Emma Hetherington

2 months ago | statecourtreport.org | Emma Hetherington |Sarah Kessler

Held that a law repealing a prior time bar for child sex abuse claims — which had prevented victims from suing once they turned 38 — did not violate a defendant’s vested right to be free from liability because the prior time bar was an ordinary statute of limitations, not a statute of repose. The court concluded that the expiration of a statute of limitations does not create a vested right, while the running of a statute of repose does.

Dec 5, 2024 | statecourtreport.org | Rex Bossert |Bridget Lavender |Emma Hetherington |Ting Cheng

In a country where the federal Constitution fails to guarantee sex equality, state Equal Rights Amendments (ERAs) and local laws have become essential safeguards for democracy. New York was one of several states to pass an amendment enshrining abortion rights into the state constitution last month — and the only one to do so with an inclusively worded ERA.

Oct 21, 2024 | statecourtreport.org | Rex Bossert |Bridget Lavender |Emma Hetherington |Quinn Yeargain

As federal same-sex marriage rights appear increasingly vulnerable, voters are removing discriminatory language from their state constitutions.   Decades after it started, the movement to protect marriage equality at the state level is gaining renewed urgency. In 2004, the nation was embroiled in a political and cultural clash over whether people of the same sex should be allowed to marry — and the “traditional marriage” set was winning.

Feb 27, 2024 | derbyshiretimes.co.uk | Emma Hetherington

From pupil-teachers to the married teachers ban, professional qualifications to private tutoring, sewing classes for the blind to subsidised cultural trips to London - as well as a tragic classroom accident - one family from Derbyshire can chart the changing face of education through four generations from the late 1800s right up to the present day.

Oct 16, 2023 | statecourtreport.org | Charles Gardner Geyh |Emma Hetherington |Rex Bossert |Sarah Kessler

Colorado’s highest court is the Colorado Supreme Court. The court has six associate justices and one chief justice, who is selected by majority vote of the supreme court justices. (Source: Colorado Supreme Court; Colorado Constitution)Judicial SelectionThe governor appoints Colorado Supreme Court justices from a list provided by a judicial nominating commission. After at least two years on the court, the justice stands in an unopposed yes/no retention vote in Colorado’s next general election.