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9 Oct 2017, 9:01 pm by Joanna L. Grossman
Nine months into Trump’s all-out war on women, it came as little surprise when the president officially rolled back the Affordable Care Act’s contraceptive mandate by allowing employers with religious or moral objections to exempt themselves. [read post]
25 Sep 2017, 9:01 pm by Joanna L. Grossman
The Arizona Supreme Court was asked an increasingly familiar question: Does the US Supreme Court’s ruling in Obergefell v. [read post]
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]