Fourteenth Amendment: Due Process and Interstate Prison Transfers

The bakke case and the fourteenth amendment.

Fourteenth amendment--the right to refuse antipsychotic drugs masked by prison bars.

The abortion right, originalism, and the Fourteenth Amendment.

Dialogic Fidelity: The Fourteenth Amendment, Historical Meaning, and Appropriate Scrutiny for Sex Discrimination

Last Term, the Supreme Court confronted constitutional issues of sex discrimination and search and seizure. First, in Atwater v. City of Lago Vista,1 the Court held that the Fourth Amendment creates no bar to the warrantless arrest of a citizen for a misdemeanor criminal offense. Then, in Nguyen v. INS,2 the Court upheld against an equal protection challenge a statute that imposed different req...

Do Fourteenth Amendment considerations outweigh a potential state interest in mandating cochlear implantation for deaf children?

Currently, the decision concerning pediatric cochlear implantation for children remains a personal choice for parents to make. Economic factors, educational outcomes, and societal attitudes concerning deafness could result in an increased governmental interest in this choice. This article examines case law related to the issue of parental autonomy to determine whether the state, acting in the r...