it does not improperly infringe on the rights of parents to make medical decisions for the children or on physicians’ abilities to treat patients. The court also said the law does not constitute sex discrimination and declined to treat transgender people as a protected class.
Caryn Schreiber
Caryn Schreiber is the director of the Civil Legal Services Clinic and an assistant professor at the University of Wyoming College of Law.
