Ohio law permits a person to correct their birth certificate if the basis for the correction is a mistake, adoption, or legal name change. In 2015, the Ohio Department of Health (ODH) decided to prohibit changes to the gender marker on an Ohio birth certificate when the basis is that the person is transgender. In Ray v.
In Ray v. McCloud, 507 F. Supp. 3d 925 (S.D. Ohio 2020) the same plaintiffs in Ray v. Himes (S.D. Ohio 2019), sought summary judgment on their claims that Ohio’s continued refusal to amend gender markers on birth certificates violated the Constitution.
Aida Armani worked as a hairstylist at Raya and Haig Hair Salon. One of her customers, Kadyshes, began verbally and physically sexually harassing Aida by telling sexual jokes, commenting on her breasts, telling her she would be good in bed, and touching her rear and shoulders. The Salon eventually hired Kadyshes as a business manager, and he became Aida’s direct supervisor. Aida complained on at least six occasions but no action was taken to stop Kadyshes’s conduct. Eventually Aida decided to open her own salon but before she could resign the Hair Salon learned of he
Here, the parties lived together for approximately six years. Following a separation, plaintiff moved out, and the parties disputed personal property ownership. On one occasion, the plaintiff went to the defendant’s house for dinner and the parties got into an argument. The plaintiff picked up the defendant’s small dog and took it with her to leave. This led to the defendant kicking the plaintiff’s car door and using physical force against the plaintiff in an attempt to recover the dog. The plaintiff obtained a temporary abuse order.
Report by Rashida Manjoo, Special Rapporteur on violence against women, its causes and consequences, on her mission to the United States of America (2011).
State duty to enforce court-ordered protective order. Jessica Gonzales' three children were killed when local police failed to enforced a restraining order against her estranged husband. The Supreme Court of the United States ruled that no affirmative duty exists on the part of the government to enforce a protective order.
The Reproductive Health Act updates New York State law to recognize that decisions regarding contraception, sterilization, pregnancy, and abortion are core matters of health and personal privacy. It authorizes qualified medical professionals, not just physicians, to provide abortion care. The act permits abortion at any point in pregnancy when the patient’s life or health is at risk or when the fetus is nonviable. It removes older Penal Law provisions that criminalized abortion and replaces them with a health-care framework consistent with current medical practice.
A woman was fired from her job at the NYC Department of Corrections (“Department”) for violating its sick leave policy. She was a victim of domestic violence, and in 2002 she requested vacation time to find a home after leaving her abuser. When she did not find a home within her given vacation time, she requested more time off to continue searching for a place to live. As a result of her request, her employer put her on immediate sick leave and demanded that she provide them with an address.
In this case, the Rhode Island Supreme Court set out the standard of scrutiny with which to view the constitutionality of laws that discriminate based on gender: “If an act employs a gender-based classification, it is subject to a middle-tier scrutiny in which the classification must be substantially related to the achievement of the statutory objective.”
