In a 1974 decision, Geduldig v. Aiello the Supreme Court had come to the ridiculous conclusion that as a constitutional matter, discrimination against pregnant women in eligibility for insurance and other benefits was not discrimination on the basis of sex.
Almost 50 years after the 1967 referendum removed two constitutional provisions discrimination against Indigenous Australians, Recognise is launching a campaign called Why I Recognise.
"To my mind, that is at worst a failure of perception or, as the court elsewhere calls it, 'a lapse of sensitivity,' not constitutional viewpoint discrimination," the university's counsel, David R. Scott, said in a statement.
Courthouse News Service reports that U.S. District Judge Rosemary Collyer recently dismissed some of the constitutional and discrimination claims that Tonia Jones and Kenniss Weeks brought against the District of Columbia and has limited the damages the two may seek.
The California Supreme Court unanimously agreed to decide whether the state's ban on same-sex marriage violates a constitutional ban on discrimination.
The central question in the new case is the extent to which the justices view disability as having heightened constitutional protection against discrimination.
We specifically looked at laws related to domestic violence, harassment, abortion, property and employment rights, as well as constitutional laws on discrimination and equality.
The Court of Appeals, New York's highest court, held that the measure violated the federal constitutional prohibition on discrimination by one state against residents of other states.
Kicked off on Nov. 30, it addresses questions like: "What if someone is convicted for murder, and then the victim comes back to life?" And whether mutants are a legally recognizable class entitled to constitutional protection from discrimination.
South Africa was the first country in the world to put a constitutional ban on discrimination by any individual or institution, private or public, on the basis of sexual orientation.
A constitutional amendment outlawing discrimination, including the sexual-orientation kind, was unanimously passed in Guyana last month, but the president will not sign it and it is likely to lapse.A handful of Caribbean countries have had to change without debate.
