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Supreme Court in the Intimate Lives of Americans Birth, Sex, Marriage, Childrearing, and Death

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ISBN-10: 0814798632

ISBN-13: 9780814798638

Edition: 2004

Authors: Howard Ball

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ChoiceOutstanding Academic Title 2003 "...A thorough summary of the trajectory of current case law on the legal regulation of U.S. citizens' intimate lives. . . . A valuable introduction to increasingly important and salient legal questions about the constitutional limits on the state's ability to shape intimate lives in the United States." Political Science Quarterly "...A worthy assessment of the law of intimate association and personal decision-making. For those intrigued by the Court's human side, Ball provides a sufficient glimpse without raising the curtain on its realm of privacy that the justices have strived to protect. Trial "Despite the controversial content of many of the…    
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List price: $30.00
Copyright year: 2004
Publisher: New York University Press
Publication date: 6/28/2004
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 265
Size: 5.98" wide x 9.02" long x 0.59" tall
Weight: 0.858
Language: English

Graham Russell Gao Hodges , a former New York City cabdriver, is the George Dorland Langdon, Jr., Professor of History and Africana and Latin American Studies at Colgate University. He is the author of many books, including David Ruggles: A Radical Black Abolitionist and the Underground Railroad in New York City .    Howard Ball is Emeritus Professor of Political Science and University Scholar at the University of Vermont and Adjunct Professor of Law at Vermont Law School.

"Fundamental" rights versus state interests : the balancing process
"I am not talking very much like a lawyer"
The U.S. Supreme Court and "fundamental" rights
The liberty and rights protected by the due process clause
Is there a protected liberty interest for persons having intimate homosexual relations?
The limits of sexual privacy
Marriage and marital privacy
"I should like to suggest a substantial change for your consideration"
Heterosexual marriage
Molecular changes in the definition and reality of the traditional marital relationship
The dilemma of intimate violence and Congressional passage of the Violence Against Women Act (VAWA), 1994
Same-sex marriage
Congressional passage of the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA), 1996
The "rhapsody of the unitary family"
"Something smells about this case"
Who is family?
Family privacy versus state interests
Family privacy rights versus personal autonomy and other constitutional rights
Motherhood or not, that is her decision
"I will be God-damned!"
Not having children : abortion as a personal right
After Roe, what are the limits of "state actions" that regulate the abortion procedure?
After Roe, what are a husband's rights?
When a minor daughter wants to terminate her pregnancy
Back into the vortex : the "partial birth" abortion controversy
Raising the child : "father knows best"?
"This is really a ridiculous case to be absorbing our time"
Raising and educating children
The mental and physical health and welfare of the child
Children's rights : visiting the grandparents
"Let me go!" : death in the family
"This case should never have been started"
Terminating life support for an incompetent family member : passive euthanasia
Physician-assisted suicide : active euthanasia
Family and personal privacy in the twenty-first century
"She kept screaming"
Is the home still a castle?
The "medical necessity" exception and federal anti-marijuana-use law