Author Description

The 2024 Supplement captures major family law developments since the publication of the main text. These include edited versions of recent headlining Supreme Court decisions like Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization (overturning Roe v. Wade, Planned Parenthood v. Casey, and the constitutional abortion right that they protect), Bostock v. Clayton County (on Title VII and how its sex discrimination provision covers anti-gay and anti-trans discrimination), and Fulton v. City of Philadelphia (adjudicating the boundaries of LGBTQ civil rights and First Amendment claims to religious freedom). The 2024 Supplement also features extended descriptions and thought-provoking questions about the impacts on family law of breaking cases including: 303 Creative LLC v. Elenis (recognizing First Amendment free-speech rights against Colorado's public accommodations law and its sexual orientation equality provision), The 2023 Affirmative Action Cases (holding that race-conscious admissions policies in colleges and universities violate the Fourteenth Amendment's Equal Protection Clause), Alliance for Hippocratic Medicine v. FDA (on the FDA's authority to regulate mifepristone), Department of State v. Muñoz (involving the scope and meaning of constitutional marriage rights for U.S. citizens in the immigration setting), L.W. ex rel. Williams v. Skrmetti (a Sixth Circuit decision holding laws banning gender-affirming medical care for transgender youth are likely constitutionally permissible in Dobbs' wake, a case the Supreme Court will hear next Term), United States v. Rahimi (involving the Second Amendment implications of measures designed to protect victims and survivors of domestic violence from gun violence), and LePage v. Ctr. for Reprod. Med., P.C. (