State cases, All: Topic & summary

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California's public-school, general-fund financing structure violates equal protection and is invalid because education is a "fundamental" right under the California and US Constitutions, and because the "wealth" of a school district is a "suspect classification".

Small claims courts do not have jurisdiction to evict someone when title is placed at issue, including but not limited to homes being purchased via real estate contract.

Failure to provide cure language in termination notice to domestic violence victim deprived court of jurisdiction in eviction action.

Man shining shoes was independent contractor but was entitled to wage protections under Iowa law.

A person can have both a criminal and a civil no contact order.

Fifteen minutes a side was not enough time to present a domestic abuse case.

A parent has the right to counsel in a private termination of parental rights case.

The landlord has a duty to mitigate damages and has the burden of proving actual damages in an action against the tenant.

There is an implied warranty of habitability when a landlord enters into a residential lease with a tenant.

People who owe court debt in different cases cannot be forced to repay that debt as a condition precedent to expunging a different case.

Struck down a rule that considered people who were arrested and involuntarily held in jail to have “voluntarily quit” without good cause, for the purposes of denying them unemployment benefits.

Exemptions in the law apply to administrative offsets for debts owed to the state.

Medical and mental health records are generally protected from discovery in civil cases.

In all guardianship cases the court must consider whether a limited guardianship is appropriate, and apply appropriate burden of proof.

Service of eviction notices by certified mail, whether or not the person picked up the mail, was held to be unconstitutional.

When a tenant is being evicted for breach of the rental agreement, the landlord must give a notice to cure the breach before the lease is terminated.

When rent is due, a landlord must give a tenant a three-day notice to cure the rent due before the lease is terminated.

New York default judgment not entitled to full faith and credit in NJ due to lack of jurisdiction, in scam where NJ resident had no real connection with NY.

Reverses lower court and holds that county welfare board does not have standing to pursue an appeal from a decision of the state welfare department in favor of the recipient.

Along with State v. Conley, established right to counsel in NJ municipal court when imprisonment or large fine is actually threatened or when there is a likelihood of conviction.