Megumi Igarashi, the Japanese "vagina artist" who was arrested on obscenity charges after distributing 3D printable design files of her genitals, has been released after spending a week in jail. "That was an unjust arrest. I don't think my genitals are obscene," she said in a statement upon her release. » 7/21/14 4:30pm 7/21/14 4:30pm

After 30 years, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission has finally improved its guidelines against pregnancy discrimination to coincide with common sense and decency. » 7/16/14 2:55pm 7/16/14 2:55pm

Since 2011, states have passed over 200 restrictions that limit women's access to safe and legal abortions. Although such laws are purportedly meant to protect women's health, experts say that they're simply not medically necessary. But oh well — fairly obviously, the real goal of such legislation is to keep women… » 7/15/14 7:00pm 7/15/14 7:00pm

Earlier this year, Tennessee passed controversial legislation allowing the state to criminally charge mothers for using narcotics while pregnant, calling it "assault" against the fetus. This past week, a new mother became the first woman to be prosecuted under that law after her newborn tested positive for amphetamine. » 7/14/14 7:00pm 7/14/14 7:00pm

In a yet another ruling that indicates that we'd enjoy better legal protection if we just incorporated our reproductive organs and sent them to murder civilians in Iraq, the Supreme Court has ruled that corporations that are "closely held" cannot be required to provide contraceptive coverage. Which means that under… » 6/30/14 10:20am 6/30/14 10:20am

It used to be that antisocial and threatening behavior was carried out through painstaking work like cutting out letters from magazines and pasting them together into scary missives, but those were the old days. Now all hostile jerks have to do is sign online and they're free to harass people from the relative… » 6/24/14 3:00pm 6/24/14 3:00pm

Every six months or so, some dusty old fuddy duddy writes something truly idiotic about how female lawyers are too slutty or frumpy or, uh, female to be taken seriously, and how any glass ceiling that exists in the legal field is built out of trendy heels and fashionable blouses. Well, this time around, we've done it.… » 6/19/14 1:40pm 6/19/14 1:40pm

Meet Marilyn D. York, a divorce and family law attorney practicing in Reno, Nevada. She will get you yours if your wife has been secretly plotting to divorce you even though she's "finally losing that baby weight after nine years and hooking up with your son's baseball coaches on Facebook." (Coaches, plural.) » 5/29/14 1:20pm 5/29/14 1:20pm

The top court in Arkansas has ruled that due to multiple laws defining marriage as not recognised between same-sex couples, the previous ruling is "incomplete," and a ban on same-sex marriage is still in effect. Well. Halfsies. Maybe? Stop bothering us! » 5/14/14 9:05pm 5/14/14 9:05pm

In 12 Angry Men, a jury deliberates a death penalty case against a young boy. Only one juror votes "not guilty," while the rest lazily accept the prosecution's story. Because juries in criminal cases must be unanimous, the lone juror holds up the process and eventually convinces the rest of the jurors to spare the… » 4/28/14 4:47pm 4/28/14 4:47pm

Oh good; at least some law enforcement officials are coming to their senses about the world's stupidest law ever. » 3/31/14 9:50am 3/31/14 9:50am

But those aren't his words, you see. He's just paraphrasing other female lawyers and, um, Jane Curtin. » 3/25/14 7:15pm 3/25/14 7:15pm

Divorce can be hell. A relationship is ending, there's paperwork galore, and then you have to decide who gets what. And it gets exponentially harder if kids are involved. Well, someone's finally thinking of the children! Massachusetts State Senator Richard J. Ross has introduced a new bill that, if passed, will… » 3/22/14 5:00pm 3/22/14 5:00pm

Question to all the lady lawyers out there (sorry, I like the alliteration): How often do your superiors lecture you on your professional dress? Judging by all these tips we get about memos that lecture women on appropriate office wear, it's all the damn time. » 3/19/14 5:20pm 3/19/14 5:20pm

An obscenity case in Georgia that centered around unsolicited sext messages has been tossed out of court, because current state law does not cover electronic images. » 2/24/14 10:30pm 2/24/14 10:30pm

A federal judge in Virginia has struck down the state's gay-marriage ban. "Gay and lesbian individuals share the same capacity as heterosexual individuals to form, preserve and celebrate loving, intimate and lasting relationships," wrote U.S. District Judge Arenda L. Wright Allen in the decision. "Such relationships… » 2/13/14 11:20pm 2/13/14 11:20pm

The trailer for The Face of an Angel, an adaptation of the book by Barbie Latza Nardeau called Angel Face about the Amanda Knox saga, is out and it is as salacious and exploitative as any slapdash Lifetime movie about a recent murder trial except it features some pretty notable talent like Daniel Bruhl, Cara… » 2/09/14 4:00pm 2/09/14 4:00pm

According to Alabama state law, a woman has the right to breastfeed in public. But that didn't stop an official from booting a Mobile woman out of court for doing just that. » 2/04/14 11:30pm 2/04/14 11:30pm

The breakup of a small law firm in Texas has revealed some gross and amazing details and none of it is pretty. » 1/31/14 12:20pm 1/31/14 12:20pm

Just a few months after Saudi Arabia allowed women to serve in court, the first licensed woman attorney Bayan Mahmoud Al-Zahran has just opened the first female law firm, dedicated to representing women and bringing women's rights issues into the courts. YES.

Women have continually been neglected by the court… » 1/03/14 4:00pm 1/03/14 4:00pm