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18 May 2020, 9:00 pm
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]
22 Sep 2021, 9:01 pm
On September 1, 2021, the law known as “SB 8” took effect in Texas. [read post]
9 Oct 2017, 9:01 pm
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]
3 Jul 2017, 9:01 pm
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]
29 Jun 2020, 9:01 pm
Reproductive rights advocates and activists breathed a collectively sigh of relief when the Supreme Court issued its opinion in June Medical Services, L.L.C. v. [read post]
21 Oct 2019, 9:01 pm
Elizabeth Warren reported that her contract as a teacher was not renewed when she was visibly pregnant at the end of her first year. [read post]
8 Oct 2020, 9:01 pm
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]
26 Nov 2018, 9:00 pm
Who is responsible for sexual harassment and assault in schools? [read post]
25 May 2015, 9:01 pm
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]
5 Jan 2015, 9:01 pm
The federal Office for Civil Rights (OCR), which is charged with implementation of Title IX, has said very publicly that it is focused on the problem of sexual assault and violence in schools. [read post]
22 Mar 2015, 9:01 pm
For decades, New York resisted no-fault divorce. [read post]
26 Apr 2021, 9:01 pm
Joanna Harper, a researcher and medical physicist, estimates that only 50 out of 200,000 athletes competing in women’s college sports are transgender (or 0.025%). [read post]
18 Jun 2014, 9:01 pm
Sometimes it’s all about the way you ask a question. [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]
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]
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]
26 Sep 2016, 9:01 pm
In the year 2000, a lifetime ago in family law terms, the Supreme Court issued an important decision, Troxel v. [read post]
