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31 Jul 2017, 9:01 pm
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
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]
5 Jul 2017, 3:30 am
Grossman and Deborah L. [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]
28 Jun 2017, 9:01 pm
Two years ago, the U.S. [read post]
19 Jun 2017, 9:01 pm
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]
22 May 2017, 9:01 pm
The typical fight about prenuptial agreements revolves around fairness. [read post]
8 May 2017, 9:01 pm
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
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
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]
27 Feb 2017, 9:01 pm
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
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
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]
23 Jan 2017, 9:01 pm
The Supreme Court has opted for marriage equality, expanding the number of people whose sexual relationships are protected by law. [read post]
28 Dec 2016, 9:01 pm
Boy meets girl. [read post]
12 Dec 2016, 9:01 pm
Grossman, a Justia columnist, is the Ellen K. [read post]
28 Nov 2016, 9:01 pm
A.W. and M.S. had been friends and, at one point roommates, but never intimately involved. [read post]
17 Nov 2016, 8:39 am
Friedman and Joanna L. [read post]
15 Nov 2016, 3:39 pm
*** The tides turned with an EEOC ruling in 2015, in which the agency concluded that alleged discrimination against a gay man–because he was gay–constituted 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 such as sex, race, ethnicity, and religion. [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]
