by Chris Havasy | Sep 28, 2013 | Amicus, Courts & Judicial Interpretation, Events, Sex Equality
On Thursday, September 26th, Harvard Law School held a review of the previous term of the Supreme Court. The panelists included Professors Charles Fried, Tomiko Brown-Nagin, Michael Klarman, Visiting Professor Justin Driver, and the event was moderated by Dean Martha...
by David Hanyok | Sep 25, 2013 | Amicus, Freedom of Expression, Human Rights, Labor and Employment, Reproductive Rights, Sex Equality
Over the past few months, circuit courts have started weighing in on the Affordable Care Act’s requirement that employers’ health plans include contraception at no cost to employees, and it’s clearly heading for the Supreme Court. So far, the 3rd...
by Nitzan Weizmann | Sep 4, 2012 | Amicus, Reproductive Rights, Sex Equality
In a recent television interview, Rep. Todd Akin, a member of the House Committee on Science, the Republican candidate for Senate from Missouri, said that rape does not result in pregnancy because “if it’s a legitimate rape the female body has ways to try to shut that...
by Noah Kaplan | Aug 9, 2012 | Amicus, Courts & Judicial Interpretation, Freedom of Expression, Labor and Employment, Reproductive Rights, Sex Equality
Hercules Industries, a Denver company that provides heating and air conditioning equipment recently won a preliminary injunction against the imposition of the preventive care requirement adopted pursuant to the Affordable Care Act. Predictably, conservatives lauded...
by Philip Petrov | Apr 7, 2012 | Amicus, Education & Youth, Sex Equality
Rolling Stone recently published a long story about Andrew Lohse, a Dartmouth senior who blew the whistle—assuming there was a whistle to blow—about hazing practices at his school’s social fraternities. In January of this year, Lohse published an op-ed in The...
by Lisa | Jan 29, 2012 | Amicus, Courts & Judicial Interpretation, Criminal Justice, Human Rights, LGBTQ Rights, Poverty and Economic Justice, Reproductive Rights, Sex Equality
In the upcoming weeks, the legislators of my home state of North Carolina will be faced with a dilemma: how does a government compensate victims of a historical atrocity that was deemed legal at the time? At the national level, this question is often asked in the...