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A blaze of recent publicity, and a great deal of legal maneuvering, has turned on the issue of the conservatorship of Britney Spears. [read post]
There’s an old Latin maxim: silent leges inter arma. [read post]
The Supreme Court has opted for marriage equality, expanding the number of people whose sexual relationships are protected by law. [read post]
In June 2022, the Supreme Court eliminated constitutional protection for abortion—forty-nine years after it had first announced that protection in Roe v. [read post]
After a dramatic shift in public opinion, the Supreme Court (by a narrow majority) made gay marriage a national reality. [read post]
15 Jan 2018, 9:01 pm by Joanna L. Grossman
Thank you, Hollywood, for providing law professors with the perfect exam hypothetical about pay discrimination. [read post]
3 Dec 2018, 9:00 pm by Joanna L. Grossman
It’s hard to read a single day’s news without encountering a new threat to reproductive rights. [read post]
On June 24, 2022, the Supreme Court, dominated now by a bloc of six arch-conservatives, overruled Roe v. [read post]
25 May 2015, 9:01 pm by Joanna L. Grossman
Parentage law—the rules that determine a child’s legal parents—has had to bend at many points in the past few decades to accommodate the so-called new family. [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]
11 Apr 2022, 9:01 pm by Joanna L. Grossman
It can be hard to keep up with the cruel and mean-spirited culture wars being waged by GOP lawmakers around the country, from unconstitutional abortion bans to laws prohibiting the teaching of truth about racism to gender-policing of high school sports. [read post]
9 Dec 2021, 9:01 pm by Joanna L. Grossman
Abortion rights stand on a scary precipice right now, and the Supreme Court will soon decide whether they survive or fall.On November 1, 2021, the Supreme Court heard oral argument in Whole Woman’s Health v. [read post]
22 Sep 2021, 9:01 pm by Joanna L. Grossman
On September 1, 2021, the law known as “SB 8” took effect in Texas. [read post]
As many in the United States struggle with unemployment, layoffs, furloughs, pay cuts, and other adverse effects of the COVID-19 pandemic, pregnant women struggle just to be treated just like everyone else. [read post]
When President Trump returned to the White House after four days in Walter Reed Hospital due to contracting COVID-19, his first act was to remove his face mask on camera and to shove it into his pocket. [read post]
7 Nov 2019, 9:01 pm by Joanna L. Grossman
It’s a tale as old as time: a woman in power obviously slept her way to the top. [read post]
7 Sep 2020, 9:01 pm by Joanna L. Grossman
Rather than using his position of power to help people cope with the raging COVID-19 pandemic, U.S. [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]
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]