Spin Control: State Supreme Court wrestles with ban on large-capacity magazines
The state currently limits magazines for semiautomatic firearms to no more than 10 rounds. After the ban went into effect in ...
Cruel and unusual? Supreme Court declines to review Mississippi voting ban for convicted felons
Voting rights experts say Mississippi’s restrictions are among the harshest because the state bans voting by first-time ...
Clarence Thomas Calls Out Judges for Disrespecting Supreme Court Rulings
Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas slammed a circuit court of appeals for not adhering to legal precedent in a dissent ...
Supreme Court to decide whether states can allow religious public schools
The Supreme Court agreed Friday to consider whether the state of Oklahoma may fund a proposed religious charter school, the ...
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Washington Supreme Court Says Employers May Not Unreasonably Restrain Employees From Working for Competitors
In a case of first impression, the Washington Supreme Court interpreted Washington law regarding noncompete agreements to broadly protect ...
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WA chief justice reflects on pandemic’s lasting imprint on state courts
Like everything else, Washington’s court system was upended by COVID-19. Court proceedings paused or moved online. Cases piled up. Justice was delayed.
Hobbs is first Democrat in 20 years to appoint justice to Arizona Supreme Court
Hobbs nominated Judge Maria Elena Cruz, a lifelong resident of Yuma, Arizona, to the state Supreme Court. Cruz will replace Justice Robert Brutinel, who retired last year. “Judge Maria Elena Cruz has ...
Supreme Court Justices Could Back Trump's Birthright Citizenship Move
The Supreme Court will likely hear the case after several states teamed to try to stop Trump's birthright executive order.
Supreme Court rejects Republican-backed Montana case based on controversial election law theory
The Supreme Court has turned back an election law case out of Montana that relied on a controversial legal theory with the ...
Supreme Court leaves in place Mississippi’s voting bar for people convicted of some crimes
The Supreme Court has left in place Mississippi’s Jim Crow-era practice of removing voting rights from people convicted of ...
Supreme Court will weigh approval for US’ 1st publicly funded religious charter school, in Oklahoma
The Supreme Court has agreed to take on a new culture war dispute: whether the nation’s first publicly funded religious ...
Wisconsin voters gear up for another high-stakes state Supreme Court race
Dane County Judge Susan Crawford, a liberal, will face former Wisconsin Attorney General conservative Brad Schimel ...