It’s Never Too Early for Gender Stereotyping
It’s Never Too Early for Gender Stereotyping Via Alternet – 4-Year-Old Boy Suspended From School for Months Because His Hair Is ‘Too Long’. This is a public school holding a four-year old boy to a...
View ArticleKilling an Abortion Doctor Might Be Voluntary Manslaughter, Not Murder
Killing an Abortion Doctor Might Be Voluntary Manslaughter, Not Murder That is, according to the Kansas judge presiding over the trial of Dr. George Tiller’s murder. Apparently, murdering someone in...
View ArticleAttacking Bias in Law Reviews: Jonathan Gingerich on Blind Review
Attacking Bias in Law Reviews: Jonathan Gingerich on Blind Review With all the attention here on the paucity of female authors in the top law reviews, here’s an interesting paper from Jonathan...
View ArticleWill the Prop 8 Case Be Moot Before It Gets to the Supreme Court?
Will the Prop 8 Case Be Moot Before It Gets to the Supreme Court? Following last week’s decision finding that California’s Prop 8 was unconstitutional, much of the talk centered around what the Supreme...
View ArticleA Banner Year for Gay Rights Litigation
A Banner Year for Gay Rights Litigation Although not necessarily the issues that most impact the day-to-day lives of LGBT people in this country, marriage and military service have been at the...
View ArticleMTV Airing Abortion Special Tonight
MTV Airing Abortion Special Tonight I’ve lamented here in the past pop culture’s lack of attention to the issue of abortion. And MTV has been a big culprit, with not one but two shows about teen...
View ArticleToday’s Prop 8 Decision – Increasing the Chances of Mootness Before the...
Today’s Prop 8 Decision – Increasing the Chances of Mootness Before the Supreme Court Gets the Case Back in August, I wrote that the Prop 8 case might never get decided by the Supreme Court. The...
View ArticleObama Administration Appeals Bankruptcy Ruling Finding DOMA Unconstitutional
Obama Administration Appeals Bankruptcy Ruling Finding DOMA Unconstitutional Two weeks ago, the Bankruptcy Court for the Central District of California ruled that the Defense of Marriage Act was...
View ArticleWhere Are the Liberal Justices on Gay Rights?
Where Are the Liberal Justices on Gay Rights? Cross-posted on The Faculty Lounge In re-reading the marriage cases this afternoon, something struck me: where are the liberals? There are six opinions in...
View ArticleWindsor Same-Sex Marriage Aftermath: Everyone Just Sue the Bastards
Windsor Same-Sex Marriage Aftermath: Everyone Just Sue the Bastards Cross-posted at The Faculty Lounge. In 2004, after Massachusetts became the first state in the country to allow same-sex marriage,...
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