U.S. Supreme Court,
Constitutional Law
Jul. 6, 2018
Kennedy's parting can(n)on of ferociously unregulated speech for pro-life pregnancy clinics
With his concurring opinion in NIFLA v. Becerra, the high court's swing voter is leaving with roar, not a whimper.
David Boyle
Yale University; University of Michigan School of Law
David is an attorney in Long Beach.
OCTOBER 2017 TERM
On June 26, in the case of NIFLA v. Becerra, 2018 DJDAR 6224, the U.S. Supreme Court overturned the state of California's laws forcing "pro-life," largely religious, clinics for pregnant women to advertise state-provided abortion services and to disclose if the clinics were unlicensed. The court's decision is in the shadow of retiring Justice Anthony Kennedy, not just for his epochal retirement, bu...
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