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Saturday, December 19, 2020 at 01:41 PM
As the 2020 legislative cycle approaches, legislators across the South are preparing and pre-filing legislation to address emerging and relevant policy issues in their states. With its regional focus, the Southern Legislative Conference (SLC) is uniquely positioned to identify and research current and emerging policy issues and trends. This report was prepared by Anne Roberts Brody , policy and program manager, and Roger Moore and Cody Allen , policy analysts, and provides a sampling of issues and trends that are anticipated to emerge during the 2020 legislative term. State actions referenced...
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Friday, December 18, 2020 at 01:59 PM
In an unauthored opinion in Trump v. New York , the U.S. Supreme Court refused to decide whether President Trump could lawfully and constitutionally direct the Secretary of Commerce to provide information to him about the number of undocumented persons so he could exclude them from the census...
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Friday, December 18, 2020 at 10:38 AMIn Danville Christian Academy v. Beshear the U.S. Supreme Court allowed a Sixth Circuit decision to remain in place which upheld Kentucky Governor Andy Beshear’s executive order closing all K-12 schools, including religious schools, from November 18 until January 4 due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The...
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Thursday, December 17, 2020 at 10:02 AMThe U.S. Supreme Court sent two cases involving limits on religious service attendance back to lower courts to reconsider in light of Roman Catholic Diocese of Brooklyn, New York v. Cuomo . In that case the Court ruled 5-4 that New York’s limits on attending religious services to 10 or 25 people...
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Wednesday, December 16, 2020 at 03:34 PMIn NCAA. v. Alston and AAC v. Alston the U.S. Supreme Court will decide whether the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) eligibility rules which prohibit pay-to-play violate antitrust law. The Ninth Circuit ruled against the NCAA. Numerous state legislatures have considered and some have...
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Monday, December 14, 2020 at 04:58 PMAs a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, the percentage of Americans who work remotely has increased from roughly 15% to 50% . The transition to telework has required everyone to adjust, but it has posed unique challenges for some people with disabilities. The Council of State Governments’ (CSG)...
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Monday, December 14, 2020 at 09:22 AMOn Friday night the U.S. Supreme Court rejected Texas’s lawsuit challenging the results of the presidential election in Georgia, Michigan, Wisconsin, and Pennsylvania. Texas filed its lawsuit directly in the Supreme Court rather than in a lower court first relying on a constitutional provision...
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Friday, December 11, 2020 at 09:15 AMIn Carney v. Adams the Supreme Court held unanimously that James Adams lacked standing to challenge a Delaware constitutional provision that requires that appointments to Delaware’s major courts reflect a partisan balance. Delaware’s Constitution states that no more than a bare majority of members...
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Thursday, December 10, 2020 at 01:18 PMIn a unanimous decision the U.S. Supreme Court held in Rutledge v. Pharmaceutical Care Management Association that states may regulate the price at which pharmacy benefit managers (PBMs) reimburse pharmacies for the cost of prescription drugs without violating the Employee Retirement Income...
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Wednesday, December 9, 2020 at 09:14 AMYesterday, in a one-sentence statement containing no recorded dissents, the U.S. Supreme Court refused to strike down Pennsylvania’s no-excuse absentee ballot scheme. December 8, 2020, was the “safe harbor” deadline for the votes of Pennsylvania’s presidential and vice-presidential electors to be...