All posts tagged "Center for Justice and Constitutional Litigation"

(Thomas Mitchell, 4TH ST8) – Earlier this month, Nevada Supreme Court heard arguments on procedural matters in a case that seeks to have declared unconstitutional the state’s practice of handing out gifts to businesses that agree to operate in Nevada and create jobs. The plaintiff in the case is Michael Little,...

After incurring thousands of damages, the owners of a church retreat called Little Patch of Heaven, represented...

(NPRI) – Washington, D.C. — The Center for Justice and Constitutional Litigation today filed a Petition for Writ of Certiorari in the Supreme Court of the United States, calling on the Court to reconsider a ruling that forces those whose rights are violated to forgo one constitutional right to vindicate another. The Petition,...

(Carson City, NV) – NPRI’s Center for Justice and Constitutional Litigation has filed its Appellant Opening Brief at the Nevada Supreme Court in its case Pojunis v. State of Nevada, et al. — a lawsuit brought to restore adherence to the separation-of-powers clause found in Article 3, Section 1 of Nevada’s constitution. Within...

NN&V Exclusive (Lori Piotrowski) – Sometimes we take our liberties for granted. After all, we are American...

(NPRI) – NPRI’s Center for Justice and Constitutional Litigation has just filed an Opposition brief maintaining that Sen. Mo Denis’ resignation from his executive-branch job does not moot Pojunis v. State of Nevada, et al., because of several well-established exceptions to the “mootness doctrine.” A link to the full brief in opposition...

(Thomas Mitchell/4th St8) – When I interviewed Joseph Becker, the newly installed head of the Center for...

(NPRI) – The Nevada Policy Research Institute’s Center for Justice and Constitutional Litigationwill file its first case in Nevada State Court on Nov. 30, 2011. The suit, to be filed in the First Judicial District in Carson City, will challenge the state’s long-running violation of vital constitutional principles and will have significant,...