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House Republicans Add Insult To Native Women’S Injury, Ryan Devreskracht
House Republicans Add Insult To Native Women’S Injury, Ryan Devreskracht
University of Miami Race & Social Justice Law Review
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Gender And Securities Law In The Supreme Court, Lyman P.Q. Johnson, Michelle Harner, Jason A. Cantone
Gender And Securities Law In The Supreme Court, Lyman P.Q. Johnson, Michelle Harner, Jason A. Cantone
Lyman P. Q. Johnson
The 2010 appointment of Elena Kagan to the United States Supreme Court meant that, for the first time, three female justices would serve together on that court. Less clear is whether Justice Kagan’s gender will really matter in how she votes as a justice. This question is an especially visible aspect of a larger issue: do female judges display gendered voting patterns in the cases that come before them? This article makes a novel contribution to the growing literature on female voting patterns. We investigated whether female justices on the United States Supreme Court voted differently than, or otherwise influenced, …
Religious Freedom And Women's Health - Litigation On Contraception, Timothy Stoltzfus Jost
Religious Freedom And Women's Health - Litigation On Contraception, Timothy Stoltzfus Jost
Scholarly Articles
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Equality Arguments For Abortion Rights, Neil S. Siegel, Reva B. Siegel
Equality Arguments For Abortion Rights, Neil S. Siegel, Reva B. Siegel
Faculty Scholarship
Roe v. Wade grounds constitutional protections for women’s decision whether to end a pregnancy in the Due Process Clauses. But in the four decades since Roe, the U.S. Supreme Court has come to recognize the abortion right as an equality right as well as a liberty right. In this Essay, we describe some distinctive features of equality arguments for abortion rights. We then show how, over time, the Court and individual Justices have begun to employ equality arguments in analyzing the constitutionality of abortion restrictions. These arguments first appear inside of substantive due process case law, and then as claims …
Supreme Court Strikes Down Doma’S Key Provision, Ducks On Prop 8, Arthur S. Leonard
Supreme Court Strikes Down Doma’S Key Provision, Ducks On Prop 8, Arthur S. Leonard
Other Publications
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