Forty years ago, pregnant mother “Jane Roe” brought her landmark suit on behalf of all women “similarly situated” challenging a Texas statute that made abortions criminal except when medically advised to save the life of the mother. Charging that the statute violated her First, Fourth, Fifth, Ninth, and Fourteenth Amendment rights to personal liberty, due process, and privacy, the case made its way up to the U.S. Supreme Court, culminating in one of the country’s most well-known court decisions, Roe v. Wade…
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Civil Rights
When Charles Ramsey kicked his foot into neighbor Ariel Castro’s home, he probably did not realize the media storm that awaited. He was simply doing what any humane person would do when faced with a literal cry for help. Fast-forward through countless local and national interviews, and we are smack dab in the middle of another conversation on race.…
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Is Racism at Play in the Charles Ramsey Media Blitz? Ask Your Family
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Roe v. Wade is 40 – What’s Changed?
Rooting for Royce White: Mental Illness and Professional Sport
Royce White ends up developing into one heck of a basketball player. He’s so good in fact that the Houston Rockets select him with the 16th pick in the 2012 NBA Draft. They’re aware he’s got his share of issues, the least of which is his fear of running. There’s anxiety for starters. He doesn’t like to travel by plane. We’ll work it out though, they tell him…
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2012: Legislating the Rights of Women
Most political history texts will remember 2012 for the Presidential election, the triumph (or survival?) of Obamacare, and Congress’s down to the wire (totally theatrical?) performance in averting the country’s economic fiscal cliff. But 2012 was also a big year for legislating the rights of women: access to health care, and the ability to claim autonomy over their bodies…
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For Female American Lawyers, Are Government Mandates the Answer?
With the passage of a new law by the European Union requiring more women in corporate management, questions surrounding women, business, and the role of government are at the forefront of many discussions. The new law requires that 40 percent of non-executive directors at all publicly traded European companies are women by 2020…
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