State Constitutional Law: Rights & Protections

CHAPTER 1 OVERVIEW AND PROCEDURE GUIDE: STATE CONSTITUTIONAL LAW PRACTICE
§ 1.01 History: State Constitutional Law
§ 1.02 Procedural Guide: State Constitutional Law
§ 1.03 Provisions of the United States Constitution’s Bill of Rights and State Constitutional Counterparts
§ 1.04 Bibliography

CHAPTER 2 THE FIRST AMENDMENT
§ 2.01 Introduction
§ 2.02 Free Exercise of Religion
§ 2.03 Right to Refuse Medical Treatment on Religious Grounds
§ 2.04 Anti-Establishment
§ 2.05 Freedom of Speech
§ 2.06 Freedom of Press
§ 2.07 Right of Assembly
§ 2.08 Right to Petition
§ 2.09 Right to Organize
§ 2.10 Bibliography

CHAPTER 3 THE RIGHT TO BEAR ARMS
§ 3.01 Federal Court Analysis
§ 3.02 State Court Analysis
§ 3.03 Bibliography

CHAPTER 4 THE FOURTH AMENDMENT
§ 4.01 Search and Seizure
§ 4.02 Vehicle Searches and Seizures
§ 4.03 Civil Non-Criminal Proceedings
§ 4.04 Pen Registers
§ 4.05 Search Incident to Arrest
§ 4.06 Pre-Incarceration Search / Strip
§ 4.07 Open Fields Doctrine / Aerial Surveillance
§ 4.08 Consent Searches
§ 4.09 Roadblocks
§ 4.10 Reasonable Mistake of Law
§ 4.11 Bodily Contents
§ 4.12 Search of Prisoners/Probationer/Parolees
§ 4.13 Dog Sniffing / Electronic Devices
§ 4.14 Trash/Abandoned Items, Expectation of Privacy
§ 4.15 Administrative Searches
§ 4.16 Participant Conversations
§ 4.17 Search Following Arrest in The Home
§ 4.18 Derivative Evidence, Poisoned Trees, and Cats Out of the Bag
§ 4.19 Search Warrants
§ 4.20 Bibliography

CHAPTER 5 THE FIFTH AMENDMENT
§ 5.01 Introduction
§ 5.02 Double Jeopardy
§ 5.03 Self Incrimination
§ 5.04 Fifth Amendment Due Process
§ 5.05 The Takings Clause
§ 5.06 Miranda Rights
§ 5.07 Grand Jury
§ 5.08 Bibliography

CHAPTER 6 THE SIXTH AMENDMENT
§ 6.01 Right to a Speedy Trial
§ 6.02 Right to Counsel
§ 6.03 Bibliography

CHAPTER 7 THE EIGHTH AMENDMENT
§ 7.01 What is Excessive?
§ 7.02 Cruel and Unusual Punishment
§ 7.03 Bibliography

CHAPTER 8 THE FOURTEENTH AMENDMENT
§ 8.01 Equal Protection
§ 8.02 Right to Privacy
§ 8.03 Bibliography

CHAPTER 9 BILL OF ATTAINDER AND EX POST FACTO
§ 9.01 Introduction
§ 9.02 Bills of Attainder
§ 9.03 Ex Post Facto
§ 9.04 Bibliography

CHAPTER 10 SCRUTINY
§ 10.01 Scrutiny in the U.S. Supreme Court
§ 10.02 State Court Variations and Expansions of Scrutiny Levels
§ 10.03 Capital Cases
§ 10.04 Right to Vote
§ 10.05 Mask Mandates
§ 10.06 Advancing Strict Scrutiny in Other State Court Settings
§ 10.07 Altering the Federal Three-Tier Approach
§ 10.08 Bibliography

CHAPTER 11 RIGHTS PROVISIONS IN STATE CONSTITUTIONS BUT NOT IN FEDERAL CONSTITUTION
§ 11.01 State Constitutional Law
§ 11.02 Specific State Constitutional Rights
§ 11.03 Interesting Issues in State Constitutional Law
§ 11.04 Bibliography