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11 Sep 2017, 9:01 pm by Joanna L. Grossman
What’s to be done with a police officer who has a baby, returns to work, and wishes to continue breastfeeding her baby? [read post]
The rally of the alt-right in Charlottesville, Virginia—a motley crew of white supremacists, neo-Nazis, Ku Klux Klan types and anti-Semites—took many people by surprise. [read post]
Thanks to the Twitter habit of Donald Trump and those on his White House team, the public has been treated to a number of disturbing exchanges in which they spew accusations, threats, and other attacks against one another, as well as on members of the other two branches of government. [read post]
24 Jul 2017, 9:01 pm by Joanna L. Grossman
Two women, known only in court papers as “Jane Doe” and “Jane Doe I,” were in a non-marital, romantic relationship for four years before agreeing to start a family using an anonymous donor. [read post]
3 Jul 2017, 9:01 pm by Joanna L. Grossman and Dale Carpenter
Texas law requires children who attend public schools to begin their days with this trifecta: the Pledge of Allegiance, the Texas Pledge (“Honor the Texas flag; I pledge allegiance to thee, Texas, one state, under God, one and indivisible”), and a minute of silence to “reflect, pray, meditate, or engage in any other silent activity that is not likely to interfere with or distract another student. [read post]
2 Jul 2017, 8:40 pm by Dale Carpenter
” In an amicus brief filed on behalf of two dozen constitutional law and family law professors in Texas. my colleague at SMU Joanna Grossman and I argued that this narrow license-and-recognize interpretation of Obergefell was unjustified: Obergefell repeatedly admonished throughout its opinion that same-sex couples have a right to “civil marriage on the same terms and conditions as opposite-sex couples. [read post]
19 Jun 2017, 9:01 pm by Joanna L. Grossman
The Supreme Court has been asked repeatedly over four decades to answer some version of the same question: do fathers have the same right as mothers to pass on American citizenship to their children? [read post]
8 May 2017, 9:01 pm by Joanna L. Grossman
Aileen Rizo discovered a simple fact and brought it to her employer’s attention: she was paid less for doing the same job as her male counterparts. [read post]
17 Apr 2017, 9:01 pm by Joanna L. Grossman
For the first time, a federal appeals court held squarely that Title VII prohibits discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation. [read post]
13 Mar 2017, 9:01 pm by Joanna L. Grossman
Remember the good ol’ days when a big political scandal was that John Edwards had fathered a daughter in adultery with a videographer on his 2008 presidential campaign while his wife suffered from cancer? [read post]
7 Mar 2017, 9:01 pm by Michael C. Dorf
However, as Professor Joanna Grossman explained last week, the Trump administration disavowed the Obama administration policy, citing concerns about states’ rights. [read post]
27 Feb 2017, 9:01 pm by Joanna L. Grossman
At the end of a dizzying first month of Trump’s presidency, the Department of Justice and Department of Education issued a “Dear Colleague” letter withdrawing two statements of policy about the rights of transgender students. [read post]
14 Feb 2017, 11:43 am by Joanna L. Grossman
Women’s health is under attack—here, there, and everywhere.Domestically, we see Trump’s pick of a Supreme Court nominee, Neil Gorsuch, who he suspects might vote to overturn Roe v. [read post]
30 Jan 2017, 9:01 pm by Joanna L. Grossman
Our new vice president, Mike Pence, has taken to the media (social and otherwise) to declare his plan to stop taxpayer funding of abortions. [read post]
26 Jan 2017, 12:51 pm by Tracy Thomas
Joanna Grossman, Moving Forward, Looking Back: A Retrospective on Sexual Harassment Law Abstract: The fiftieth anniversary of Title VII provides an appropriate occasion to look back to an era when women suffered sexual abuse in the workplace (and many other... [read post]
The Supreme Court has opted for marriage equality, expanding the number of people whose sexual relationships are protected by law. [read post]