Pennsylvania’s Act 13 Archives
Pennsylvania’s Act 13

02/17/2015: Ohio high court held local ordinances preempted by state oil and gas regulations

01/05/2015: North Carolina fracking rules challenged by environmental conservation group

12/19/2014: New York governor announced plan to ban fracking statewide

08/06/2014: Texas oil drilling company filed response to Florida DEP lawsuit

06/30/2014: New York top court ruled towns may ban fracking

12/19/2013: Pennsylvania Supreme Court ruled portions of shale drilling law unconstitutional

08/19/2013: Michigan judge dismissed fracking lawsuit

07/26/2012: Pennsylvania appeals court partially struck down Act 13

THIS DAY @ LAW

UK parliament rejected J.S. Mill's proposal to give women the vote

On May 20, 1867, the British Parliament rejected by 196-73 an amendment to the 1867 Reform Act presented by John Stuart Mill that would have permitted women to vote. Review Mill's 1869 work The Subjection of Women.

Supreme Court applies Free Exercise Clause to state governments

On May 20, 1940, the United States Supreme Court held that the Free Exercise Clause of the First Amendment applied to state governments in Cantwell v. Connecticut under the incorporation doctrine, which applied the protections of the Bill of Rights to state governments through the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment. Learn more about the Incorporation Doctrine from the Cornell Law Schools' Legal Information Institute.