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By Meg Leta Jones and Amanda Levendowski, co-editors of Feminist CyberlawAfter the Supreme Court decision in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, many feared that America was returning to a time before Roe v. Wade. They were wrong. As Feminist Cyberlaw contributor Cynthia Conti-Cook cau

By Grace Howard, author of The Pregnancy Police: Conceiving Crime, Arresting PersonhoodWhen I say that the Alabama Supreme Court ruled that fertilized eggs, embryos, and fetuses are legal persons, many people may assume I’m talking about the recent opinion that stated embryos created in the cour

COURT RULES HINDU NOT A 'WHITE PERSON'; Bars High Caste Native of India From Naturalization as an American Citizen.

By Samantha Barbas, author of Actual Malice: Civil Rights and Freedom of the Press in New York Times v. SullivanSarah Palin’s loss in her well-publicized libel suit against the New York Times in February 2022 could result in a decision affecting the most significant First Amendment ruling in his

By Jennifer L. Holland, author of Tiny You: A Western History of the Anti-Abortion MovementThe 2020 edition of American politics is showing once again the power of a politized conservative minority —for whom legal abortion trumps all other issues. For these conservatives, abortion is murder, and