426 ABA Journal Abortion articles.
Mississippi voters will be asked to vote Nov. 8 on a “personhood” amendment, a new tack in the abortion fight that is splitting abortion opponents.
The proposed state constitutional amendment…
Oct 26, 2011 12:10 PM CDT
Six out of eight candidates for the Republican presidential nomination are backing limits on the federal judiciary, ranging from an end to lifetime tenure to impeachment to curbs on jurisdiction.
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Justice Antonin Scalia predicted Monday that the Supreme Court’s decision in Kelo v. City of New London will be overturned.
Speaking to students at the Chicago-Kent School of Law, Scalia…
Oct 19, 2011 1:05 PM CDT
Former Kansas Attorney General Phill Kline should be indefinitely suspended from practicing law for his alleged misconduct in the handling of criminal investigations of abortion providers in the mid-2000s, a…
Oct 14, 2011 9:19 PM CDT
A federal judge refused Thursday to block enforcement of a new Kansas law restricting insurance coverage for abortions.
The law, which took effect July 1, prohibits insurance companies from offering…
Sep 30, 2011 9:27 PM CDT
A federal judge has temporarily barred Idaho from enforcing a decades-old state law prohibiting women from terminating their own pregnancy.
The law, enacted in 1972, criminalizes abortions not specifically authorized…
Sep 29, 2011 9:41 PM CDT
A Texas federal judge in the news lately for his sarcastic orders chastising lawyers is now himself facing criticism from the chief judge of the New Orleans-based court that hears…
Sep 13, 2011 12:00 PM CDT
Updated: A federal judge known for not mincing words swiftly achieved the desired effect by inviting two apparently squabbling attorneys to a “kindergarten party” in his Austin, Texas, courtroom.
Following…
Sep 1, 2011 9:42 PM CDT
A federal judge has blocked key parts of a Texas law that required women seeking abortions to view sonograms of the fetus and listen to the heartbeat.
U.S. District Judge…
Aug 31, 2011 12:07 PM CDT
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The nomination of a former Kansas attorney general to a federal appeals court has been scuttled amid controversy over his stance on Obama’s health care law and an abortion clinic…
Jul 29, 2011 3:54 PM CDT
Corrected: Alleged mob boss James “Whitey” Bulger is being represented at public expense by a well-known Boston lawyer known for taking on difficult cases.
He is J.W. Carney Jr., once…
Jul 1, 2011 4:28 PM CDT
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Kentucky police are investigating a mystery involving a leaked Kentucky appeals opinion on minors’ abortion rights.
The once-secret opinion allows minor girls from other states to ask Kentucky judges for…
Jun 29, 2011 11:35 AM CDT
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