Rachael K. Hinkle

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    How one circuit court judge can stop a higher court from establishing a legal precedent

How one circuit court judge can stop a higher court from establishing a legal precedent

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Not all legal cases establish a legal precedent – federal circuit court appeal opinions often go unpublished and thus only apply to the dispute in question. In new research, Morgan L.W. Hazelton, Rachael K. Hinkle, and Jee Seon Jeon find that the decision whether or not to publish such opinions can have an influence on whether a judge issues […]

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    How states learn from the success or failure of other states’ laws in federal courts.

How states learn from the success or failure of other states’ laws in federal courts.

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Why make the same mistakes as those who have gone before you? In new research into state lawmaking, Rachael K. Hinkle finds that legislators often put that principle into practice. She finds that when the Supreme Court rules that a state’s law is constitutional, it is 27 percent more likely that another state will adopt that same type of […]

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