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Bush’s Big Irony . . .
As posted here on Feminist Law Profs, Mary Cheney and her partner Heather Poe welcomed their new son Samuel David into the world on May 23. The White House promptly issued a photo of Grandparents Vice-President Dick and Lynne Cheney … Continue reading
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Linda Christine Fentiman, “The New”Fetal Protection”: The Wrong Answer to the Crisis of Inadequate Health Care for Women and Children”
Here is the abstract: This article examines recent”fetal protection”efforts, which demonize, disenfranchise, and punish pregnant women. These actions erase the bright line of birth which has historically distinguished children from fetuses, and include criminal prosecutions of pregnant women, civil commitments … Continue reading
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Protecting Gay, Lesbian and Gender Variant Teens
In my new book, Dude, You’re a Fag: Masculinity and Sexuality in High School, I document the rampant homophobic teasing that permeates high school students’ daily lives. California is one of the few states to take a proactive … Continue reading
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Male Attorney More Effective As Female Online
Over at Madisonian Theory, Fred Yen notes: Today’s law.com has a interesting story about law firms conducting investigations to enforce clients’ IP rights on the Internet. It describes how a Covington and Burling lawyer impersonated a”flirtatious 27 year old female … Continue reading
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Where’s (Either) Mommy?
On Wednesday, May 23, 2007, Mary Cheney and her partner of 15 years, Heather Poe, welcomed their son, Samuel David Cheney, into their lives. Ms. Cheney and Ms. Poe are notably absent from an official White House photo (above) … Continue reading
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Let’s Talk About Salaries
As previously blogged about here, the Supreme Court’s terrible decision last week in the pay discrimination case should lead to major reform regarding publicly disclosing salary information. Susan Reed has taken up the cause in an editorial in the … Continue reading
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DeAnza Update
Here’s an SFgate column about the rescuers, and here is an SFgate column about the DA’s refusal to prosecute.
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Women’s Equality Amendment “Still Not Likely”
A headline in this week’s ABA Journal eReport labels the Women’s Equality Amendment, previously blogged here, as “Still Not Likely.” In the article, Nate Persily at the University of Pennsylvania Law School says,”Most of the guarantees people thought an ERA … Continue reading
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Complicated International Child Custody Case
I don’t know anything at all about the specifics or merits of this case, but Heart at Women’s Space/The Margins has been blogging about it and doing other sorts of activism as well. Read her post and see if you … Continue reading
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“A Topeka man convicted of repeatedly raping and sodomizing a 14-year-old girl was sentenced to three years probation, rather than nearly 13 years in jail.”
I don’t have anything useful to add. Read more at the Sentencing Law and Policy Blog.
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Thank You Ruth Bader Ginsburg
From a NYT account of Ledbetter v. Goodyear Tire & Rubber: Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg read part of her dissent aloud (itself an unmistakable sign of anger), and the tone of her opinion showed how bitterly she differed with the … Continue reading
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Janet Conney v. The Regents of the University of California, et al.
The AAUW’s summary is here, below is an excerpt: … In 1998, Conney received a geriatric psychiatry fellowship position at UCLA where she researched, published, and was mentored by senior colleagues. The department director offered her a promotion to assistant … Continue reading
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Supreme Court Rules Against Pay-Equity Case
Today’s 5-4 decision ruling against a woman bringing a pay equity case is available here. The split on the Court was entirely predictable, with Alito writing for the 5 in the majority (with Roberts, Scalia, Kennedy, Thomas) and Ginsburg … Continue reading
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“The Sexual Harassment of Uppity Women”
The Journal of Applied Psychology recently published an article by this title written by Jennifer Berdahl of the University of Toronto, in which she describes the results of her recent sexual harassment study. She concludes that gender harassment is primarily … Continue reading
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How the New York Board of Correction Fails Women and Men
In a May 17, 2007 letter to the editor of the New York Law Journal, important New York prison reform leaders criticized NYC’s Board of Correction for abdicating its responsiblity of independent oversight of city jails. Without public comment, … Continue reading
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Courage.
Read this, and then this.
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MALALAI JOYA OUSTED BY AFGHAN PARLIAMENT
Heart has an account at Women’s Space/The Margins. More information from Sonali Kolhatkar at WIMN’s Voices. Here is an excerpt from Kolhatkar’s piece: … In February 2006, my non-profit organization, Afghan Women’s Mission, sponsored a US tour for her. Malalai … Continue reading
“…[T]he national average sentence for men who kill their female partners is two to six years in prison. Criminal justice systems and juries do not, on average, treat the murder of women by their husbands terribly seriously. In contrast, women who kill their male partners are sentenced to an average of 15 years, three times as much as male defendants, despite the fact that many of these women killed in self-defense.”
That’s a short excert from an essay by law prof Tania Tetlow that is available in full text here. Via the Dees Diversion.
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Raw Deal?
The documentary “Raw Deal: A Question of Consent” is reportedly about an alleged rape of a stripper at a University of Florida fraternity house in 1999. From this website: Raw Deal is one of the most exposing and controversial documentaries … Continue reading
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“Debt Collector v. Widow”
Read this important post by John Pottow at Credit Slips: I wanted to draw Credit Slips readers’ attention to a wonderful (front-page) feature a couple weekends ago (Sat. Apr. 28) by Ellen E. Schultz in the Wall Street Journal … Continue reading
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De-Sexing the Disabled Is Wrong
Today the Washington Protection & Advocacy Program released its report on the removal of the breast buds and uterus of a disabled six-year old girl at the request of her parents. Failure to get advance court approval for these … Continue reading
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Womenstake.org, the New Blog of the National Women’s Law Center
Check out Womenstake.org here! The NWLC homepage is here. You can read more about its history of outstanding legal accomplishments here.
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Garance Franke-Ruta, “Age of Innocence Revisited”
From the WSJ.com: Joe Francis, founder of the “Girls Gone Wild” video company, may be 34 years old, but these days he is barely legal. The controversial impresario has built a $100 million soft-core porn empire based on filming college … Continue reading
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“Many female lawyers dropping off path to partnership”
From The Boston Globe: … Female lawyers continue to face intractable challenges in their attempts to become partners, causing them to abandon law firm careers — and the legal profession entirely — at a dramatically higher rate than men, according … Continue reading
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Blogging as Third-Wave Feminist Legal Method
From hermanifesta, a new arrival in feminist cyberspace: [B]logging can be interpreted as a feminist legal method, as an added method to Katharine Bartlett’s exploration of feminist legal methods (asking the”woman question,”feminist practical reasoning, consciousness-raising). * * * [F]eminist blogging … Continue reading
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Jody Raphael, “Freeing Tammy: Women, Drugs, and Incarceration”
Jody Raphael, Senior Research Fellow, DePaul College of Law, has recently published the third book in her women, poverty, and violence trilogy, a feminist work (a ten-year project) that uses women’s own voices to show how violence makes and keeps … Continue reading
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That NYT Magazine Feature About Pornography
It’s a long article, very pornography triumphant, full of jokey puns. Below are a few quotes pulled from the piece, with a bit of commentary. From the very first paragraph introducing “trim” and “boyish” pornographer Peter Acworth: He had already … Continue reading
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“Unrecognized Injustice : The Situation of Rape”
The Situationist has an excellent post up about Amnesty International’s study about the sexual violence against Native American women in the U.S. The report itself is here.
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“In Apparel, All Tariffs Aren’t Created Equal”
Today’s NYT has a story about disparities in tariffs based on whether an article of clothing is intended for men, or for women. Here is an excerpt: Congress, it turns out, plays fashion favorites. Take bathing suits. It slaps a … Continue reading
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North Dakota legislature approves abortion ban to take immediate effect if Roe v. Wade reversed
From Jurist: The North Dakota Legislative Assembly [official website] passed a bill [PDF text] Monday prohibiting abortion [JURIST news archive] in the state if the US Supreme Court [official website] ever declares that such a move would be constitutional. The … Continue reading
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Stupefying: “Man not guilty in ‘dungeon’ rapes”
Here is the entire article from Yahoo News: DARLINGTON, S.C. – A jury has found a convicted sex offender accused of raping two teen girls in an underground bunker not guilty of kidnapping, sex crimes and assault with intent to … Continue reading
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“Abortion rights gain ground in Latin America”
Christian Science Mionitor article here. Via the Reproductive Rights Prof blog.
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Harry Reid is a Huge Hypocrite
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid was one of 64 U.S. Senators who voted for the Partial Birth Abortion Ban Act of 2003. Here is the entire list of Senators and their votes: YEAs —64 Alexander (R-TN) Allard (R-CO) Allen (R-VA) … Continue reading
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Gov. John Lynch said Thursday he will sign legislation establishing civil unions for gay couples in New Hampshire.
A little good news! Live Free Or…Get Partnered! NYT story here.
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Gonzales v. Carhart
This morning the Supreme Court upheld the Partial-Birth Abortion Ban Act of 2003 in a 5/4 ruling with the majority opinion written by Justice Kennedy, a concurrence by Justice Thomas and a dissent by Justice Ginsburg. The statute prohibits a … Continue reading
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Ann Bartow, “Trademarks of Privilege: Naming Rights and the Physical Public Domain”
This paper critiques the branding and labeling of the physical public domain with the names of corporations, commercial products, and individuals. It suggests that under-recognized public policy conflicts exist between the naming policies and practices of political subdivisions, trademark law, … Continue reading
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U.S. Supreme Court Upholds Partial Birth Abortion Ban Act
NYT story here. The decision was 5-4, and this is a situation in which the replacement of O’Connor with Alito probably made all the difference. Accord to the NYT: ”Today’s decision is alarming,” Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg wrote in dissent. … Continue reading
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Woman Wrongly Convicted in WI is Released
At least there is a little good news today: Georgia Thompson, apparent victim of a Republican political scheme, has been freed. From the NYT: Opponents of Gov. Jim Doyle of Wisconsin spent $4 million on ads last year trying to … Continue reading
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U.S. lags in family benefits
From the Philadelphia Inquirer: True or False: The United States is one of only four countries in the world that does not provide some form of paid leave to new mothers? Believe it or not, the answer is true, with … Continue reading
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ClassCrits: Constructing the Story of Class in Law, May 21-22, 2007 University at Buffalo Law School
From the associated webpage: This continues the goal of the first workshop, in January 2007, which was to begin to build a network of scholars interested in conceptualizing and interrogating the relationship between law, class and economic inequality. While much … Continue reading
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April Cherry, “The Detention, Confinement, and Incarceration of Pregnant Women for the Benefit of Fetal Health”
The abstract: This article examines both the state’s role in the detention, confinement, and incarceration of pregnant women for the purported benefit of fetal health, the constitutionality of these actions, and the rights the state endangers when it does act. … Continue reading
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Sexual Harassment and Title IX
Yahoo Sports reports: Nine years after it was filed, a sexual harassment lawsuit against the University of North Carolina women’s soccer coach has regained momentum as a former player challenges how harassment and the culture of college athletics could violate … Continue reading
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Derrida Papers Sexual Harassment Controversy Update
Available here. Related posts here and here. To recap briefly: Then faculty member Dragan Kujundzic was sanctioned by the University of California, Irvine, in 2004 as a consequence of allegations that he sexually harassed a graduate student. Shortly before his … Continue reading
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“The Rules of the Game”
Over at The Conglomerate, Feminist Law Prof Christine Hurt has an interesting post up called “The Rules of the Game,” which she wrote to describe advice offered at a symposium, by women for women, about how to succeed at law … Continue reading
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That Career-Killing Culture of Life
A record 4,901 pregnancy discrimination complaints were filed with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) in 2006. Medical News Today reports: The Baltimore Sun on Wednesday examined pregnancy discrimination in the workplace, which some federal officials say is not uncommon. … Continue reading
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“Wal-Mart changes corporate birth control policy: EC will be dispensed without discrimination or delay”
Per Planned Parenthood’s blog “Save Roe!”: Wal-Mart has signed onto Planned Parenthood’s pharmacy policy on emergency contraception (EC), also known as the “morning-after pill.” This means that Wal-Mart will provide EC in-store, without delay. Over the past few years, Wal-Mart … Continue reading
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G. Kristian Miccio, “What’s Truth Got To Do With It? A Deontological Critique and Response to Tom Lininger’s Article ‘Reconceptualizing Confrontation After Davis.'”
Below is the introduction: Let me begin by saying that I enjoyed Professor Lininger’s article and found the recommendations aspirational and noteworthy. Let me also say that while I use the term”deontological”in my title, this Essay has nothing to do … Continue reading
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Sex Trafficking in Pakistan and in South Carolina
NYT columnist Nicholas Kristof writes today (behind the Times Select firewall) about sex slavery in Pakistan, observing that “…neo-slavery is the plight of millions of girls and young women (and smaller numbers of boys) around the world, particularly in Asia. … Continue reading
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Abortion Rights in Mexico
This International Herald Tribune article reports: Dominated by liberals, Mexico City’s legislature is expected to legalize abortion in a few weeks. The bill would make this city one of the largest entities in Latin America to break with a long … Continue reading
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Ms. JD Conference
I spent last Saturday at the Yale Law School attending Legally Female, the first conference sponsored by Ms. JD. It was a terrific experience in many ways, as one would expect from a gathering of feminist law students. I’ll write … Continue reading
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