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Latino Action Network v. New Jersey
Held that public education system was segregated within districts but did not find statewide segregation
State Courts Determine Whether Abortion Rights Amendments Will Go Before Voters
Cases in multiple states demonstrate the significant roles state judges play in the direct democracy process.
What Does Popular Sovereignty Really Mean?
Two new essays unpack recent state supreme court cases about the relationship between direct democracy and the power of state legislatures.
Hoke County Board of Education v. State
State legislators are asking the court to find that the district court judge lacked subject matter jurisdiction when, on remand from the supreme court, he calculated how much certain education improvements would cost.
Brown v. Secretary of State
Held that a partisan gerrymandering claim raises a nonjusticiable political question
Jessie Hill
Jessie Hill is the Judge Ben C. Green Professor of Law and director of the Reproductive Rights Law Initiative at Case Western Reserve University.
Religious Freedom Claims Could Provide New Path to Protect Abortion Rights
Challenges to abortion bans by religious plaintiffs have had mixed results.
State Constitutions and the Limits of Criminal Punishments
This symposium will engage with the growing legal and intellectual movement to challenge excessive criminal punishments via state constitutional prohibitions on cruel and unusual punishments and related clauses.
Lake v. Hobbs
Election denier Kari Lake claims her errors in the election process of her 2022 gubernatorial loss should result in vacating the results.
