Express Observation (Title IX and 1983)
Recent Supreme Court ruling holds that Title IX doesn't preclude Section 1983 action in school gender discrimination COA Link
Express Observation (Law School Moral Relativism)
Law school lapses: 1st Harvard's Berkman-sellout, now Cornell Prof Colb defends religiously inspired child murder Link
Express Observation (Florida Reform School Justice)
FL gov't reform school survivors file lawsuit from savage sexual abuse & human rights violations in the 50s & 60s Link
Social Workers and the Fourth Amendment
It should come as no surprise that social workers and other child welfare workers are covered by the Fourth Amendment to the United States Constitution. What might be surprising is that the most conservative federal district courts are taking the lead in defining this new and rapidly evolving constitutional mandate, most notably the Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals (covering Wyoming, Utah, Colorado, New Mexico, Oklahoma and Kansas).
Applicable to the states through the Fourteenth Amendment's Due Process Clause, the Fourth Amendment provides: "The right of the people to be ...
Protections for Foster Children Enrolled in Clinical Trials
The following testimony was presented to the House Committee on Ways and Means Subcommittee on Human Resources on Wednesday, May 18, 2005 at a hearing on Protections for Foster Children Enrolled in Clinical Trials.
Alan Fleischman, M.D., Senior Advisor, The New York Academy of Medicine, New York, New York
Roberta Harris, Deputy Secretary, Wisconsin Department of Health and Family Services, Madison, Wisconsin
Marjorie Speers, Ph.D., Executive Director, Association for the Accreditation of Human Research Protection Programs, Inc.
Moira Szilagyi, M.D., Ph.D., Fellow of ...
Foster Care Meets the Third Reich
Over one year ago, the Alliance for Human Research Protection in New York City alerted the federal Food and Drug Administration that they had “reason to believe that federal regulations for the protection of children as research subjects have been seriously violated in federally funded HIV research.”
Kudos also to Liam Scheff who in December 2003 broke the story of the drug trials in an online article entitled “The House That AIDS Built”.
AHRP’s letter to the FDA states that “a series of Phase I and Phase II drug experiments were ...
States Clash Over Same-Sex Parental Rights
Four years ago, when courts in Vermont began recognizing the legality of same-sex civil unions, it was only a matter of time before cases came along to test whether sister states would give full faith and credit to those decisions.
The time has come.
One of the earliest cases to raise that issue is a same-sex parental rights challenge that has provoked a jurisdictional debate between Virginia and Vermont. According to an attorney for New York-based Lambda Legal Defense and Education Fund, it is also one of the earliest cases to test how state courts will respond to ...