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Sentencing Law and Policy
New Prison Policy Initiative briefing explores impact of <em>Dobbs</em> on women under community supervision
I often say to students (and sometimes highlight here) that every big legal story has some kind of sentencing echoes. This new Prison Policy Initiative briefing makes that point with respect…
Gender and the Law Prof Blog
Unintended Consequences of Fetal Personhood Statutes in Tax, Trusts, and Estates
By Tracy Thomas
Bridget J. Crawford, Alexis Borders & Katherine Keating, Unintended Consequences of Fetal Personhood Statutes: Examples from Tax, Trusts, and Estates, Georgetown J. Gender & the Law (forthcoming) The laws of taxation,…
Gender and the Law Prof Blog
Robin R. Runge on “Safe Leave from Work Post-Dobbs”
By Jamie Abrams
Robin R. Runge published Safe Leave from Work Post-Dobbs in Volume 28 of the Employee Rights and Employment Policy Journal. The abstract is excerpted here: Given the increasing restrictions on how…
Religion Clause
Missouri Abortion Bans Do Not Violate State Constitution’s Establishment Clauses
In Blackmon v. State of Missouri, (MO Cir. Ct., June 1, 2024), a Missouri trial court held that Missouri's various statutory provisions banning abortion do not violate the Establishment Clauses of…
Constitutional Law Prof Blog
SCOTUS Says Docs, Orgs Lack Standing to Challenge Mifepristone
The Supreme Court ruled today in FDA v. Alliance for Hippocratic Medicine that doctors and organizations lack standing to challenge FDA's relaxation of regulations on the use of Mifeprex, the…
PrawfsBlawg
Paring back strange standing doctrines
Main Thursday, June 13, 2024Paring back strange standing doctrinesSCOTUS decided FDA v. Alliance for Hippocratic Medicine Thursday, holding 9-0 (per Justice Kavanaugh) that a collection of anti-choice doctrines lack standing…
Gender and the Law Prof Blog
SCOTUS Unanimously Upholds FDA Rule on Abortion Pill on Grounds of Standing
By Tracy Thomas
In an unanimous opinion by Justice Kavanaugh, the U.S. Supreme Court overruled the lower court's invalidation of the FDA's current rules on the permissibility of the abortion pill, mifepristone. The…
Religion Clause
Catholic Bishops Sue EEOC Over Rules Implementing Pregnant Workers Fairness Act
Suit was filed last month in a Louisiana federal district court by the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, Catholic University of America and two Louisiana Catholic dioceses challenging rules adopted in…
Gender and the Law Prof Blog
Elizabeth Tobin-Tyler on “Abortion Rights and the Child Welfare System: How Dobbs Exacerbates Existing Racial Inequities and Further Traumatizes Black Families”
By Jamie Abrams
Elizabeth Tobin-Tyler published Abortion Rights and the Child Welfare System: How Dobbs Exacerbates Existing Racial Inequities and Further Traumatizes Black Families in Volume 51 of the Journal of Law, Medicine &…
Gender and the Law Prof Blog
Abrams & Potts on “The Rhetoric of Abortion in Amicus Briefs”
By Jamie Abrams
I have published The Rhetoric of Abortion in Amicus Briefs with the University of Missouri Law Review. The work is in Volume 89 at page 399. Here is the abstract: The amicus briefs…