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Washington Supreme Court Indicates Agreements Prohibiting Employees from Working for Competitors During Employment May Violate State Law
On January 23, 2025, the Washington Supreme Court held that two Washington workers can argue that their former employer imposed ...
Pride puppies and a charter school: a look at the blockbuster religion cases at the Supreme Court
The Supreme Court took more religious rights cases in recent years than it heard in the previous two decades. Is it eroding ...
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 ...
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 ...
The Supreme Court’s New Standard For Challenging Tax Regulations
The Supreme Court newly empowered the judiciary in reviewing agency regulations. What difference will it make for the tax ...
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Plans for new gun regulations progress in Washington Legislature
Sandra Ramirez’s son Joseph was hanging out with friends last February at the home of a boy whose parents owned a gun.
WA chief justice reflects on pandemic’s lasting imprint on state courts
Stephens also highlighted the court’s Blake decision. In the landmark ruling in 2021, the state Supreme Court struck down Washington’s law criminalizing drug possession. As a result, convictions under ...
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 ...
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Washington State University found liable in fraternity hazing death of Sam Martinez
The Appeals Court decision overturns that finding. The university may appeal to the Washington State Supreme Court, but a WSU spokesperson said they are evaluating options. “Washington State ...
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 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 ...
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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 ...