The majority rejected a variety
of state constitutional law challenges, including the right to trial by jury, the right to a remedy, equal protection and separation of powers.
Legal challenges involve aspects
of state constitutional law — separation of powers, due process, equal protection and, prominently of late, the right to trial by jury.
The equal footing doctrine, also known as equality of the states, is the principle in
United States constitutional law that all states admitted to the Union under the Constitution since 1789 enter on equal footing with the 13 states already in the Union at that time.
The Missouri Supreme Court «agreed with the trial court's decision to dismiss several counts (including partisan gerrymandering claims), but remanded for a determination of whether the congressional districts (particularly districts 3 and 5) were sufficiently compact
under state constitutional law.»
In October, the Kansas Supreme Court upheld a state law limiting noneconomic damages to $ 250,000
from state constitutional law challenges in Miller v. Johnson.
If you
want state constitutional law you shouldn't go past Anne Twomey's The Constitution of New South Wales (2004)- you will learn more than you thought it possible to know about Australian constitutional law, history and practice.)
Incorporation of federal constitutional protections, as defined by the Supreme Court, has
displaced state constitutional law as the principal source of individual rights.
In other words, local control is primarily a matter of state policy rather than a constraint imposed by federal or
state constitutional law on the states» role in education.
[xxi] See Joseph P. Viteritti, Blaine's Wake: School Choice, the First Amendment, and
State Constitutional Law, 21 Harv.
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state constitutional law, employment law, and education law.
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State Constitutional Law.
«What ever happened to
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state Constitutional law.
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state constitutional law.
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