With regard to the role of the court in ensuring civil rights, Thelton Henderson, moderator of the forum, noted that for many years the judicial system has been viewed as a friend of the movement. Godbold said the 1991 act will change the civil rights forum from the courts to the ...
As such, the American medical community has called for legal protections for those whose gender identity does not fit squarely into the categories of man or woman, such as transgender and gender-nonconforming people. And several courts have granted them those protections through prohibitions against...
Courts applying a federal common law of successor liability argued that their approach would achieve greater national uniformity and avoid the danger of state laws that supposedly unduly limited the liability of successor corporations.Additionally, while some courts adopting a federal common law standard ...
_ suggest to some that the illfined line between a constitutional lande regulation and an unconstitutional "taking" may be shifting in owners' favor."I think the courts have come to place a great value on property rights under the Constitution," said Norman Marcus, former general counsel of ...