Law Humor

Garda on Seperate But Equal
Robert A. Garda Jr. (Loyola New Orleans) has posted Coming Full Circle: The Journey from Separate but Equal to Separate and Unequal Schools (Duke Journal of Constitutional Law & Public Policy, Vol...

On the Anniversary of Equal Pay Act
Exactly 45 years ago today, President John F. Kennedy signed the Equal Pay Act, recognizing that the right to equal pay for equal work is a fundamental value...

Connecticut Supreme Court Decision Granting Same-Sex Marriage
The Connecticut Supreme Court has issued a decision (PDF here) holding that a separate-but-equal civil union scheme is a violation of the Connecticut state constitution's equal protection rights...

It's good to read the Old Texts every once in a while...
When in the Course of human events it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which...

Women Deserve Equal Pay For Equal Work
Today is Equal Pay Day, the day which marks how far into the year a woman must work, on average, to earn as much as a man earned the previous year...

Equal Liberty and Religious Exemptions: A Response to Eisgruber and Sager
This piece examines Sager's and Eisgruber's theory -- known as "Equal Liberty" or "Equal Regard" -- and reflects on both its triumphs and its defects...

What role does financial means determine which parent gains custody?
was(am) a single male that gained custody of my daughter when she was three. Thi...

Divorce in the Philippines between a national and a foreigner?
first of all,eventhough divorce is not legal in the Phil,the fact that you are m...

I live on 10 acres in a "residental" area of homes. Even though we are not zoned commercial my next door neighbor obtained a variance from the county and is running a business. The traffic is right next to my
The time to protest was when the variance was being deliberated by the County. Y...

I feel everyone should be treated equal in this world, but in a lot of cases that doesn't happen. I live in a white community with only 2 to 3 African American families. I belong to one of them. A week after getting into
I would call the courthouse and ask for the judges assistant, and ask them why t...