Parental Rights
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Family Law, Health Care / Medicine, Kids
Government Tells Gay Couple To (Fraudulently) Divorce If They Want To Keep Legal Rights To Their Son
This is like an awful exam hypothetical -- except a real couple's parental rights are at stake. -
Family Law, Health Care / Medicine, Kids
Single Parents, Beware Of The Ex
This is a terrifying case for single parents. - Sponsored
Why Do AI And Legal Professionals Make The Perfect Partnership?
For many legal departments, generative AI is the technology they’ve been waiting for. -
Family Law, Gay, Health Care / Medicine, Kids
Anti-Obergefell Forces Pass 'Natural' Meaning Law
While gay marriage has been settled by SCOTUS, some states continue to fight the result.
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Family Law, Health Care / Medicine, Kids
What Happens When A Country Won’t Let You Take Your Baby Home?
Changing local laws can disrupt a pregnancy already underway leaving babies trapped in foreign countries. -
Family Law, Health Care / Medicine, Kids
International Surrogacy Update 2017: Not Good, But It Could Always Be Worse
Just remember that numerous other countries are also struggling with similar issues -
Family Law, Health Care / Medicine, Kids
Tennessee Artificial Insemination Statute At Risk; Lawmakers Play Coy With Motivation
Proposed legislation in Tennessee would only serve to do harm to LGBTQ couples. -
Morning Docket
Morning Docket: 10.05.16
* Who recently made partner at Kirkland & Ellis, Covington & Burling, Goodwin Procter, and Curtis Mallet-Prevost? Here’s a nice round-up that highlights the names of the 112 associates who were promoted at these four firms. Don’t be too shocked by that high number; the vast majority of partner promotions were made at Kirkland, where 81 attorneys were welcomed into the ranks of the firm’s non-equity partnership. [Big Law Business]
* In what’s hailed as a victory for gay rights, Massachusetts expanded the legal definition of the word “parent” to be read “in a gender-neutral manner, to apply where a child is ‘born to [two people], is received into their joint home, and is held out by both as their own child.'” The state’s high court also allowed parentage laws to be construed to apply to members of same-sex couples without biological ties to the children. [WSJ Law Blog]
* Today, SCOTUS will hear arguments in a case challenging “judge-made law,” that is, what is and isn’t considered insider trading. If you trade on information received from a third party who received it from an insider, is that insider trading? Even Mark Cuban wants to know, writing in an amicus brief that “no one should be prosecuted for conduct that Congress is either unwilling or unable to define.” [DealBook / New York Times]
* The Oklahoma Supreme Court struck down a law that forced abortion providers to save fetal tissue samples from patients younger than 14 years old, on top of other broad restrictions. The court unanimously ruled that the law violated the state constitution’s “one subject” rule. In a separate concurrence, four judges would’ve struck down the law as an unconstitutional burden on a woman’s right to have an abortion. [Reuters]
* Much like America, the Supreme Court seems to have a problem with race this Term. The high court will be hearing three divisive cases having to do with racial slurs, racial rhetoric, and racial epithets, and the Court may very well be divided along ideological lines, resulting in 4-4 deadlocks thanks to the seat left vacant by the late Justice Antonin Scalia and the Senate’s refusal to give Judge Merrick Garland a hearing. [CNN]