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U.S. Supreme Court,
Health Care & Hospital Law,
Constitutional Law,
Civil Rights

Jul. 3, 2018

NIFLA v Becerra: folly, fallout and follow-up

The Supreme Court's decision in the case was bad for women's right to choose, but Justice Kennedy's retirement may be worse.

Sanford Jay Rosen

Partner Rosen, Bien, Galvan & Grunfeld LLP

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Yale Law School; New Haven CT

Devin W. Mauney

Associate California Dept. of Justice

Phone: (202) 868-0868

Email: Devin.Mauney@doj.ca.gov

Harvard Univ Law School; Cambridge MA

Anti-abortion and abortion-rights activists demonstrate outside the U.S. Supreme Court in Washington, June 22, 2018. (Erin Schaff/The New York Times)

OCTOBER 2017 TERM

In a week marked by Justice Anthony Kennedy's retirement and the U.S. Supreme Court's approval of the travel ban, the court's sweeping and somewhat puzzling NIFLA v. Becerra (2018 DJDAR 6224, June 26, 2018) decision was just one among many troubling moments.

In NIFLA, the court addressed First Amendment challenges to California's 2015 ...

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