{"id":13014,"date":"2022-11-21T09:00:46","date_gmt":"2022-11-21T14:00:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/journals.law.harvard.edu\/crcl\/?p=13014"},"modified":"2022-11-19T20:57:57","modified_gmt":"2022-11-20T01:57:57","slug":"this-week-in-civil-rights-and-civil-liberties-34","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/journals.law.harvard.edu\/crcl\/this-week-in-civil-rights-and-civil-liberties-34\/","title":{"rendered":"This Week in Civil Rights and Civil Liberties"},"content":{"rendered":"

Welcome to This Week in Civil Rights and Civil Liberties. The Respect for Marriage Act moves forward in the Senate, Florida\u2019s \u201cStop W.O.K.E. Act\u201d is halted, DOJ opens a disability rights case, and more.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

The U.S. Senate advanced the Respect for Marriage Act.<\/b> The Act<\/span><\/a> would protect marriage equality, but it notably does not codify<\/span> Obergefell v. Hodges<\/span><\/i><\/a>, the 2015 Supreme Court case that invalidated bans on same-sex marriage. Specifically, the Act requires states to recognize same-sex marriages performed elsewhere, but it does not require them to issue same-sex marriage licenses. In the lame duck session, all 50 Democrats and 12 Republicans voted to <\/span>advance<\/span><\/a> the bill, surpassing\u00a0 the 60-vote threshold needed to defeat the filibuster. The law will still face a final vote in the Senate, then move to the House of Representatives for passage.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

A federal judge blocked enforcement of Florida\u2019s HB 7 (\u201cStop W.O.K.E. Act\u201d).<\/b> The <\/span>Act was challenged<\/span><\/a> by a group of multi-racial educators and a student under the First and Fourteenth Amendments, and a federal judge granted a <\/span>preliminary injunction<\/span><\/a> to the plaintiffs in the case. The judge wrote, \u201cThe law officially bans professors from expressing disfavored viewpoints in university classrooms while permitting unfettered expression of the opposite viewpoints. Defendants argue that, under this Act, professors enjoy \u2018academic freedom\u2019 so long as they express only those viewpoints of which the State approves. This is positively dystopian. It should go without saying that \u2018[i]f liberty means anything at all it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.\u2019\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Department of Justice opens disability-related investigation in Missouri.<\/b> The Department will <\/span>investigate<\/span><\/a> the state\u2019s use of skilled nursing facilities under the Americans with Disabilities Act. Specifically, the investigation will focus on whether the state \u201cunnecessarily institutionalizes adults with serious mental illness in skilled nursing facilities\u201d and \u201cwhether the State\u2019s use of guardianship for people with serious mental illness contributes to unnecessary placements in nursing facilities.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

The Council on American-Islamic Relations joined a lawsuit challenging alleged discriminatory zoning practices.<\/b> The <\/span>lawsuit<\/span><\/a> is brought against Pittsfield Township, Michigan for allegedly treating a local business owned by a Palestinian-American Muslim differently without proof of any legitimate zoning or regulatory concern of the township. According to CAIR, \u201cPittsfield Township reportedly has a history of discriminatory zoning practices involving Muslims and Arab-Americans.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

More than 100 organizations and experts signed an open letter in support of Amber Heard.<\/b> The <\/span>letter<\/span><\/a> \u201ccalled for an end to online harassment and intimidation of individuals who report sexual and domestic abuse.\u201d Notable signatories include Professor Catharine A. MacKinnon, Gloria Steinem, Constance Wu, and Jaclyn Friedman, along with organizations like the National Women\u2019s Law Center, Women\u2019s March Foundation, National Organization for Women, and Equality Now. The letter responds to the trend of alleged abusers weaponizing defamation law against victims and survivors of sexual and domestic violence, as well as the virulent abuse directed at Amber Heard during the infamous defamation trial.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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