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Historic progress for women on the bench
var _gaq = _gaq || []; _gaq.push(['_setAccount', 'UA-2327420-4']); _gaq.push(['_trackPageview']); (function() { var ga = document.createElement('script'); ga.type = 'text/javascript'; ga.async = true; ga.src = ('https:' == document.location.protocol ? 'https://ssl' : 'http://www') + '.google-analytics.com/ga.js'; var s = document.getElementsByTagName('script')[0]; s.parentNode.insertBefore(ga, s); })(); Stephanie Rose confirmed to Southern District of Iowa, marking historic progress for women...
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Wal-Mart: too big to sue?
Chris tells her story in Unequal Justice
When Chris Kwapnoski worked at Sam’s Club, a Wal-Mart affiliate, managers told her that she needed to “doll up” and “blow the cobwebs off” her makeup if she wanted to get ahead. At the same time, a male associate was given a larger raise because he had “a family to support,” even though at the time Chris was a single mother raising two young children.
And when Chris and more than a million other women joined together to hold Wal-Mart accountable for the discriminatory pay and promotion practices of its management, the Supreme Court told them that Wal-Mart...
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Immunity for generic drug manufacturers
Gabriel tells his story
When Gabriel Drapos was a first-year student at Harvard, he was diagnosed with an autoimmune disease that would ultimately take countless drug therapies, several invasive spinal column procedures, and three surgeries to manage.
He later found out that his disease was likely connected to a drug he had taken:
Personal pain becomes a social injustice in the presence of unconscionable ethics. I discovered there was likely a connection between my disease and a drug I had taken in high school. Allegedly, I should say. I’ll never get my day in court to prove it.
Gabriel...
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pliva v. mensing
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Will the Roberts Court overturn Roe v. Wade?: Part III
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Will the Roberts Court overturn Roe v. Wade?: Part II
var _gaq = _gaq || []; _gaq.push(['_setAccount', 'UA-2327420-4']); _gaq.push(['_trackPageview']); (function() { var ga = document.createElement('script'); ga.type = 'text/javascript'; ga.async = true; ga.src = ('https:' == document.location.protocol ? 'https://ssl' : 'http://www') + '.google-analytics.com/ga.js'; var s = document.getElementsByTagName('script')[0]; s.parentNode.insertBefore(ga, s); })(); Part II of our three-part series on the status of reproductive health issues in the lower...
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Will the Roberts Court overturn Roe v. Wade?: Part I
var _gaq = _gaq || []; _gaq.push(['_setAccount', 'UA-2327420-4']); _gaq.push(['_trackPageview']); (function() { var ga = document.createElement('script'); ga.type = 'text/javascript'; ga.async = true; ga.src = ('https:' == document.location.protocol ? 'https://ssl' : 'http://www') + '.google-analytics.com/ga.js'; var s = document.getElementsByTagName('script')[0]; s.parentNode.insertBefore(ga, s); })(); With the airwaves dominated by talk about “legitimate rape” and “forcible rape” (as opposed...
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Workplace injustice at Walmart
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Democracy Matters: A Conversation on Voter Suppression and Citizens United
Today, AFJ's Isaiah Castilla will moderate a conversation around voter suppression and Citizens United, the landmark Supreme Court case that granted corporations the same first amendment rights as citizens, with Diana Sen (Associate Counsel, LatinoJustice PRLDEF) and Mimi Marziani (Counsel in Democracy Program of the Brennan Center), as a part of the "Democracy Matters" week at Culture Project's IMPACT Festival in New York City. Comedian and author, Lee Camp, will open the conversation with a stand-up solo performance.Click here for more information and ticket...
We’re Ready for our Close-up: AFJ Has a Cameo on “The Newsroom”
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Swimming upstream: the execution of Marvin Wilson
Guest post by Professor Lee KovarskyMarvin Wilson in 2006. Photo: Texas Department Of Criminal Justice / APThis past Tuesday, Texas executed my client of 6.5 years, Marvin Wilson. Marvin had mental retardation (“MR”). When I talked to Marvin three hours before Texas administered a lethal dose of pentobarbital, I tried to keep the conversation light. Inmates facing execution get a last meal; I asked Marvin what he was going to eat. He said, “Mr. Lee” (Marvin has never been able to pronounce or spell my last name), “I got me some good food but I told ‘em not to make it too nice ‘cause the...
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