In a huge victory for girls playing high school sports, on February 9, 2012, San Diego District Court Judge James M. Lorenz ruled that the Sweetwater Union High School District violatedTitle IX by unfairly favoring boys’ sports over girls’ sports at Castle Park High School (“CPHS”) by giving the boys better athletic facilities, resources and opportunities. The Court also found that the administration retaliated... [Read More]
The California Women’s Law Center is hosting a discussion on March 14th with Ms. Guo Jianmei, recipient of the 2011 International Women of Courage Award and renowned human rights attorney. Ms. Guo Jianmei, a director of the Beijing Zhongze Women’s Legal Counseling and Service Center, is also widely recognized as China’s leading women’s rights activist. She founded the former Women’s Legal... [Read More]
At this year’s Family Law Conference, sponsored by the Legal Aid Asssociation of California, CWLC Staff Attorney Sarah Kroll-Rosenbaum led a training session on teen dating violence. This training comes from CWLC’s School Training, Outreach, and Policy (S.T.O.P.) Teen Dating Violence Initiative. Teen dating violence is a serious problem, affecting both heterosexual and homosexual relationships and crossing... [Read More]
The Protect Life Act would amend the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act to prohibit the use of federal funds to cover any part of the costs of any health plan that covers abortion services. Sponsored by Joseph Pitts (R-PA), H.R.358 would would allow a hospital the right to refuse to perform emergency abortions when necessary to save the life of the woman. Click here to view the text of the proposed bill. TAKE... [Read More]
The California Women’s Law Center recently received a $74,000 cy pres award from the settlement of a class action lawsuit pending in the United States District Court for the Southern District of California, In re Gemstar/T.V. Guide Securities Litigation. Cy pres awards often are made to charitable organizations like the law center out of unclaimed sums paid into a fund to settle class action litigation. The law firm... [Read More]
Chris Shelton is Professor of Exercise and Sport Studies at Smith College. She’s also a representative for the Americas for the International Working Group on Women and Sport. Chris says that today more girls than ever are interested in a whole range of sports. Whether you go to the barrios in Mexico where girls are playing soccer or the outskirts of Bogota’, where women are rock climbing, women and girls... [Read More]
UPDATE: LOS ANGELES — Los Angeles prosecutors have met with a British actress who claims she was sexually abused by director Roman Polanski when she was 16 in Paris. Forty-two-year-old Charlotte Lewis, speaking at a news conference Friday in Los Angeles, says Polanski abused her in 1982, four years before she appeared in Polanski’s “Pirates” film. District attorney’s spokeswoman Sandi Gibbons... [Read More]
I have no doubt that Elena Kagan is qualified to serve on the Supreme Court, just as I had no doubt that Sonia Sotomayor was (and is!) qualified. But what do their nominations tell us about women in the legal profession today? Two wonderfully successful professional women. One never married/no children. One married for only a few years; never remarried/no children. Doesn’t this suggest that we are still... [Read More]
From our friends at CNN. Two decades ago, Afghanistan’s air force was in full operation against the Soviets. Today, that air force is being rebuilt for a new war, with some of the same helicopters and some of the same pilots as well – including the first woman in the Afghan Air Corps and currently the only one. The only time Capt. Latifa Nabizada left the force was to flee to Pakistan when the Taliban took... [Read More]
“George Huguely has been officially charged with the murder of 22-year-old University of Virginia student Yeardley Love. Love was killed early Monday morning. The Daily Progress reported Huguely admitted to police that, during an argument with Yeardley Love, he “shook Love and her head repeatedly hit the wall,” according to an affidavit requesting a search warrant. It was reported that Love was found face down... [Read More]