The 23rd Circuit will sponsor professional development for the juvenile and family courts under a new Regional Training Initiative offered by the Juvenile Division Education Committee through the Office of State Courts Administrator. The Training Initiative provides resources to reimburse courts for speaker costs and other minor expenses associated with training events, said Curtis Hendricks, Judicial Education Specialist with OSCA.
[...] a number of commentators have suggested that all abstinence-only sex education violates the Establishment Clause.6 If this is so, the logical implication is that courts can and should bring an end to controversies about sex education by declaring victory for the sexual left.7 A complete assessment of the Establishment Clause issues regarding abstinence education is beyond the scope of this Essay.8 My limited goal here is to shed light on one common argument that plays an important role in debates about sex education. [...] courts should be reluctant to use the Establishment Clause to settle sex education controversies.12 Third, we should recognize some limits on the degree to which the public schools can be enlisted as soldiers in the culture wars.
SACRAMENTO, Calif. - Even as the definition of family in America expands and shifts, California courts are trying to keep pace by redefining whom the law regards as parents. Judges have moved beyond traditional notions of biology and adoption and assigned parental rights to adults with no genetic or legal ties to kids.
Allegheny County Family Courts System
State Supreme Court Justice Janice M. Rosa has been named supervising judge of the eight family courts in the state's Buffalo- based Eighth Judicial District. Rosa will fill a nearly 2-year-old vacancy as the State Bar Association is pressing state lawmakers to create more domestic court judgeships to deal with what has been described as a "deep crisis" of management resulting from large caseloads.
Panels composed of professors, judges and attorneys met at Washington University School of Law to discuss what can be done to reform family courts at the school's 9th Annual Access to Justice Colloquium on Friday. Approximately 75 attended the event to learn about court reform in family and juvenile courts, domestic violence, environmental law and intellectual property.
Of course, anyone with a cursory knowledge of the state of the American family knows that it has been largely destroyed, with most children spending at least part of their childhoods without one of meir biological parents at home, a divorce rate of more than 40%, an ever-increasing illegitimacy rate and no-fault divorce laws that render a marriage compact less legally enforceable than a cell-phone contract.
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