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Legislative Process
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Labor Law Prof Blog
Senate to Take Up Ledbetter Pay Discrimination Bill
ACSBlog gives us the heads up that tomorrow, the:Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee [will hold] hearings to examine S.1843, which amends title VIIof the Civil Rights Act of…
Labor Law Prof Blog
The House Passes ENDA
On Wednesday, the House passed the Employment Nondiscrimination Act (ENDA) by a 235-184 margin. As we've posted earlier, the president has threaten to veto an earlier version of this bill,…
ImmigrationProf Blog
Controversy Over Private Bills and Republican Backlash
Carolyn Lochhead reports in the San Francisco Chronicle:Rep. Zoe Lofgren, a San Jose Democrat, succeeded in soothing matters in her Judiciary Committee panel on immigration, reaching a truce with Republicans…
Traumatic Brain Injury Law Blog
Senate Adds Dignified Treatment of Wounded Warriors Act to Dignified Treatment of Wounded Warriors Act
In a unanimous vote yesterday, the senate added the Dignified Treatment of Wounded Warriors Act to the National Defense Authorization Act for the Fiscal Year 2008. The new legislation will…
ImmigrationProf Blog
MAPA Statement on Crash of Senate Bill
NO HUMAN BEING IS ILLEGAL – Workers Will Inherit the EarthA Bittersweet Victory with the Defeat of S.1639 – Kennedy-Kyl BillThe U.S. Senate lacked the appropriate political leadership to approve…
ImmigrationProf Blog
McCain to Opponents: Where’s Your Plan?
Henry Jackson of the Associated Press, discusses John McCain's reaction to the Senate debate this week:Republican presidential hopeful John McCain said Saturday that time is running out on overhauling immigration…
Reproductive Rights Prof Blog
Wisconsin Senate passes bill requiring emergency contraception at hospitals
Scott Bauer of the Associated Press reports:Hospitals would be required to provide the so-called morning after pill to rape victims under a measure that passed the state Senate on Wednesday…
Reproductive Rights Prof Blog
NY Times: Bush Warns of Vetoes Over Abortion Issue
Via yesterday's New York Times:President Bush told Congressional leaders Thursday that he would veto any legislation that weakened federal policies or laws on abortion.In a two-page letter sent to the…
Sentencing Law and Policy
Cunninghamfix litigation and other California problems
Main March 29, 2007Cunningham fix litigation and other California problemsAs detailed in this AP story, SB 40, the California bill that essentially seeks to Booker-ize California's sentencing structure in response…
Reproductive Rights Prof Blog
Federal Court Nominee Wrote Failed Wyo. Abortion Ban
From the Casper Star-Tribune:Rock Springs lawyer Richard Honaker, whose nomination for a U.S. District Court judgeship in Wyoming was announced Monday, was the author in 1991 of a bill in…