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ABC News
Roe v. Wade on the line as Supreme Court takes up Mississippi abortion rights case
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November 30, 2021
"This is the most important Supreme Court case on abortion since Roe in 1973, and I don't think it's particularly close," said Sherif Girgis, Notre Dame law professor and former clerk to Justice Samuel Alito.
CBS News
Supreme Court prepares to hear biggest abortion fight in decades
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November 30, 2021
"There is no middle ground in Dobbs," said Sherif Girgis, a professor at University of Notre Dame Law School who clerked for Justice Samuel Alito.
Inside Higher Ed
Gay Men Earn Degrees at Highest Rate, Study Finds
November 30, 2021
“Across data sets and across the different educational outcomes that I looked at, gay men outpaced straight men by substantial margins,” said Joel Mittleman, the study’s author and an assistant professor of sociology at the University of Notre Dame.
CNN
Roe v. Wade has been the law of the land for nearly 50 years. Will that matter?
November 30, 2021
But O. Carter Snead, a Notre Dame Law School professor, believes the court would be repairing its institutional legitimacy by overruling Roe.
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Notre Dame Law School
Newsweek
States Must Stop Discriminating Against Religious Schools | Opinion
November 30, 2021
Richard W. Garnett is the Paul J. Schierl/Fort Howard Corporation Professor of Law at the University of Notre Dame. Olivia Rodgers is a 2L Law student at the Notre Dame Religious Liberty Initiative.
ND Experts
Notre Dame Law School
The Washington Post
Future of abortion rights at stake as Supreme Court considers Mississippi case
November 30, 2021
“It’s very hard for me to see how the court could uphold the 15-week law without entirely eliminating the constitutional entitlement to elective abortions in Roe and Casey,” said University of Notre Dame law professor Sherif Girgis, a former clerk to Justice Samuel A. Alito Jr.
Associated Press
Supreme Court set to take up all-or-nothing abortion fight
November 29, 2021
“There are no half measures here,” said Sherif Girgis, a Notre Dame law professor who once served as a law clerk for Justice Samuel Alito.
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The Washington Post
For Clarence Thomas, avowed critic of Roe v. Wade, Mississippi abortion case a moment long awaited
November 29, 2021
At the symposium on Thomas’s jurisprudence, Notre Dame law professor Nicole Stelle Garnett said her fellow Thomas clerks became familiar with it.
The New York Times
Twitter’s Jack Dorsey Steps Down From C.E.O. Role
November 29, 2021
“If you stand back and you think about who’s had a big influence on social media over the past decade, the name Jack Dorsey is always going to come up,” said Tim Hubbard, assistant professor of management at the University of Notre Dame’s Mendoza College of Business.
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Mendoza College of Business
MarketWatch
Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey to step down and be replaced by CTO Parag Agrawal
November 29, 2021
“The stock price jumping is an indication that the market might have felt that a new CEO with a focus only on the one company might be more effective,” said Tim Hubbard, a management professor at University of Notre Dame’s Mendoza College of Business, in an emailed statement.
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Mendoza College of Business
Religion News Service
For US Mormons, religiosity has declined over time, study shows
November 23, 2021
As political scientist David Campbell of the University of Notre Dame has analyzed the Congressional Election Study, the trend line for Mormons shows some decline compared with two other minority religions over the same period.
ND Experts
Political Science
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Newsweek
After Kyle Rittenhouse's Acquittal, Will His Rifle Be Returned to Him?
November 19, 2021
Jimmy Gurule, a law professor at the University of Notre Dame's Law School explained to Newsweek that evidence is generally impounded until it is released by the court and the defense counsel must file a motion in order to have it released.
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Notre Dame Law School
The Economist
America’s Catholic schools are seeing a surprising rise in enrollment
November 18, 2021
Father Joe Corpora of the University of Notre Dame warns: “We’ll never get another chance like this again.”
NPR
Catholic bishops endorse communion guidelines for public figures
November 18, 2021
NPR's A Martinez talks to Kathleen Sprows Cummings of Notre Dame, about U.S. Catholic Bishops approving a position paper urging Catholics to abide by church teachings if they take communion.
ND Experts
American Studies