Academic

Abrams on Abortion Stigma in Supreme Court Opinions
Paula L. Abrams (Lewis & Clark Law School) has posted The Scarlet Letter: The Supreme Court and the Language of Abortion Stigma (Michigan Journal of Gender & Law, Forthcoming) on SSRN...

Abrams on the Oregon Initiative Process
Paula L. Abrams (Lewis & Clark Law School) has posted The Majority Will: A Case Study of Misinformation, Manipulation, and the Oregon Initiative Process (Oregon Law Review, Forthcoming) on SSRN...

B.F. Skinner on Schedules of Reinforcement
This one-minute video discusses schedules of reinforcement in B.F. Skinner’s experiments. Reinforcement is delivered to different animals on a schedule that states the contingencies on which reinforcement depends...

Abrams on the history of the Oregon initiative process
The Majority Will: A Case Study of Misinformation, Manipulation, and the Oregon Initiative Process is a new article by Paula L. Abrams, Lewis & Clark Law School. It is forthcoming in the Oregon Law Review...

Abrams on the Reasonable Observer Standard in Establishment Clause Cases
Paula L. Abrams (Lewis & Clark Law School) has posted The Reasonable Believer: Faith, Formalism, and Endorsement of Religion on SSRN. Here is the abstract: The reasonable observer standard, used in Establishment Clause cases to determine whether government action endorses...

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...

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.