The Supreme Court in the intimate lives of Americans
Subtitle: birth, sex, marriage, childrearing, and death
By: Howard Ball.
Publisher: New York University Press
Published: 2004
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 265
Subjects: United States. -- Supreme Court -- History; Human reproduction -- Law and legislation -- United States -- History; Abortion -- Law and legislation -- United States -- History; Right to die -- Law and legislation -- United States -- History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 251-258) and index.
Table of contents: title: "Fundamental" rights versus state interests: the balancing process. "I am not talking very much like a lawyer"; title: The U.S. Supreme court and "fundamental" rights; title: The liberty and rights protected by the Due Process Clause; title: Is there a protected liberty interest for persons having intimate homosexual relations?; title: The limits of sexual privacy. Marriage and marital privacy. "I should like to suggest a substantial change for your consideration"; title: Heterosexual marriage; title: Molecular changes in the definition and reality of the traditional marital relationship; title: The dilemma of intimate violence and congressional passage of the Violence Against Women Act (VAWA), 1994; title: Same-sex marriage; title: Congressional passage of the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA), 1996. The "rhapsody of the unitary family". "Something smells about this case"; title: Who is family?; title: Family privacy versus state interests; title: Family privacy rights versus personal autonomy and other constitutional rights. Motherhood or not, that is her decision. "I will be God-damned!"; title: Not having children: abortion as a personal right; title: After Roe, what are the limits of "state actions" that regulate the abortion procedure?; title: After Roe, what are a husband's rights?; title: When a minor daughter wants to terminate her pregnancy; title: 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"; title: Raising and educating children; title: The mental and physical health and welfare of the child; title: Children's rights: visiting the grandparents. "Let me go!": death in the family. "This case should never have been started"; title: Terminating life support for an incompetent family member: passive euthanasia; title: Physician-assisted suicide: active euthanasia. Family and personal privacy in the twenty-first century. "She kept screaming"; title: Is the house still a castle?; title: The "medical necessity" exception and federal anti-marijuana-use law.