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25 Oct 2014, 1:15 pm
Maybe the right to vote and the right to obtain an abortion should be placed on doctrinally equal footing with textually enumerated rights. [read post]
20 Oct 2014, 10:58 pm by Jeff Gamso
 Colbey became an advocate for the young women. [read post]
17 Oct 2014, 6:30 am by Guest Blogger
 For years, abstinence and monogamy – and avoiding intravenous drug use – were the primary preventive measures that the federal government would advocate. [read post]
16 Oct 2014, 1:48 pm by Frank Montero
(The classic case of the latter involves troubling images of aborted fetuses inserted into ads produced by anti-abortion advocates running for office.) [read post]
15 Oct 2014, 5:45 am by Guest Blogger
  Other advocates have successfully argued the presence of animus against immigrantsas a basis for an equal protection claim.This suggests that animus may have traction with the courts outside the context of same-sex marriage and discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation. [read post]
14 Oct 2014, 11:40 pm
Opponents of the equal rights ordinance are hoping to force a repeal referendum when they get their day in court in January, claiming City Attorney David Feldman wrongly determined they had not gathered enough valid signatures to qualify for the ballot. [read post]
14 Oct 2014, 11:13 am by Matthew R. Arnold, Esq.
” Same-sex marriage advocates say those benefits will include hospital visitation rights for same-sex spouses, participation in family healthcare plans, joint eligibility for public housing and entitlement to Medicaid and Social Security benefits. [read post]
13 Oct 2014, 4:32 am by Nassiri Law
Equal Employment Opportunity Commission will often be the first to intervene in the event of discrimination or another violation against an employee. [read post]
12 Oct 2014, 2:02 am by Florian Mueller
Previously, Google made a misguided (but initially-successful) attempt to advocate an interoperability exception to copyrightability (which was also wrong because Android isn't Java-compatible). [read post]
8 Oct 2014, 9:26 am by Rory Little
“Ignorance of the law is no excuse” is the common law maxim, and Heien argued that this should apply equally to officers stopping cars. [read post]
8 Oct 2014, 4:44 am by Frank Pasquale
Advocates of austerity push for "fair value accounting" and "dynamic scoring," for little discernible purpose other than upward wealth redistribution. [read post]
7 Oct 2014, 5:38 pm
Second, it adds to the already long and impressive string of victories by same-sex marriage advocates in numerous court decisions since the Supreme Court issued United States v. [read post]
7 Oct 2014, 11:32 am by Meena Harris
  Another example is the Equal Credit Opportunity Act, which is very narrow in its application, creating civil rights gaps. [read post]
7 Oct 2014, 8:03 am by JB
The strategy sought, in other words, to prevent marriage equality advocates from using anything like the supermajority-of-states approach to constitutional change.There are, however, alternative methods of legitimating change, namely national popular opinion and elite opinion. [read post]
6 Oct 2014, 12:52 pm by Guest Blogger
  With marriage equality becoming law in three circuits, the number of states in which same-sex couples have equal marriage rights will soon jump from 19 to 30. [read post]
6 Oct 2014, 9:48 am by Suzanne Goldberg
Even still, gay rights advocates reasonably feared that efforts to strip basic antidiscrimination protections from gay people would escalate if the Court did not step in to review Romer. [read post]
6 Oct 2014, 6:09 am
” Plaintiff has made a plausible showing on his First Amendment and equal protection claims. [read post]