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Sessions v. Morales-Santana: Gender-based classifications in the Immigration and Nationality Act struck down by the U.S. Supreme Court By Robert Heuer International and Immigration Law, November 2017 On June 12, 2017, the Supreme Court issued a ruling in furtherance of gender equality, striking down as violative of the Fifth Amendment’s equal protection guarantee a provision of the Immigration and Nationality Act (8 U.S.C. § 1401 et seq.) that treated unmarried men and women differently in their ability to transmit U.S. citizenship to their children born abroad.
Sessions v. Morales-Santana: Gender-based classifications in the Immigration and Nationality Act struck down by the U.S. Supreme Court By Robert Heuer Human and Civil Rights, September 2017 On June 12, 2017, the Supreme Court issued a ruling in furtherance of gender equality, striking down as violative of the Fifth Amendment’s equal protection guarantee a provision of the Immigration and Nationality Act (8 U.S.C. § 1401 et seq.) that treated unmarried men and women differently in their ability to transmit U.S. citizenship to their children born abroad.
Hively v. Ivy Tech: Seventh Circuit holds that sexual orientation discrimination is a form of sex discrimination prohibited under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 By Robert Heuer Human and Civil Rights, June 2017 This decision makes the Seventh Circuit the highest court in the nation to hold that sexual orientation discrimination is a form of sex discrimination under Title VII.
A note from the editors By Kathryn E. Eisenhart & Robert Heuer Human and Civil Rights, May 2015 An introduction to the issue from co-editors Kathryn Eisenhart and Robert Heuer.
Human rights-related articles from Illinois law school journals in 2013 By Robert Heuer Human and Civil Rights, March 2014 A list of articles published in 2013 in Illinois law school journals relating to human rights issues in a broad range of legal topics.

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