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10 Feb 2020, 9:01 pm by Joanna L. Grossman
In 2017, the City of Philadelphia took action to address a proven and substantial pay gap for women and minorities. [read post]
The legal academy lost one of its finest scholars and teachers when Professor Deborah Rhode of Stanford Law School died on January 8, 2020, at the age of 68. [read post]
21 Feb 2021, 9:01 pm by Joanna L. Grossman
A law to legalize commercial surrogacy took effect in New York on February 15, 2021. [read post]
22 Mar 2021, 9:00 pm by Joanna L. Grossman
Int’l(1977), the Court invalidated a New York law that, among other things, restricted the sale of contraceptives to minors younger than sixteen, but sidestepped the underlying question of whether minors have a constitutional right to access to contraception. [read post]
10 Oct 2016, 9:01 pm by Joanna L. Grossman and Linda C. McClain
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 by Joanna L. Grossman
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]
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]
On May 12, 2020, an amendment to Utah’s law against bigamy went into effect. [read post]
For example, as discussed in the recent spate of transgender bathroom controversies and discussed in a separate column today by Joanna Grossman, Title IX regulations expressly permit schools to provide different bathroom and locker room facilities on the basis of sex (although OCR has opined that schools do not have the power to dictate which facility a transgender student must use, and the U.S. [read post]
8 Apr 2019, 9:01 pm by Joanna L. Grossman
The Texas legislature meets for 140 days every two years, during which time it may well tackle some real issues. [read post]
28 Nov 2018, 9:00 pm by Joanna L. Grossman and Deborah L. Brake
Part Two in a Two-Part SeriesProposed new Title IX regulations purport to help students who experience sexual harassment and assault, but predominantly help schools and those accused of sexual violence instead. [read post]
20 May 2019, 9:01 pm by Joanna L. Grossman
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]
12 Feb 2018, 9:01 pm by Joanna L. Grossman
While same-sex couples have been able to legally marry across the nation for almost three years—and in some states, as many as 14 years, significant questions still arise about the treatment of children born into such marriages. [read post]
You might think that celebrities, who can make millions of dollars singing or playing basketball, would be able and willing to afford a good lawyer, and a good estate plan—a plan that includes a proper will, explaining who gets what after they die; or (more likely today) a solid and well-drafted trust. [read post]
Eric Greitens is the current governor of Missouri and was once a rising star in the Republican Party. [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]