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State attitudes to sexuality

Michael — Tue, 20 May 2008 10:44:22 -0700

It is interesting to observe where official State attitudes have gone between Dr Jocelyn Elders and the current Administration's policy 's around ABC. For a light hearted discussion see Dr Susan Block's article Come As You Are.

Thank you!

Ducky DooLittle — Tue, 06 May 2008 07:25:43 -0700

Clits rule! (Thanks for the shout out. Very sweet.) xoxo - Ducky

Good Idea

JanieBelle — Tue, 19 Feb 2008 05:10:23 -0800

I dont know of such a place, Elizabeth. It would be a great idea to have a little legal corner here that tracks just these types of cases.

Ed Brayton at Dispatches from the Culture Wars usually mentions them, although his range and scope are much wider.

His take on this case is here .

Found it

JanieBelle — Tue, 19 Feb 2008 04:59:30 -0800

OK, I started going through, looking at every single decision handed down recently, and here it is:

Reliable Consultants vs Abbott , docket number 06-51067. (.pdf)

Reavley, Barksdale, Prado

Reavley (listed as not active since 1990?) was appointed by President Carter, Barksdale was appointed by the elder President Bush, and Prado by the younger.

Miss Molly would be shocked

JanieBelle — Tue, 19 Feb 2008 04:49:40 -0800

Hi Anthony,

Thanks for your thoughts.

Couple things-

The newspaper article above doesn't mention the actual name or docket number of the case, and I'm having trouble finding the opinion at the Fifth circuit's website, so I can't tell exactly who said what in the ruling. It was handed down on February 12th, so it should be there, I'm just not recognizing the case by its official name.

Also, although this is great news that the Fifth pulled it's head out of its collective butt, and pulled Texas lawmakers out of Texas panty drawers, remember that the Eleventh went the other way. I'm not optimistic of the results should the decision reach the Supremes in that court's current state. Hopefully it won't make it there until sanity is restored to the majority on that bench.

As you point out, however, the Fifth is a very conservatively appointed court, so maybe I'm wrong about the SCotUS as well.

Of the sixteen judges currently seated on the Fifth circuit, they break down like this :

1 appointed by President Carter

4 appointed by President Reagan

3 appointed by President Bush the elder

3 appointed by President Clinton

5 appointed by President Bush the younger

1 empty seat with a nomination pending

Let me amend this comment for accuracy to add that there are five Senior Judges listed as not active, and they break down like this:

1 appointed by President Carter (Judge Reavley, see following comment)

3 appointed by President Reagan

1 appointed by President Bush the elder

Court tracker

Elizabeth — Tue, 19 Feb 2008 02:30:47 -0800

Wouldn't it be cool to have a page on this site that tracked courts and their sex-related or privacy-related decisions? Is there a blog out there that does that? I know lots of us write about decisions as they happen, but is there anyone that puts that information all together in a neat court-by-court / issue by issue format?

And somewhere in heaven, Miss Molly (Ivins) is applauding.

Anthony_K — Mon, 18 Feb 2008 19:36:03 -0800

It's about damn time that the Fifth Circuit joined the 21st Century...considering how conservative that court has been, it took some real balls to make that kind of ruling....or just plain damn common sense that you just can't stand between a woman and her sex toy.

Of course, this will fuel all the right-wingnut flamethrowers about "liberal judicial activists"...except that most of the Fifth were Reagan/Bush appointees, I believe??

Anthony

cross-posted

Goldslut — Wed, 13 Feb 2008 19:46:52 -0800

This is cross-posted from Gold Slut Standard.