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Equal Protection
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Civil Rights Law & Policy Blog
“Original Meaning and Marriage Equality”
The title of this post comes from this recent paper by Professor William Eskridge, the abstract of which states: In the 2014 Term, the Supreme Court is hearing challenges to…
Constitutional Law Prof Blog
Supreme Court Hears Same-Sex Marriage Arguments in Obergefell v. Hodges
The Court today heard oral arguments in two parts in the consolidated cases of Obergefell v. Hodges on certiorari from the Sixth Circuit opinion which had created a split in the…
Employment Discrimination Report
The Supreme Court Argument Date for Gay Marriage Cases is Around the Corner
For those people who may have been living under a rock or enjoying an extended Tom Hanks-like vacation on a desert island a la Cast Away, the Supreme Court is…
Gender and the Law Prof Blog
The Law of (Un)equal Protection and Fatherhood Bonuses
By Tracy Thomas
Keith Cunningham-Parmeter (Willamette), (Un)equal Protection: Why Gender Equality Depends on Discrimination, 109 Northwestern Law Review 1 (2015).From the abstract: Most accounts of the Supreme Court’s equal protection jurisprudence describe the Court’s firm…
Labor Law Prof Blog
Cunningham-Parmeter on Gender Equality
Friend-of-blog Keith Cunningham-Parmeter (Willamette) has just posted on SSRN his superb piece, (Un)Equal Protection: Why Gender Equality Depends on Discrimination, which appears in the Northwestern University Law Review. From the…
Gender and the Law Prof Blog
Bidding Preferences for Women-Owned Companies
By Tracy Thomas
Riggins v. Polk County, 2015 WL 1037245 (11th Cir. Mar. 11, 2015)David Riggins challenged, on equal protection grounds, a Polk County ordinance that grants women-owned and minority-owned business enterprises bidding for…
Legislation Law Prof Blog
Transgender Litigant Challenges ADA’s Exclusion of “Gender Identity Disorder”
By Kevin Barry
Thanks to the ADA Amendments Act of 2008, the ADA now protects far more people with disabilities than it once did. However, the Amendments did nothing to change the ADA’s…
Education Law Prof Blog
New Jersey State Court Finds That Pledge of Allegiance Statute Does Not Violate the State Constitution
A New Jersey Superior Court found this month that a state statute requiring schoolchildren to recite the pledge of allegiance (and its "under God" phrase) did not violate the state…
Civil Procedure & Federal Courts Blog
Ruling in Alabama Marriage Litigation: Judge Granade Grants Injunction Against Mobile Probate Judge
Following today's hearing, federal judge Callie Granade issued a preliminary injunction against Mobile County Probate Judge Don Davis. Here's the operative text:It is ORDERED and DECLARED that ALA. CONST. ART.…
Constitutional Law Prof Blog
Federal Judge Orders Alabama Probate Judges to Issue Same-Sex Marriage Licenses
Professor Ruthann Robson, City University of New York (CUNY) School of LawFederal District Judge Callie V. S. Granade has issued her 8 page Order in Strawser v. Strange regarding the…