Tag: mississippi 15-week ban

Amici are legal scholars with expertise in international and comparative law. The brief provides the Court with a comparative analysis of national abortion laws globally, concluding that the viability standard established in Roe and Casey is consistent with abortion laws of comparable jurisdictions, namely countries with similar legal traditions and political systems. The brief demonstrates […]

Amici are independent human rights experts appointed by the United Nations Human Rights Council, including Special Rapporteurs and members of the UN Working Group on discrimination against women and girls. The brief explains how international human rights law protects abortion access and how human rights law should guide the Court in this case. The brief […]

Amici are established legal scholars with expert knowledge of the European Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms (ECHR) and the jurisprudence of the European Court of Human Rights. The brief explains that abortion is legal and widely available in most of the 47 Member States of the Council of Europe. The […]

Amici are legal scholars with expertise in reproductive justice. The brief argues that the Mississippi abortion ban is unconstitutional and would impose significant burdens on a vulnerable group of marginalized people – Black women. Reproductive justice understands that reproductive autonomy includes the right to decide whether to continue or terminate a pregnancy. Amici argue that […]

Amici are law professors who research, write, and teach about court procedure, federal courts, judicial decision making, and civil procedure. Amici argue that the Supreme Court does not generally allow a party to challenge established precedent in its merits briefing if its certiorari petition did not ask the Court to do so. This is a […]

Amicus is the Information Society Project (ISP) at Yale Law School. Many of the scholars associated with the ISP have special expertise in First, Fourth, and Fourteenth Amendment jurisprudence, including the impact of this jurisprudence on reproductive rights and justice. Amicus argues that the Court’s precedent recognizes that the right to abortion stems from and […]

Amici are equal protection constitutional law scholars. Amici argue that under the Court’s precedent, the Equal Protection Clause supplies an independent basis, in addition to the Liberty Clause, for the constitutional right to an abortion. Amici explain why laws that regulate pregnancy, including abortion bans, are sex classifications subject to heightened scrutiny. Amici argue that […]

Amici are the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights, and other civil rights organizations. Amici address the significant reliance interests at stake in this case, particularly for Black women, and argue that low-income individuals and Black women would be disproportionately impacted and shoulder the burden of Mississippi’s […]

Amici are constitutional law scholars. The brief argues that the right to abortion is well grounded in the Constitution under the Fourteenth Amendment’s Due Process Clause and rejecting a Due Process right to abortion would upend other Due Process rights. Amici argue that stare decisis requires the Court to uphold precedent establishing the right to […]

Amicus is the Constitutional Accountability Center, a think tank, public interest law firm, and action center dedicated to fulfilling the progressive promise of the Constitution’s text and history. The brief argues that the text and history of the Fourteenth Amendment protect individual rights essential to liberty. It demonstrates that the State’s arguments for overruling Roe […]