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B. Jessie Hill, J.D. – Judge Ben C. Green Professor of Law |
Friday October 18, 2019
12:30-1:30 p.m.
Dampeer Room
Kelvin Smith Library*
Case Western Reserve University
Dear Colleagues:
On October 4, the Supreme Court announced that it would hear a challenge to a Louisiana law that requires doctors who perform abortions in the state to have a right to admit patients to a nearby hospital. The case of June Medical Services LLC v. Gee involves the 5th Circuit having upheld that law, in spite of its seeming contradiction with the Supreme Court’s rejection of a similar Texas law in Whole Woman’s Health v. Hellerstedt (decided in 2016). Requiring admitting privileges may seem logical, but hospitals give privileges to physicians who use the hospital a lot, and abortions very rarely lead to complications requiring hospitalization. Therefore clinic physicians are unlikely to have privileges. So the likely (and intended) result of the law is to eliminate access to abortion services.
In another development, on June 20 a three-judge panel of the 9th Circuit overturned results from three district courts and allowed the Trump Administration’s “gag rule,” which forbids recipients of Title X family planning funds from referring patients for abortion, to go into effect rather than being delayed until litigation was complete. On September 23 this ruling was reviewed in an “en banc” hearing of the entire 9th Circuit, but in the meantime Planned Parenthood and other providers have felt compelled to cease providing Title X services. Numerous states also have passed stringent anti-abortion laws that would seem to be blocked by the precedent of Roe v. Wade. Clearly their leaders are guessing that the new Supreme Court membership could be ready to overturn that precedent.
In short, the status quo about reproductive rights is under attack in many ways. Join us as Professor Hill, a leading expert in the field, reviews the cases, their merits, and their prospects.
All best regards,
Joe White
Luxenberg Family Professor of Public Policy and Director, Center for Policy Studies
About Our Guest
Jessie Hill, J.D., is the Judge Ben C. Green Professor of Law. She joined the faculty in 2003 after practicing First Amendment and civil rights law with the firm of Berkman, Gordon, Murray & DeVan in Cleveland. Before entering private practice, Hill worked at the Reproductive Freedom Project of the national ACLU office in New York, litigating challenges to state-law restrictions on reproductive rights. She also served as law clerk to the Honorable Karen Nelson Moore of the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit. Hill’s teaching focuses on constitutional law, federal civil procedure, civil rights, reproductive rights, and law and religion. Her scholarship has been published in the Michigan Law Review and the Texas Law Review, among others.
Where We Meet
The Friday Public Affairs Lunch convenes each Friday when classes are in session, from 12:30 p.m. to 1:30 p.m. Our programs are open to all and no registration is required. We usually meet in the Dampeer Room of Kelvin Smith Library.
* Kelvin Smith Library requires all entrants to show identification when entering the building, unless they have a university i.d. that they can magnetically scan. We are sorry if that seems like a hassle, but it has been Library policy for a while in response to security concerns. Please do not complain to the library staff at the entrance, who are just doing their jobs.
Parking Possibilities
The most convenient parking is the lot underneath Severance Hall. We regret that it is not free. From that lot there is an elevator up to street level (labeled as for the Thwing Center); it is less than 50 yards from that exit to the library entrance. You can get from the Severance garage to the library without going outside. Near the entry gates – just to the right if you were driving out – there is a door into a corridor. Walk down the corridor and there will be another door. Beyond that door you’ll find the entrance to an elevator which goes up to an entrance right inside the doors to Kelvin Smith Library.
Schedule of Friday Lunch Upcoming Topics and Speakers:
October 25: Brexit Trick or Treat. With Luke Reader, Full-Time Lecturer in English.
November 1: Local News: Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow. With Joseph Frolik, Senior Vice President for Communication, Community Relations and Government Relations, MetroHealth.
November 8: TBA. With Peter Shulman, Associate Professor of History.
November 15: Will We Ever Have Paris? The U.S. and the International Politics of Climate Change. With Matthew Hodgetts, Visiting Assistant Professor of Political Science.
November 22: The (New?) Israeli Government. With Peter J. Haas, Abba Hillel Silver Professor Emeritus of Jewish Studies.
November 29: Thanksgiving break
December 6: Papers Please: Challenging Citizenship in the United States. With Cassandra Burke Robertson, John Deaver Drinko – Baker Hostetler Professor of Law and Director, Center for Professional Ethics. |
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October 13, 2019
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Upcoming Events
A Life at the Intersection of Private, Public, and Nonprofit Sectors
A discussion with Lee Fisher, Dean and Professor of Law, Cleveland-Marshall College of Law, Cleveland State University, Wednesday October 16, 4:30-5:30 p.m., LL06 B/C, Kelvin Smith Library, 11055 Euclid Ave, Cleveland, OH 44106.
Fisher’s diverse career has spanned the private, public, nonprofit, and academic sectors. In addition to serving as Dean, he is Senior Fellow, Cleveland State University’s Levin College of Urban Affairs, and Urban Scholar, College of Urban Planning and Public Affairs and the Great Cities Institute, University of Illinois at Chicago. Fisher served as President/CEO of CEOs for Cities, nationwide innovation network for city success, for six years.
Fisher clerked for Judge Paul C. Weick of the U.S Court of Appeals for the 6th Circuit. He has decades of experience in legal practice, most extensively with Cleveland-based Hahn Loeser as Of Counsel from 1978-1990 and Partner from 1995-1999. He served as Ohio Attorney General and was the first Ohio Attorney General to personally argue cases before the Ohio Supreme Court and the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 6th Circuit.
In addition to serving as Attorney General, Fisher has served as Ohio Lt. Governor; Director, Ohio Department of Development; Chair, Ohio Third Frontier Commission; State Senator; and State Representative. He also served as President and CEO of the Centers for Families and Children. Fisher is a graduate of Oberlin College and served on the Oberlin College Board of Trustees for 12 years. He earned his law degree from Case Western Reserve University School of Law; he was the first recipient of the School of Law’s Distinguished Recent Graduate Award and was inducted in the School of Law’s Society of Benchers. He also earned his Master of Nonprofit Organization from the CWRU Mandel Center for Nonprofit Organizations.
Military Medical Ethics: Battlefield Care for Compatriots, Host-Nation Nationals, and Captured Persons
A discussion with Michael L. Gross, Ph.D., Professor of Political Science at the University of Haifa, Israel, Thursday October 24, 2019, 1:00 – 2:15 p.m., Tinkham Veale University Center, Inamori Center Classroom 280F, 11038 Bellflower Rd, Cleveland, OH 44106.
Professor Gross’s most recent books include The Ethics of Insurgency (2015) and Soft War: The Ethics of Unarmed Conflict (2017, co-edited with Tamar Meisels). He has led workshops on battlefield ethics, medicine, and national security for the Dutch Ministry of Defense, the U.S. Army Medical Department, the U.K Defense Medical Services, the U.S. Naval Academy and War College, and the Israel National Defense College.
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