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Showing 1 to 6 of 6 for “"state supreme courts"”.
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Lawyers Need Law: A Study of Constitutional Arguments Made to State Supreme Courts
… over the increasing conservatism of the U.S. Supreme Court, state judges, lawyers, and scholars in the 1970s argued for a new judicial federalism. State courts, using state constitutions, may provide protections exceeding the federal minimum. In addition to allowing states to experiment with …
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Attacking and Rewarding State Supreme Courts, The Causes of Court Targeting Legislation in U.S. States
… targeting legislation happens with regularity in state legislatures. Understanding the causes of court curbing is critical because of the potential threat these bills pose to judicial independence. It is equally important to understand why legislatures choose to reward their courts. This …
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Gatekeeping and the Judicial Processing of Scientific Information
… (political) purposes. Differential treatment by state jurisdictions has created an empirical puzzle whereby state jurisdictions vary in their validation of scientific information. The goal of this investigation is to explain the legal and political conditions under which novel scientific evidence …
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The interplay of judicial review and federalism choices in Brazil after the Republican Constitution of 1988
… of Brazilian federalism, namely: federal union, states, and municipalities. The first sub-question targets the inclusion of local governments as autonomous constitutional agents. It considers annexation law as a proxy for local powers, comparing the decisions of the Brazilian Supreme Court (STF) …
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Reexamining the "Constitutional Revolution of 1937": Evolution, Revolution, or Restoration and the "Fall" of Economic Due Process
… Roosevelt’s triumphant victory over the Supreme Court in the Spring of 1937 has become legend. In this story, the threat posed by the President’s “courtpacking” plan caused the Supreme Court to capitulate to his political will and reverse the principal tenets of its prior constitutional …
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Equity in Funding for Iowa's Public Schools
… and compare the education finance laws of three states, with particular attention to infrastructure and facility funding. Ohio and Texas entered the courts due to questions of equity in school facility funding and were selected for this study. lowa faced litigation in March 2002 from a coalition …