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22 Mar 2021, 9:00 pm
Excited to learn that seven Texas teams had made it into the NCAA “March Madness” tournament, Governor Greg Abbott recorded a video message declaring Texas “#1 at everything. [read post]
18 Jan 2016, 9:01 pm
Media reports abound about a lawsuit filed by a woman in California against a man in Georgia who hired her to carry children for him as a surrogate. [read post]
12 Apr 2016, 9:01 pm
For better or worse, the modern face of polygamy in the United States is Kody Brown, a floppy-haired man with one legal wife, three “spiritual” wives, and more than a dozen kids. [read post]
29 Feb 2016, 9:01 pm
In Smith v. [read post]
18 Jun 2014, 9:01 pm
Sometimes it’s all about the way you ask a question. [read post]
13 Mar 2017, 9:01 pm
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]
4 Aug 2014, 9:01 pm
One might watch the Netflix original series Orange Is the New Black and think that the rampant sexual encounters in the prison—involving the warden, correctional officers, and inmates in various pairings—are trumped up to appeal to the prurient interests of viewers. [read post]
1 Aug 2016, 9:01 pm
Although the Supreme Court’s endorsement in 2015 of the right of same-sex couples to marry clarified the status of same-sex couples—or at least their options vis-à-vis formal status—it left open a variety of questions about the formal parent-child relationships in same-sex-couple families. [read post]
10 Oct 2016, 9:01 pm
Remember the good old days when women might have opposed a Republican presidential candidate because they did not agree with his positions on women’s issues? [read post]
14 Nov 2016, 9:01 pm
Pennsylvania may have gone mysteriously red in the dark of election night, but a federal judge in that state has just ruled that Title VII prohibits sexual orientation discrimination. [read post]
5 Aug 2013, 9:01 pm
Surrogacy, an arrangement in which a woman carries a child for others who intend to raise it, is no longer novel. [read post]
10 Nov 2014, 9:01 pm
Joanna L. [read post]
7 Jun 2015, 9:01 pm
Amid discussions of whether the FDA should approve a so-called Viagra for women, which creates a desire for sex (rather than simply facilitating it), it is hard to imagine a world in which it was a crime for a married couple to use birth control. [read post]
11 May 2015, 9:01 pm
An ordinary paternity case became more interesting when DNA testing revealed that the alleged father was genetically related to only one of a set of twins. [read post]
13 Oct 2014, 9:01 pm
According to a recent article in the New York Times by Tamar Lewin, the United States has become – or is in the process of becoming – a mecca for foreign couples seeking the services of a surrogate to gestate a child for them. [read post]
27 Jan 2015, 9:01 pm
The day that proponents and opponents of same-sex marriage have variously feared and desired has come: The Supreme Court has agreed to decide once and for all whether it is unconstitutional for states to ban the celebration of marriages by same-sex couples and/or to refuse recognition to such marriages validly celebrated out of state. [read post]
20 Jul 2015, 9:01 pm
In a recent ruling, the EEOC concluded that alleged discrimination against a gay man—because he was gay—constitutes a form of sex discrimination that violates Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, a federal law banning employment discrimination on the basis of certain protected characteristics. [read post]
2 Mar 2015, 9:01 pm
Parentage law—called upon to answer the often-complicated questions about the identity of a child’s legal parents—boasts several flashpoints. [read post]
8 Apr 2019, 9:01 pm
The Texas legislature meets for 140 days every two years, during which time it may well tackle some real issues. [read post]
20 May 2019, 9:01 pm
The legislative activity around abortion in the past few weeks has been dizzying and disturbing, as some states compete to pass the most unconstitutional and most draconian abortion laws in the hopes of spurring the newly composed U.S. [read post]
