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14 Apr 2020, 9:00 pm by Joanna L. Grossman and Mary Ziegler
The global pandemic wrought by COVID-19 has brought unprecedented chaos to virtually every aspect of our lives. [read post]
5 Jan 2023, 9:01 pm by Joanna L. Grossman
I wrote about a bill called the Pregnant Workers Fairness Act (PWFA) in 2012, when it was introduced in Congress for the first time. [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]
9 Dec 2021, 9:01 pm by Joanna L. Grossman
Abortion rights stand on a scary precipice right now, and the Supreme Court will soon decide whether they survive or fall.On November 1, 2021, the Supreme Court heard oral argument in Whole Woman’s Health v. [read post]
21 Oct 2019, 9:01 pm by Joanna L. Grossman
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]
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]
25 May 2015, 9:01 pm by Joanna L. Grossman
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 by Joanna L. Grossman
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]
26 Apr 2021, 9:01 pm by Joanna L. Grossman and Saraswati Rathod
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]
4 Aug 2014, 9:01 pm by Joanna L. Grossman
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 by Joanna L. Grossman
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 by Joanna L. Grossman
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 by Joanna L. Grossman
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]
5 Aug 2013, 9:01 pm by Joanna L. Grossman
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 by Joanna L. Grossman
In the year 2000, a lifetime ago in family law terms, the Supreme Court issued an important decision, Troxel v. [read post]