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The Faculty Lounge
So much for states’ rights: Republicans target out-of-state abortions
My new column at The Hill explains the parallels between the recent SCOTUS opinion overruling Roe v. Wade and the infamous Dred Scott decision of 1857. Here is the gist:…
Beneficially Yours
Federal Government Response to Dobbs Begins to Take Shape
By Diane Dygert, Kelly Pointer
As we have been covering, the Supreme Court has overturned Roe v. Wade in their Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, leaving it to states to regulate access to abortion…
Labor Law Prof Blog
Call for Papers: The Effect of Dobbs on Work Law
Nicole Porter, who just joined Chicago-Kent and is the new director of the Martin H. Malin Institute for Law and the Workplace, writes about a really interesting symposium call for…
The Right Coast
Why Bosses Love #Girlboss | Compact Mag
No group has done more in our time to encourage abortion and discourage family formation than the managers of US capitalism. Far from advancing in the hands of Marxists, the…
Gender and the Law Prof Blog
Feminist Scholar Presentations This Week at Law & Society Annual Meeting
By Tracy Thomas
Law & Society Annual Meeting 2022 (Lisbon & virtual) Feminist Legal Theory Collaborative Research Network LSA ConferenceJuly 13-16, 2022, in Lisbon, PortugalPlease note: All times listed are in Lisbon time (GMT…
Workplace Privacy, Data Management & Security Report
Dobbs and Privacy: President Biden’s Executive Order and OCR HIPAA Guidance
By Joseph J. Lazzarotti, Jason C. Gavejian
In response to the United States Supreme Court decision in Dobbs vs. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, President Joe Biden signed an Executive Order on Friday, July 8, 2022, designed to…
The Right Coast
Look How Opinion Shifts On Abortion When Polls Reject Leftist Framing
A new abortion poll from the American Association of Pro-Life Obstetricians and Gynecologists (AAPLOG) out Wednesday illuminates how media and abortion activists are able to skew public opinion by keeping…
Religion Clause
Mississippi Trial Court Says State’s High Court Would No Langer Find Abortion Right In State Constitution
In Jackson Women's Health Organization v. Dobbs, (MS Ch., July 5, 2022), an abortion provider on behalf of itself and its patients sought a preliminary injunction to prohibit enforcement of…
Benefits Law Update
Agencies Heed President’s Call to Take Action to Protect Access to Sexual and Reproductive Health Care Post-Dobbs
Within days of the Supreme Court’s June 24th Dobbs decision, which held that the Constitution does not guarantee the right to an abortion, key government agencies have taken action to…
Tax Controversy Report
The Supreme Court’s Dobbs Ruling Creates a Variety of Significant Legal Issues
The Supreme Court of the United States held in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, that the Constitution does not confer a right to abortion, overruling long-standing precedent in Roe v. Wade and Planned…