The main issue before the court is whether the Constitutional separation of church and state forbids the state’s civil divorce courts from enforcing terms of the Jewish wedding contract known as a Ketubah - or, for that matter, similar marriage agreements that are part of weddings in other faiths.
The case presents a new issue for the court: Are students - or anyone else - involved in non-governmental disciplinary hearings by private institutions, such as Yale, entitled to the same protections they would have in a government, or judicial hearing, such as the right to confront their accusers?
Connecticut’s Supreme Court wrestled recently over whether a legal challenge to the governor’s emergency powers during the first two years of the COVID-19 pandemic is moot or an opportunity to legall.
Connecticut’s Supreme Court justices sharply questioned opposing lawyers over issues arising from Gov. Ned Lamont s emergency powers during the COVID pandemic.