Rape Victims

Morning Docket

Morning Docket: 07.15.22

* Ohio's GA wants to hit the doctor that helped a 10-year-old rape victim get an abortion if they didn't do all the proper paperwork. Kafkaesque doesn't even start to explain that. [Politico] * Live in Missouri and thinking about getting a divorce? Sure hope you aren't pregnant. [Riverfront Times] * Remember the whole preemption argument for allowing abortions in health threatening scenarios? Yeah, Texas would rather you or your sister just die. [Axios] * Indiana wants SCOTUS to really make sure Roe is a no go. And quickly. [CNN] * Want the real deal on Intersectionality and CRT instead of whatever nonsense fearmongers are selling? You should register for the 3rd annual Critical Race Theory Summer School! Expect big names and thorough analysis. [AAPF]

By Chris Williams
Non-Sequiturs

Non-Sequiturs: 12.19.16

* North Carolina's governor-elect announced legislators will meet tomorrow to repeal their terrible bathroom law. [LawNewz] * The first trailer for the legal television show The Good Fight, the CBS streaming spinoff of The Good Wife, is here, and piles on the sex. [Slate] * Ohio elector resigns from the electoral college in order to keep her day job. [Election Law Blog] * Women receive lower grades in large law school classes. [TaxProf Blog] * A difficult, but important read: a letter from a woman to the man that raped her. [Huffington Post] * Huma Abedin gets to be the scapegoat for some looking for a patsy for Hillary Clinton's loss. [Law and More] * Nearly a thousand lawyers, policy experts, and activists are expected to attend a "counter-inaugural" conference in D.C. on Jan 21-22, 2017, featuring speakers like Sam Munger (SiX), Tom Goldstein (co-founder of SCOTUSblog), Nan Aron (Alliance for Justice), Jonathan Lowy (Brady Center to Prevent Gun Violence) and Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-MD). The conference will begin after the (free) Women's March on Washington on Saturday morning. Learn more and register here. [Rise Above]

By Kathryn Rubino
Non-Sequiturs

Non-Sequiturs: 12.16.15

* In a moving long-form piece, the Marshall Project details how the criminal justice system failed a rape victim. [The Marshall Project] * "As a debater, a product of Jesuit schooling, a scholar of religion, and a legal scholar, I was taught that words matter. Rational discourse matters. Setting an example matters." NYU President John Sexton makes a powerful statement on the rise of Islamaphobia. [NYU] * Eric Schniederman is in the news for a reason unrelated to fantasy football -- he's banning the sale of realistic toy guns this Christmas. [Press Connects] * David Lat pontificates on this year's bonuses. [Big Law Business / Bloomberg BNA] * That judge who held 3 kids in contempt for refusing to visit their father now faces disciplinary action. [Jezebel] * In economic terms, what do painkillers really cost? [Law and More]

By Kathryn Rubino