April 11, 2024
The U.S. Supreme Court must clarify that states are categorically prohibited from requiring plaintiffs to exhaust local administrative remedies before pursuing claims that state officials violated federal rights, several Alabamans told the court Thursday, warning that state prerequisites obliterate federal rights.
January 12, 2024
The U.S. Supreme Court agreed Friday to resolve lingering questions over the breadth of its previous rulings prohibiting states from requiring litigants to exhaust state administrative remedies before pursuing federal right violation claims, in a dispute over Alabama's processing of unemployment benefits claims.