Topic
Equal Protection
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The Right Coast
Liberal Judges: Equality Violates Equal Protection Clause; Taxpayers to Pay More Due to Ruling
Last week, a divided Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals struck down the Michigan Civil Rights Initiative, which amended Michigan s constitution in 2006 to ban racial discrimination and preferences in government…
Family Law Prof Blog
Bachiochi: “Embodied Equality: Debunking Equal Protection Arguments for Abortion Rights”
By Family Law
Erika Bachiochi has posted "Embodied Equality: Debunking Equal Protection Arguments for Abortion Rights" (34 Harv. J. Law & Pub. Policy (2011)) on SSRN. Here is the abstract:Within legal academic circles…
Constitutional Law Prof Blog
Sixth Circuit Declares Michigan Proposition 2 Restricting Affirmative Action Unconstitutional
By ConLawProf initials at end of post
In Coalition to Defend Affirmative Action v. Regents of the Univ. of Michigan, the Sixth Circuit issued its divided panel opinion today holding that Michigan's Proposition 2, now Michigan Const.art. I,…
The Faculty Lounge
Obama Administration Appeals Bankruptcy Ruling Finding DOMA Unconstitutional
Two weeks ago, the Bankruptcy Court for the Central District of California ruled that the Defense of Marriage Act was unconstitutional. The case involved two men who were legally married…
Texas Bankruptcy Blog
Bankruptcy Court Declares Defense of Marriage Act Unconstitutional
By Bryan Fears
Recently the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Central District of California, the nation's largest bankruptcy court, ruled that the federal Defense of Marriage Act violates the equal-protection clause of the…
Sentencing Law and Policy
Any broader insights or lessons from the latest Lindsay Lohan sentencing developments?
Main April 23, 2011Any broader insights or lessons from the latest Lindsay Lohan sentencing developments?This ABC News story, headlined "Lindsay Lohan Released From Jail, Appealing Ruling," provides the latest developments…
Constitutional Law Prof Blog
Footnote of the Day: Co-Ed Sports and VMI
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Should there be co-ed football? Must there be?Justice Scalia, dissenting in United States v. Virginia (VMI), 515 U.S. 515 (1996), objected to the Court's "sweeping" rejection of single-sex programs and…
Constitutional Law Prof Blog
Footnote of the Day: The Experience and History of Inequality
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On the anniversary of the 1968 assassination of Martin Luther King, footnote 24 of Justice Thurgood Marshall’s concurring and dissenting opinion in Cleburne v. Cleburne Living Center, Inc., 473 U.S.…
Labor Law Prof Blog
Recently Published Scholarship
Eang L. Ngov, When "The Evil Day" Comes, Will Title VII's disparate Impact Provision be Narrowly Tailored to Survive an Equal Protection Clause Challenge?, 60 Am. U. L. Rev. 535…
New Jersey Family Law
SPRINGFIELD MORRISTOWN WEST ORANGE FORT LEE NEW JERSEY DIVORCE MATRIMONIAL MEDIATION ATTORNEY
The New Jersey Parentage Act's disparate treatment of a husband and an infertile wife when the husband has a child via in vitro fertilization of a gestational carrier does not…