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Family Law Prof Blog
Elections to Watch
By Family Law
"Voters in South Dakota will be deciding whether to uphold or annul a law that would ban virtually all abortions. Ballot measures in Oregon and California could require parental notification…
Family Law Prof Blog
Nicaragua Criminalizes All Abortions
By Family Law
Editorial from N.Y. Times: "The rights and safety of Nicaragua’s women took a giant step backward last week when the country’s legislature passed a law criminalizing all abortions, with no…
Wills, Trusts & Estates Prof Blog
Defining Life from the Perspective of Death
Kirsten Rabe Smolensky (Associate Professor of Law – University of Arizona College of Law) has recently published the abstract of her article entitled Defining Life from the Perspective of Death:…
Supreme Court Update
Order List 9/28/2006
By Kim Rinehart
Greetings, Court Fans, and welcome back for another Term of the Supreme Court Update! As hard as it is to believe, fall is upon us, and the Court is set…
Family Law Prof Blog
House Passes Legislation on Interstate Abortion Notification
By Family Law
Yesterday the House of Representatives passed the Child Custody Protection Act (S. 403) by a margin of 264-153. Last year the House passed a version of this bill called the…
Sentencing Law and Policy
SCOTUS preview season in high gear
Main September 16, 2006SCOTUS preview season in high gearEverywhere you surf, there are clear signs that the SCOTUS preview season is now in high gear. Marcia Coyle has this effective…
Family Law Prof Blog
Case Law Development: 10th Circuit Court Rejects Challenge to Oklahoma Parental Notification Statute
By Family Law
In an action by medical providers to enjoin the state attorney general and others from enforcing an Oklahoma statute requiring parental notification before a minor could receive an abortion, the…
Family Law Prof Blog
Chinese Lawyers Attempting to Aid Anti-Abortion Activist Roughed Up and Harassed
By Family Law
It is reported that Chinese lawyers attempting to help a detained anti-abortion activist were roughed up and harassed when they travelled to the coastal provice of Shandong to visit him.…
Family Law Prof Blog
English Doctors May Call for Early-Stage Abortion to Require only One Medical Opinion
By Family Law
This week English Doctors will most likely vote on two motions being made at the Medical Association’s annual representative meeting that would make it simpler for women in early stages…
Family Law Prof Blog
Supreme Court Agrees to Hear Second Abortion Case
By Family Law
On Monday the Supreme Court agreed to hear a government appeal that seeks to reinstate a federal ban on what opponents call partial-birth abortion in the case of Gonzales v.…