Mary Adkins

1 month ago | statecourtreport.org | Mary Adkins |Douglas Keith |Julia R. Livingston |Alicia Bannon

State constitutions guarantee equality, freedom from discrimination, fair treatment under the law, and a broad range of other civil rights. Issues that regularly crop up in state court include discrimination on the basis of race, ethnicity, national origin, sex, sexual orientation or identity, age, or disability, abuses of power by government actors, as well as the availability of monetary damages for such state constitutional violations.