As discussed in our recent article, the Virginia General Assembly voted to allow most criminal defendants and civil litigants to have an appeal as of right to the Court of Appeals of Virginia starting ...

Alito Challenges Court on 'Original Jurisdiction' An internal dispute within the court over when the justices should exercise their original jurisdiction became public again yesterday in what could ...

Municipalities in Pennsylvania are "creatures of the state," and thus, have only those powers that have been granted to them by the commonwealth. One of the foundational statutes of Pennsylvania ...

In an order yesterday, the Supreme Court denied the motion filed by the state of Texas for permission to file a complaint against the state of California over a California law that prohibits ...

Insofar as the justices split, it was due to long-standing disagreement over the nature of the Court's original jurisdiction. This morning, as expected, the Supreme Court rejected the state of ...

Senate Speaker Pro Tempore Bart Hester, R-Cave Springs, said Monday a bill that would grant the Arkansas Court of Appeals original jurisdiction of certain constitutional challenges to state law is ...

This case involves a state constitutional challenge to South Carolina’s 2022 congressional redistricting plan, which legislators admit was drawn to entrench a 6-1 Republican majority in the state’s ...

Jurisdiction gives a federal court the power to hear a case. Jurisdiction matters at the outset of a lawsuit. It matters during discovery. It even matters after summary judgment. Jurisdiction matters ...