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HodgesOncaleOregonPennsylvaniaPortugalPrice WaterhouseProp 8 marriageReligious Freedom Restoration ActRick SantorumScaliaSecond AmendmentSection 5Seventh CircuitSwedenTed CruzTen CommandmentsU.S. ConstitutionUnited NationsVermontVirginiaWilliams InstituteYogyakarta Principlesadoptionaffirmative actionage discriminationamendmentbankruptcyboycottscampaign finance regulationcivil unionsconstitutional privacy rightseducationexecutive ordersflag burningfoster caregun controlimmigrationimpeachmentintersexintimate associationjudicial nominationsjury strikeslibertyprecedentpreemptionproducts liabilitypublic accommodationspublic forumracereproductive rightsrestroomsright to dieright to sexsex assigned at birthsodomysovereign immunitystatutory rapestrip searchwhite supremacyCruz LinesA legal blog offering excursions into the Constitution, equality law, sex, gender identity, and sexual orientation.http://cruz-lines.blogspot.com/noreply@blogger.com (Prof. David B. Cruz)Blogger125125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3634039847604575056.post-2026541817197951135Fri, 01 Sep 2023 15:15:00 +00002023-09-01T08:15:06.431-07:00bathroomsFloridagender identityrestroomssex assigned at birthtransgenderFlorida’s Draconian Bathroom Penalties & Faux “Intimacy”Everybody's searching for intimacy Ooh ooh ooh ooh Everybody's hurting for intimacy Ooh ooh ooh oohThe New York Times reported (Florida Approves Tough Discipline for College Staff Who Break Bathroom Law) that on Wednesday, August 23, 2023 the Florida Board of Education adopted new rules requiring the firing of employees at the state’s 28 regional college campuses who twice use (“http://cruz-lines.blogspot.com/2023/09/floridas-draconian-bathroom-penalties.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Prof. David B. Cruz)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3634039847604575056.post-5653728747859876982Fri, 30 Jun 2023 15:27:00 +00002023-06-30T08:57:24.260-07:00affirmative actionequal protectionequalityracestare decisisU.S. Supreme Courtwhite supremacyMasking White Supremacy“They reached for tomorrow / But tomorrow’s more of the same”In its decision in Students for Fair Admissions, Inc. v. President and Fellows of Harvard College (SFFA), the Republican-appointed supermajority of the Supreme Court held that the use of race in the undergraduate admissions programs of Harvard College and the University of North Carolina was unlawful under Title VI of the http://cruz-lines.blogspot.com/2023/06/CruzLinesMasking.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Prof. David B. Cruz)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3634039847604575056.post-9220554187106405651Thu, 08 Oct 2020 20:10:00 +00002020-10-08T13:10:38.107-07:00abortion rightsprecedentstare decisisU.S. Supreme Court Don’t Worry About Roe, Conservative Prof Misleadingly Argues“Let yourself go,/ Relax,/ And let yourself go.Relax,/ You’ve got yourself tied up in a knot.” I had originally reacted with incredulity about a recent effort to paint Amy Coney Barrett’s nomination to the Supreme Court as largely irrelevant to the fate of Roe v. Wade and constitutional protection for reproductive rights. I drafted a blog entry with the title and epigram above. Buthttp://cruz-lines.blogspot.com/2020/10/dont-worry-about-roe-conservative-prof.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Prof. David B. Cruz)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3634039847604575056.post-4613124944715941313Fri, 10 Jul 2020 22:08:00 +00002020-07-10T15:08:52.309-07:00Damn the Consequences, Gorsuch Says “So let the chips fall where they mayAnd let these matters be settled this wayWe'll let our judgement get carried away” Yesterday, the Supreme Court ruled, as described by Chief Justice Roberts in his dissent, that “a huge swathe of Oklahoma is actually a Creek Indian reservation, on which the State may not prosecute serious crimes committed by Indians.” Three and a half weeks earlier, the http://cruz-lines.blogspot.com/2020/07/damn-consequences-gorsuch-says.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Prof. David B. Cruz)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3634039847604575056.post-959908088381000874Mon, 15 Jun 2020 15:41:00 +00002020-06-15T08:59:56.702-07:00Civil Rights Act of 1964employment discriminationequal protectionTitle VIIU.S. Supreme CourtTitle VII Means What It Says, Supreme Court Rules, Cheering LGBT Workers “But you got dreams He’ll never take away” In Bostock v. Clayton County, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled today that firing employees because they are “homosexual or transgender” violates the ban on sex discrimination in Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, the major federal employment discrimination statute. This is a position LGBT people have taken since shortly after the statute http://cruz-lines.blogspot.com/2020/06/title-vii-means-what-it-says-supreme.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Prof. David B. Cruz)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3634039847604575056.post-3098620354267350168Fri, 08 Jun 2018 03:35:00 +00002018-06-08T09:30:11.976-07:00First AmendmentFree Exercise Clausefreedom of speechLGBTQ rightsmarriageMasterpiece Cakeshoppublic accommodationssexual orientation discriminationRespectfully, You Lose: Masterpiece Cakeshop gets cited in state court “Oh baby refrain from breaking my heart”      In what appears to be the first judicial opinion to cite the Supreme Court’s ruling in Masterpiece Cakeshop v. Colorado Civil Rights Commission, an Arizona appeals court has rejected a claim by a hand-painted and hand-lettered stationery business and its Christian owners for a religious exemption from Phoenix’s law forbiddinghttp://cruz-lines.blogspot.com/2018/06/respectfully-you-lose-masterpiece.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Prof. David B. Cruz)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3634039847604575056.post-999702979036445862Tue, 05 Jun 2018 21:02:00 +00002018-06-05T14:02:07.280-07:00equal protectionFirst AmendmentFree Exercise Clausefree speechLGBTQ rightsMasterpiece Cakeshopsexual orientation discriminationU.S. Supreme Court Is It the End of the Line for Charlie Craig & David Mullins’s suit against Jack Phillips?  Masterpiece Cakeshop as Bush v. Gore “Why leave me standing here? Let me know the way” A number of commentators have already noted a similarity between the Supreme Court’s decision yesterday in Masterpiece Cakeshop and its decision in 2000 in Bush v. Gore.&nbsphttp://cruz-lines.blogspot.com/2018/06/is-it-end-of-line-for-charlie-craig.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Prof. David B. Cruz)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3634039847604575056.post-7370113241240082431Fri, 30 Jun 2017 18:17:00 +00002017-06-30T11:17:55.587-07:00Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA)equal protectionGorsuchmarriagemarriage equalityObergefell v. Hodgesparental rightsTexasU.S. v. WindsorEqual Is Equal* (*some exceptions may apply): Marriage Equality in Texas and Pidgeon v. Turner “Found alternative sides to the things that were said” Acting in Pidgeon v. Turner (HT @JoeDunman for the opinion copy), the Supreme Court of Texas (SCOTX) has gratuitously protracted the efforts of the city of Houston to treat its lesbian, gay, and bisexual employees constitutionally and hence equally. The court unanimously reversed a lower appeals court’s order allowing http://cruz-lines.blogspot.com/2017/06/equal-is-equal-some-exceptions-may.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Prof. David B. Cruz)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3634039847604575056.post-4086032842876137327Wed, 05 Apr 2017 01:06:00 +00002017-05-15T18:34:58.237-07:00BaldwinCivil Rights Act of 1964HivelyJudge PosnerJudge WoodsLambda LegalLGBTI rightsOncalePrice WaterhouseSeventh Circuitsex discriminationsexual orientation discriminationTitle VIIFull Appeals Court Rules Federal Law Forbids Sexual Orientation Discrimination in Employment You’re applying for a job/So you’re filling out a form And for all intents and purposes/You fit into the norm Until it says to list your next of kin/But there's no box to fit you in In a landmark decision, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit has held that the federal statute barring sex discrimination in employment forbids sexual orientation discrimination.  The 8-3 http://cruz-lines.blogspot.com/2017/04/full-appeals-court-rules-federal-law.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Prof. David B. Cruz)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3634039847604575056.post-1148679094338066322Fri, 10 Feb 2017 19:31:00 +00002017-02-10T11:31:40.654-08:00due processDue Process Clauseequal protectionEstablishment Clauseexecutive ordersFifth AmendmentFirst AmendmentimmigrationinjunctionsmootnessTexasTrumpAppeals Court Sustains Temporary Restraint on Trump Immigration EO “You got your tricks Good for you But there’s no gambit I don’t see through” Yesterday the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit unanimously held that the federal trial judge in Seattle who granted a nationwide temporary restraining order (TRO) suspending Trump’s immigration ban executive order (EO) did not exceed his discretion.  The Court of Appeals therefore rejected Donald http://cruz-lines.blogspot.com/2017/02/appeals-court-sustains-temporary.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Prof. David B. Cruz)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3634039847604575056.post-783218487827728436Sun, 20 Nov 2016 19:17:00 +00002016-11-20T11:32:59.911-08:00abortion rightsflag burningintimate associationlibertyparental rightsright to dieScaliaSanitizing Scalia “Memories to be erased And nasty old stuff you’ve been hiding” The Harvard Law Review recently published its issue dedicated in memoriam to the late Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia.  I know the point of such exercises is to say nice things about the person memorialized.  But I would hope that even an academic such as Martha Minow, Dean of the Harvard Law School, whose positionhttp://cruz-lines.blogspot.com/2016/11/sanitizing-scalia.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Prof. David B. Cruz)1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3634039847604575056.post-4507150191832357474Wed, 09 Nov 2016 17:13:00 +00002016-11-09T11:06:00.756-08:00First Amendment Defense Act (FADA)Fourteenth Amendmentgender identityLGBTI rightsmarriage equalitymarriage recognitionObergefellsexual orientation discriminationTrumpTrump and the Promise of LGBTQ Equality I’ve always got my head in the clouds Hope that I could find One of them that’s silver-lined As I write, it appears that Donald J. Trump will take office as the forty-fifth President of the United States.  Some (many?) people, myself included, deeply feared this and are anxious or worse about the prospect.  So, in an effort to help myself confront this new reality, I offer this http://cruz-lines.blogspot.com/2016/11/trump-and-promise-of-lgbtq-equality.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Prof. David B. Cruz)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3634039847604575056.post-6622672449763668976Fri, 13 May 2016 17:37:00 +00002016-05-13T10:37:16.161-07:00bathroomsDepartment of EducationDepartment of Justiceeducationgender identityNorth Carolinasex discriminationtransgenderFederal Government Issues Guidance for Schools, Educational Programs, re: Transgender Students “When it’s time to change, you’ve got to rearrange Who you are and what you're gonna be” The Department of Justice and the Department of Education today issued a significant guidance document today to help schools comply with their obligations toward transgender students under Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972 (“Title IX”) – which is a federal statute modeled after part of thehttp://cruz-lines.blogspot.com/2016/05/federal-government-issues-guidance-for.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Prof. David B. Cruz)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3634039847604575056.post-7889703524239426415Fri, 08 Jan 2016 21:17:00 +00002016-01-08T13:17:32.905-08:00amendmentHamiltonNecessary and Proper ClauseTenth AmendmentU.S. ConstitutionAbbott vs. Hamilton “That was a real nice declaration. Welcome to the present, we’re running a real nation.” Happy New Year, everyone!  I’m writing today from the Annual Meeting of the Association of American Law Schools.  After having just attended a Constitutional Law Section session on “Resistance and Recognition,” I returned to my room to see this article by Buzzfeed’s Chris Geidner:  Texas http://cruz-lines.blogspot.com/2016/01/abbott-vs-hamilton.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Prof. David B. Cruz)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3634039847604575056.post-3272245072816992804Thu, 24 Sep 2015 05:28:00 +00002015-09-23T22:36:37.265-07:00Dred ScottJeb BushKim DavisLincolnLindsey Grahammarriage equalityMike HuckabeeNOMObergefellRick SantorumTed CruzDred Davis? “Read it in the writing on the wall” I confess to being rather tired of hearing too much about the extremely small minority of individuals actively resisting the Supreme Court’s marriage equality decision in Obergefell v. Hodges this summer.  But, to quote Justice Scalia’s acerbic opinion in the Court’s 1992 case Planned Parenthood v. Casey, “it is beyond human nature to leave http://cruz-lines.blogspot.com/2015/09/dred-davis.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Prof. David B. Cruz)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3634039847604575056.post-7046999797618730386Mon, 27 Apr 2015 19:26:00 +00002015-04-27T19:24:39.972-07:00marriagemarriage equalityFear and Loving in Washington “And you and me are free to be you and me” It is surprisingly quiet here outside the Supreme Court of the United States the day before the Court hears oral arguments in Obergefell v. Hodges and the other three marriage equality cases it is considering this term.  There are a few more protesters, defenders of the old order, than there were yesterday.  The lines, one for the http://cruz-lines.blogspot.com/2015/04/fear-and-loving-in-washington.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Prof. David B. Cruz)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3634039847604575056.post-4147976780303268616Sat, 17 Jan 2015 16:18:00 +00002015-01-17T08:18:59.973-08:00Kentuckymarriagemarriage equalitymarriage recognitionMichiganOhioProp 8sex discriminationsexual orientation discriminationSixth CircuitTennesseeU.S. Supreme CourtU.S. v. WindsorUnveiling Marriage Equality? “’Cause maybe they’ve seen us and welcome us all”     <!--[if gte mso 9]> http://cruz-lines.blogspot.com/2014/02/federal-court-holds-texas-marriage.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Prof. David B. Cruz)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3634039847604575056.post-2486442149722547154Sat, 15 Feb 2014 02:09:00 +00002014-02-14T18:09:12.099-08:00equal protectionmarriage equalitymarriage recognitionsexual orientation discriminationU.S. v. WindsorVirginiaFederal Court Holds Virginia Ban on Same-Sex Couples’ Marrying Unconstitutional “Now that the weight has lifted/Love has surely shifted in my way” The Valentine’s Day presents just keep coming:  One day after a federal court in Kentucky held unconstitutional the state’s refusal to recognize marriages same-sex couples validly entered in other states (discussed on CruzLines here), a federal trial judge ruled late on February 13 that Virginia’s laws denying recognitionhttp://cruz-lines.blogspot.com/2014/02/federal-court-holds-virginia-ban-on.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Prof. David B. Cruz)0