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Equal Protection
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Supreme Court Upholds Tennessee Law Prohibiting Gender-Affirming Care for Children
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Quick Hits The Supreme Court held that “Tennessee’s law prohibiting certain medical treatments for transgender minors is not subject to heightened scrutiny under the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth…
PrawfsBlawg
Skrmetti
Main Wednesday, June 18, 2025SkrmettiYeah, I missed badly on this one, sorry to say. 6-3, by the Chief, following the usual political lines and arguments. Justice Kagan's short dissent argues…
Gender and the Law Prof Blog
Lawsuit Challenging Constitutionality of Pregnancy Exclusion in Kansas End-of-Life Decision-Making
By Jamie Abrams
Several organizations have filed a lawsuit challenging Kansas's law that prohibits pregnant people from making end-of-life decisions. The lawsuit, filed by Compassion & Choices, If/When/How, and Irigonegaray & Revenaugh, was…
Legal Theory Blog
Eyer on United States v. Skrmetti
Katie R. Eyer (Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey - Rutgers Law School) has posted Transgender Equality: An Inflection Point for Equal Protection? (University of Cincinnati Law Review, Vol.…
Gender and the Law Prof Blog
Tradition and Feminism in Constitutional Rights Adjudication
By Tracy Thomas
Highly recommend.Rachel Bayefsky, Tradition and Feminism in Constitutional Rights Adjudication In recent years, "tradition" has been influentially invoked in constitutional rights adjudication and legal scholarship. The Supreme Court, in contexts ranging…
Legal Theory Blog
Brake on Equal Citizenship
Deborah L. Brake (University of Pittsburgh - School of Law) has posted Constitutional Rights and Retrenchment: The Elusive Promise of Equal Citizenship on SSRN. Here is the abstract: Although equality…
Gender and the Law Prof Blog
The Elusive Promise of Equal Citizenship
By Tracy Thomas
Deborah L. Brake, Constitutional Rights and Retrenchment: The Elusive Promise of Equal Citizenship Although equality received no mention in the original Constitution—which brokered an unholy compromise to accommodate and preserve the…
Regulatory Oversight
Federal Court Pumps the Brakes on Iowa Vape Directory
By Agustin Rodriguez, Nick Ramos
We previously wrote about this case last January, here and here, when Iowans for Alternatives to Smoking & Tobacco, Inc., Global Source Distribution, LLC, and others filed a complaint and motion…
Family Law Prof Blog
Smith: “The Adult Rights-Bearing Archetype and How it Stifles Young People’s Equal Protection”
By Family Law
Catherine E. Smith (Washington & Lee University School of Law) has recently posted to SSRN her paper, The Adult Rights-Bearing Archetype and How it Stifles Young People's Equal Protection. Here…
Gender and the Law Prof Blog
Neoshia R. Roemer on “Equity for American Indian Families”
By Jamie Abrams
Neoshia R. Roemer has published Equity for American Indian Families in volume 109 of the Minnesota Law Review (2025). The abstract is excerpted here: For the better part of two centuries,…