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Abortion's Stigma Affects Doctors' Willingness to Provide
Wash. Post: Abortion Stigma Affects Doctors' Training And Choices, by Sandra G. Boodman: When Devin Miller, leader of the abortion rights group Medical Students for Choice at Virginia Commonwealth University, heard about the slaying of George Tiller, a Kansas physician...

India: Supreme Court to Review Abortion Law
The Hindu News Update Service: Supreme Court to examine law on abortion: The 38-year-old abortion law was on Friday challenged in the Supreme Court which sought a response from the government for continuing with a provision prohibiting termination of pregnancy...

Abortion and the Supreme Court: One Depressing Possibility
I got an e-mail from RH Reality Check today plugging a series of posts about abortion, framed with the title: “The Supreme Court Hangs In The Balance.” I’d like to offer the competing opinion that the Supreme Court has already been lost...

DAN ABRAMS: The Medias Shameful, Inexcusable Distortion Of The Supreme Courts Citizens United
DAN ABRAMS: The Media?s Shameful, Inexcusable Distortion Of The Supreme Court?s Citizens United Decision. “You may disagree with the opinion, you may think that expanding the ability of corporations to fund campaign messaging is a true danger, or just, as I do, that outside money is a major concern for our democratic system...

Kansas Supreme Court quashes subpoenas seeking abortion records
Courthouse News Service: "Kansas health employees are not required to hand over abortion records to former state Attorney General Phill Kline or testify about the contents of those reports, the Kansas Supreme Court ruled...

#ihadanabortion
In the same vein as the "I had an abortion" t-shirts, the latest trend is the #ihadanabortion hashtag on twitter. Both are designed to remove any stigma from the decision to have an abortion...

Selection of State Supreme Court Judges
How State Court Judges are Selected

California Supreme Court Proposition 8 Decision
Court Rejects Challenges to Proposition 8, but Finds Marriages Valid

Is Barack Obama a Natural Born Citizen?
Wrotnowski v. Bysiewicz (Supreme Court): Does Obama meet the constitutional requirements to be President

Unwed Fathers' Rights in Adoption
Landmark Cases in Adoption Law Shape Law with respect to Unwed Fathers

Law Enforcement and Criminal Justice Career Choices
Descriptions of law enforcement occupations

Heart of Atlanta v United States
Supreme Court Decision: Civil Rights Act Protected by Interstate Commerce Clause

Ebay Fined
French Court Sets Fine at $61 Million

Personal Injury
Appeals Court Upholds Congressional Legislation

Tomato Salmonella
Sheetz Convenience Stores agrees to confidential out-of-court settlement with food poisoning victim.

National Association of Realtors
Settlement reached in broker listing antitrust lawsuit, pending court approval.

Missouri Attorney General's Office
$26,000 settlement reached in disability discrimination lawsuit, pending court approval.

Rutland School District
Double pay offered as part of class action wage dispute settlement, pending court approval.