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4 Mar 2018, 1:00 pm by Anamika Roy
With the rise of the #MeToo movement and heightened awareness about sexual harassment in the workplace, the General Assembly is weighing bills that would outlaw provisions in an employment contract or policy waiving the right to a legal remedy for sexual harassment claims. [read post]
4 Mar 2018, 8:00 am by Family Law
From Insider Louisville: A bill outlawing child marriage in Kentucky had been expected to receive a vote in the Senate Judiciary Committee on Thursday, but that vote has been delayed due to last-minute opposition by the conservative Family Foundation of... [read post]
1 Mar 2018, 12:59 pm by Steve Lash
With the Senate’s 46-0 vote, attention shifts to the House of Delegates, which has yet to consider the expansion that would outlaw a one-time online bullying incident conducted with the perpetrator’s knowledge that his or her single “maliciously” sent ... [read post]
Justice Department memoranda, known as the “torture memos,” declared that enhanced interrogation was lawful because U.S. and international law specifically outlawed “torture” but did not make “cruel, inhuman, or degrading treatment” a crime. [read post]
27 Feb 2018, 6:14 am by Second Circuit Civil Rights Blog
As the majority notes, courts have interpreted Title VII to cover subsets of gender discrimination even though Congress did not endeavor to outlaw that behavior, including sexual harassment, which the Supreme Court held violates Title VII in 1986, more than 20 years after Title VII was enacted.Justice Cabranes issues a concurring opinion (along with some of the other judges). [read post]
26 Feb 2018, 8:00 am by Dan Ernst
Running the Robed Gauntlet: Southern State Courts' Interpretation of the Emancipation ProclamationBook Reviews And here’s the TOC for 58:1 (March 2018):EditorialAlfred L Brophy; Stefan Vogenauer“In a Democracy We Should Distribute the Lawyers”: The Campaign for a Federal Legal Service, 1933-1945Daniel R ErnstThe Lawfulness of Gender Reassignment SurgeryPenney Lewis“Patent Property”: The Fulton Lawyers and the Franchising of ProgressTimothy MilfordSlavery, Race, and… [read post]
25 Feb 2018, 9:30 pm by Richard J. Pierce, Jr.
The second step on the road back to democratic governance is to outlaw caucus rules and practices like the Hastert rule that reduce deliberation, a step senators from both parties have already suggested. [read post]
24 Feb 2018, 7:37 am by Alfred Brophy
Rosen, Slavery, Race, and Outlawry: The Concept of the Outlaw in Nineteenth-Century Abolitionist RhetoricBook Reviews Claire Zalc, De´naturalise´s. [read post]
23 Feb 2018, 2:45 am by Scott Bomboy
Another unusual proposed amendment came in 1933, when Representative Wesley Lloyd of Washington state wanted Congress to outlaw millionaires using a constitutional amendment. [read post]
19 Feb 2018, 1:36 pm by Anthony Carbone, PC
New Jersey gas station owners didn’t want this to happen in their state, so they persuaded state officials to ban and outlaw self-service gas stations. [read post]
16 Feb 2018, 1:04 pm by Andrew Crocker
Third, “strong” encryption cannot be successfully fully outlawed, given its proliferation, the fact that a large proportion of encryption systems are open-source, and the fact that U.S. law has limited reach on the global stage. [read post]
15 Feb 2018, 4:37 pm by Sabrina I. Pacifici
It wasn’t until 1968 that the Fair Housing Act outlawed this type of discrimination. [read post]
15 Feb 2018, 1:29 pm by Lawrenz Fares
The American Civil Liberties Union of Ohio [advocacy website] has filed a lawsuit [complaint, PDF] challenging Ohio H.B. 214 [materials], a bill which outlaws abortions following a diagnosis of Down Syndrome. [read post]
13 Feb 2018, 4:00 am by Jessica Clogg
This includes child welfare apprehension, residential schools, the outlawing of our sacred ceremonies, the prohibitions against both voting and hiring lawyers, the impact of the criminal justice system, and [the taking of land and resources] . . . [read post]
12 Feb 2018, 10:30 am by John K. Ross
Last month, however, a state trial court ruled that the law—which was specifically enacted to outlaw Opternative—does not harm the company, and so the suit cannot proceed. [read post]
12 Feb 2018, 8:42 am by Eugene Volokh
Washington Post (Vincent Bevins) reports on the plan, which would also outlaw extramarital sex: Prodded by religious conservatives, Indonesia is moving toward outlawing gay sex — and even sex outside marriage — in a jarring change for a country long seen as a bastion of tolerance in the Islamic world.... [read post]
10 Feb 2018, 5:00 am by Family Law
From Time: Riding a tsunami of moral conservatism and anti-gay prejudice, Indonesia’s Islamic political parties appear on the cusp of a major victory: outlawing all sex outside marriage. [read post]
9 Feb 2018, 7:53 pm
"Bermuda Outlaws Gay Marriage, Less Than a Year After It Became Legal": Megan Specia will have this article in Saturday's edition of The New York Times. [read post]