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Appeals Court Ruling on Transgender Rights: What It Means

The Crime Report

In a case involving a former inmate who accused a Virginia prison of discrimination, a federal appeals court has held that the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) covers individuals with “gender dysphoria.”. The ruling expanded the legal consensus on the discrimination protections available to some transgender people.

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“Supreme Court Allows Challenge to Texas Abortion Law but Leaves It in Effect; The law, which bans most abortions after about six weeks of pregnancy, was drafted to evade review in federal court and has been in effect since September”

HowAppealing

“Supreme Court Allows Challenge to Texas Abortion Law but Leaves It in Effect; The law, which bans most abortions after about six weeks of pregnancy, was drafted to evade review in federal court and has been in effect since September”: Adam Liptak of The New York Times has this report. ” David G.

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LawProse Lesson 388: A Prewriting Checklist for Effective Legal Writing.?

Law Prose

or rule-establishing (contracts, regulations, statutes, etc.). Identify all applicable specifications (court rules, client requirements, etc.). Collect all the relevant data you can, remembering to try Google Books in addition to your usual legal-research methods. Draft an outline. Take notes systematically.

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Post-Roe States Advised to Fight Abortion like Organized Crime

The Crime Report

A legal team for the National Right to Life Committee , which describes itself as the largest anti-abortion group in the country, has drafted model anti-abortion legislation for states to adopt, in addition to criminalizing abortion, the Independent reports. Pro-life demonstrators in Knoxville, Tenn., Photo via Wikipedia.

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Dobbs’s history and the future of abortion and privacy law

SCOTUSBlog

Dobbs reiterates the long-established principle that unwritten rights, to be enforced by courts, must be deeply rooted in our history. Applying that test, Dobbs holds: (a) From the 1200s to 1960, no statute, no English case, no state case, no federal case, no legal treatise, and no law-review article hinted at an abortion right.

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The Supremes Give the FTC “Nothing but Heartaches”: Court Unanimously Rules No Restitution in Injunction Cases, and How Will This Ruling Impact FDA?

FDA Law Blog

The Court pointed out that its task was not to determine whether the ability of the FTC to substitute §13(b) for the administrative procedure in §5 and consumer redress under §19 was desirable, but rather to answer a “more purely legal question,” Slip Op. It did that by focusing on the text of the statute.

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Final Update: Repository HCCH 2019 Judgments Convention

Conflict of Laws

Our sincere thanks go to all involved, not only at the conference and in the book project, but also to the legal scholars from around the world who have kept us constantly informed about publications of their own work on the HCCH 2019 Judgments Convention. 11 of August 2000 (available here ), pp 19-128 II. “A 8 (2021), pp. 819 et seq.