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☆ How ‘History and Tradition’ Rulings Are Changing American Law
▼ + stars: | 2024-04-29 | by ( Emily Bazelon | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: 1 min

The student group, Spectrum WT, set a few guidelines. The show would be “PG-13,” the students told the university. Kids under the age of 18 — the students had in mind the siblings of a performer — could come only if they were accompanied by a parent or guardian. Despite this plan, the president of West Texas A&M, Walter Wendler, announced in March 2023 that he was barring the event from campus. In a statement on his personal website, Wendler called drag shows “derisive, divisive and demoralizing misogyny.” Spectrum WT sued, arguing that Wendler’s decision to cancel the show was a “textbook” example of discriminating against speech based on viewpoint.

Persons: —, Walter Wendler, Wendler Organizations: Kids, West Texas, WT

☆ Challenging Abortion, Again
▼ + stars: | 2024-03-25 | by ( Emily Bazelon | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

How safe is it to take abortion pills? The case could curtail Americans’ access to mifepristone, the first pill taken in a two-drug regimen for a medication abortion. A decision in the plaintiff’s favor would change the landscape of abortion not state by state, like the effects of the 2022 ruling that overturned Roe v. Wade, but across the country. Post-Roe AmericaThe abortion opponents who sued the government in tomorrow’s case, F.D.A. v. Alliance for Hippocratic Medicine, are frustrated by how common abortion has remained.

Persons: Roe, Wade, Margot Sanger, Katz, Claire Cain Miller Organizations: Alliance, Hippocratic Locations: United States

☆ Why ‘Fetal Personhood’ Is Roiling the Right
▼ + stars: | 2024-03-03 | by ( Emily Bazelon | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

The procedure offers a chance to make a baby, with eggs that are fertilized and develop into embryos in a lab. came to a sudden halt because of a State Supreme Court ruling that achieved a central goal of the anti-abortion movement. The ruling vaulted the question of “fetal personhood” to the center of the debate that has followed the U.S. Supreme Court’s 2022 decision overturning Roe v. Wade. The Alabama court decision made clear that this stance on the definition of life can broadly rewrite reproductive rights and send states, and perhaps the country, down unpredictable paths. In response, Alabama legislators, led by Republicans who have opposed abortion, rushed to pass bills last week so that I.V.F.

Persons: Roe, Wade Organizations: Court, Republicans Locations: Alabama, U.S .

☆ The Israeli-Palestinian Conflict and the Long Shadow of 1948
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-01 | by ( Emily Bazelon | A Discussion Moderated Emily Bazelon | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +18 min

In 1948, Jews realized their wildly improbable dream of a state, and Palestinians experienced the mass flight and expulsion called the Nakba, or catastrophe. It’s only in 1948 that the Arabs become Palestinians and the Jews become Israelis. Many Jews became lower-level officers during World War II, and they brought their new military expertise to the 1948 war. Zoltan Kluger/GPO, via Getty Images Palestinian bombers destroyed buildings on Ben Yehuda Street in Jerusalem in March 1948. Bettmann/Getty Images A Palestinian refugee cut off from her home by the border established after the 1948 war.

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☆ Why Anonymous Sperm Donation Is Over, and Why That Matters
▼ + stars: | 2023-12-03 | by ( Emily Bazelon | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +3 min

A 2010 survey, called “My Daddy’s Name Is Donor” and funded by the Institute for American Values, a conservative group, claimed that many donor-conceived children felt hurt and isolated by their origins. The study wasn’t peer reviewed, and other research has showed that donor-conceived children generally do as well as their peers. They say this creates the possibility of conflicts between how teenagers define their families and how their parents do. Lowering the age “leaves family more legally vulnerable,” says Courtney Joslin, a law professor at the University of California, Davis. “And it impacts both the social perception of the family and maybe how kids and parents see each other.”

Persons: ”, Douglas NeJaime, “, ” Malina Simard, Simard, Halm, Levy, ’ ” Simard, Courtney Joslin, Davis Organizations: Yale, Institute for American, University of California Locations: Halm

☆ Was Peace Ever Possible?
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-20 | by ( Moderated Emily Bazelon | A Discussion Moderated Emily Bazelon | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +45 min

This was known as the Oslo peace process, named for the city where the secret talks took place. Micha Bar-Am/Magnum Photos Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir of Israel during the the Middle East peace conference in Madrid, 1991. Margalit: All the Israeli leaders who negotiated for peace, starting with Rabin, were in a weak political position. Dajani: With the First Intifada, and then subsequently Madrid and Oslo, Palestinians suddenly see the possibility of agency. But what’s important to understand is that the notion of peace for Rabin, and for most Israelis, is that peace is a lack of violence from the other side.

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☆ The Surprising Places Where Abortion Rights Are on the Ballot, and Winning
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-12 | by ( Emily Bazelon | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +3 min

The Ohio advocates knew from focus-group testing that they would have to address the misgivings that many voters have about “abortion on demand,” as groups that oppose abortion put it. “There are some concerns even among pro-choice voters about abortion being used as birth control,” says Angela Kuefler, a partner at Global Strategy Group, which has run message testing for campaigns in several states. Mason, an affluent suburb north of Cincinnati, is in Warren County, which Donald Trump won with nearly two-thirds of the vote in 2020. On a weekend in June, Jeni Keeler, who is 46 and owns a small communications business, met up with volunteers from Mason outside a small clubhouse. The candidates she and her friends backed succeeded that November, creating a new majority to repeal the ordinance.

Persons: ”, Angela Kuefler, “, — “, Ashley All, ‘ I’m, ’ ” Kuefler, Donald Trump, Jeni Keeler, ” Keeler, Keeler Organizations: Global Strategy Group, Families United, Freedom, ” Volunteers, Republican, Council Locations: Ohio, Kansas, ” In Ohio, ”, Michigan, Mason, Cincinnati, Warren County

The same month, Elis for Rachael filed a class-action lawsuit accusing the university of discriminating against students with disabilities. Yale is not the only elite university to face legal challenges over its mental health policies. By offering part-time study as an accommodation, Yale has provided relief beyond what Stanford did, said Monica Porter Gilbert, an attorney at the Bazelon Center for Mental Health Law who represented plaintiffs in both cases. “It’s the students and the plaintiffs in this case making their voices heard and bringing Yale to the table to have difficult conversations,” she said. “As a nation, we talk about mental health differently now.”

Persons: ”, Pericles Lewis, Dean Lewis, Elis, Rachael, Brown, Monica Porter Gilbert, “ Organizations: Yale College, Yale, Washington Post, of Justice, Princeton, Stanford, Bazelon, Mental Health Law

☆ In Israel, High Stakes for High Court: Democracy’s Fate
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-30 | by ( Emily Bazelon | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

When the Israeli Supreme Court announced Wednesday that it would review a new law designed to curb its power, it set up a complicated choice for itself. Over the last few decades, attempts to weaken the courts around the world have become recurring signals that a democracy is in trouble. It’s more like a flashing red light, and how the judiciary responds can begin to decide how much damage is done. “What helps determine whether courts come back from the brink?” said Rosalind Dixon, a law professor at the University of New South Wales in Australia. “The mix of skills and strategic behavior of the court, and the degree of support it has from civil society and institutions and elites.”

Persons: Benjamin Netanyahu’s, ”, Rosalind Dixon Organizations: Supreme, University of New Locations: Russia, Turkey, Venezuela, University of New South Wales, Australia

☆ How Israel’s Supreme Court Might React to the Challenge to Its Power
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-25 | by ( Emily Bazelon | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

So the other theory is that the court should be cautious and follow the law to show the criticism is exaggerated. It was enacted as an amendment to one of Israel’s Basic Laws, which the justices have never previously struck down. Originally, Basic Laws, which can be passed by a simple parliamentary majority, were not necessarily superior to other laws. Then in 1992, the Knesset passed a Basic Law that guaranteed dignity and liberty. Supreme Court Justice Aharon Barak, one of the country’s most influential jurists, proclaimed a “constitutional revolution,” and the court established the supremacy of the Basic Laws and gave judges more sway to interpret them.

Persons: it’s, ”, Kim Lane Scheppele, Aharon Barak Organizations: Princeton University Locations: Israel

☆ New York Passes Bill to Shield Abortion Providers Sending Pills to States With Bans
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-20 | by ( Pam Belluck | Emily Bazelon | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

The New York State Legislature gave final approval on Tuesday to legislation that provides legal protection for New York doctors to prescribe and send abortion pills to patients in states that have outlawed abortion. The measure, along with similar new laws in several other states controlled by Democrats, could significantly expand medication abortion access by allowing more patients in states that restrict abortion to end pregnancies at home, without traveling to states where abortion is legal. The New York bill now goes to the desk of Gov. Since the Supreme Court ended the nationwide right to an abortion last year, legislation known as telemedicine abortion shield laws have been enacted in Massachusetts, Colorado, Vermont and Washington. Several providers in New York say they plan to send abortion pills to patients in all restrictive states, and a few providers are speaking publicly, which those in other states with shield laws have so far not done.

Persons: Kathy Hochul Organizations: New, Democrats, The New, Assembly Locations: New York, The New York, York, Massachusetts , Colorado , Vermont, Washington, But

☆ How a 150-Year-Old Law Against Lewdness Became a Key to the Abortion Fight
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-16 | by ( Emily Bazelon | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

The plaintiffs’ primary argument is that the courts should force the Food and Drug Administration to revoke its approval of mifepristone, the first pill in the two-drug regimen for medication abortion. At the same time, another potentially consequential part of the suit challenges an F.D.A. decision in 2021 allowing patients to receive the prescribed pills by mail. The plaintiffs in the Texas suit argue that the Comstock Act “explicitly forbids” mailing the drugs to any state, whether abortion is legal there or not. In defense of the agency’s actions, which were based on studies showing that the medication could be safely dispensed without an in-person medical visit, the Biden administration argues that Congress made the agency responsible for assessing a drug’s safety and effectiveness, not whether other laws might affect its use.

☆ Husband Sued Over His Ex-Wife’s Abortion; Now Her Friends Are Suing Him
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-04 | by ( Emily Bazelon | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

For Ms. Noyola and Ms. Carpenter, the experience of being sued has been difficult, said their lawyer, Rusty Hardin. Mr. Mitchell did not respond to requests for comment. Mr. Mitchell’s argument in this case uses the state’s wrongful death statute to seek damages on behalf of Mr. Silva. The suit asserts that under that state law, the rights of a fetus are equivalent to those of an adult. If Mr. Mitchell’s argument succeeds, it would be a legal victory for the concept of fetal personhood — a goal of many abortion opponents.

☆ How Much Power Should the Courts Have?
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-14 | by ( Emily Bazelon | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +4 min

Many of the new constitutions gave the high courts clear authority to safeguard the rights of minorities and the democratic system. Some of the courts vigorously wielded this power to set aside majoritarian decisions that appeared to undermine democracy over the longer run. “If courts abdicate their responsibility to protect democracy, they’re not doing their job,” says Dixon, a law professor at the University of South Wales in Australia. In the 1980s, as Israel’s Jewish population became more religious and traditional, secular Israeli law professors drafted provisions for a constitution, consulting with their American peers and Aharon Barak, an Israeli Supreme Court justice. “Over the last 20 years, the Israeli Supreme Court, while issuing valuable rulings on the rights of women, L.G.B.T.Q.

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