In re Matter of Adoption of X.X.G. and N.R.G. [Docket
No. 3D08-3044]
Brief Filed: 6/09
Court: District Court of Appeal, Third District, State of Florida
Year of Decision: Pending
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Wright v. Pennsylvania [Docket No. 21 EAP 2008]
Brief Filed: 11/08
Court: Pennsylvania Supreme Court
Year of Decision: Pending
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Varnum v. Brien, 763 N.W.2d 862
Brief Filed: 5/08
Court: Iowa Supreme Court
Year of Decision: 2009
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Greenberg v. National Geographic Ent., 533 F.3d 1244
Brief Filed: 10/07
Court: US Court of Appeals for the 11th Circuit
Year of Decision: 2008
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Brief
In re Marriage Cases, 43 Cal.4th 757
Brief filed: 9/07
Court: California Supreme Court
Year of Decision: 2008
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Panetti v. Quarterman, 127 S.CT. 2842 (2007)
Brief Filed: 02/07
Court: United States Supreme Court
Year of Decision: 2007
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Kerrigan v. Commissioner of Public Health, 289 Conn. 135
Brief Filed: 01/07
Court: Connecticut Supreme Court
Year of Decision: 2008
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Bodell v. Superior Court, (unpublished)
Letter of Support of Cert filed: 1/07
Court: Court of Appeals for the State of California, 2nd Appellate District
Year of Decision: 2007
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Review
In re. R.A. & M.A., 2007 ME 123
Brief Filed: 10/06
Court: Maine Supreme Judicial Court
Year of Decision: 2007
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Conaway v. Deane, 401 Md. 219
Brief Filed: 10/06
Court: Maryland Court of Appeals
Year of Decision: 2007
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Parents v. Seattle School District and Meredith v. Jefferson Co. Board of
Education, 126 S.Ct 2738 (2007)
Brief Filed: 10/06
Court: United States Supreme Court
Year of Decision: 2007
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Clark v. Arizona, 548 US 735 (2006)
Brief Filed: 1/06
Court: United States Supreme Court
Year of Decision: 2006
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Department of Human Services v. Howard, 367 Ark. 55
Brief Filed: 12/05
Court: Arkansas Supreme Court
Year of Decision: 2006
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Citizens for Equal Protection v. Bruning, 455 F.3d 859 (8th Cir. 2006)
Brief Filed: 11/05
Court: U.S. Court of Appeals, 8th Circuit
Year of Decision: 2006
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Hernandez v. Robles, 794 N.Y.S.2d 579
Brief filed: 8/05
Court: New York, Appellate Division, First Department
Year of Decision: 2005
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Goodman v. Georgia, 546 US 152
Brief filed: 7/05
Court: Supreme Court of the United States
Year of Decision: 2006
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Shields v. Madigan, 820 N.Y.S.2d 890
Brief filed: 7/05
Court: New York Appellate Division: Second Department
Year of Decision: 2006
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Samuels v. New York State Department of Health, 811 NYS 2d 136
Brief filed: 5/05
Court: New York Appellate Division: Third Department
Year of Decision: 2006
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U.S. v. Fields, 483 F.3d 313
Brief filed: 4/05
Court: US Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
Year of Decision: 2007
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Andersen v. King County, 158 Wn.2d 1
Brief filed: 2/05
Court: Supreme Court of the State of Washington
Year of Decision: 2006
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Li v. Oregon [95 P.3d 730]
Brief filed: 10/04
Court: Supreme Court of the State of Oregon
Year of Decision: 2005
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Lewis v. Harris, 378 N.J. Super 168
Brief filed: 10/04
Court: Superior Court of New Jersey, Appellate Division
Year of Decision: 2005
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Ewing v.Goldstein [120 Cal.App.4th 807]
Letter in Support of Petition for Review filed: 9/04
Court: California Supreme Court
Year of Decision: 2004
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Roper v. Simmons, 125 S.Ct. 1183
Brief filed: 7/04
Court: Supreme Court of the United States
Year of Decision: 2005
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Faulkner v. National Geographic Enterprises, Inc., 409 F.3d. 26
Brief filed: 6/04
Court: US Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
Year of Decision: 2005
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Comfort v. Lynn, 418 F.3d 1
Brief filed: 6/04
Court: US Court of Appeals for the First Circuit
Year of Decision: 2005
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Grutter v. Bollinger, 539 U.S. 306 and Gratz v. Bollinger, 539 U.S. 244
Brief filed: 2/03
Court: Supreme Court of the United States
Year of Decision: 2003
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Stogner v. California, 539 U.S. 607
Brief filed: 2/03
Court: Supreme Court of the United States
Year of Decision: 2003
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Lawrence v. Texas, 539 U.S. 558
Brief filed: 1/03
Court: Supreme Court of the United States
Year of Decision: 2003
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Sell v. U.S., 539 U.S. 166
Brief filed: 12/02
Court: Supreme Court of the United States
Year of Decision: 2003
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Boy Scouts of America, National Capital Area Council v. Pool 809 A.2d 1192
Brief filed: 2/02
Court: DC Court of Appeals
Year of Decision: 2002
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Brief Table of Contents
Atkins v. Virginia 536 U.S. 304
Brief filed: 11/01
Court: Supreme Court of the United States
Year of Decision: 2002
Jegley v. Picado 80 S.W.3d 332
Brief filed: 10/01
Court: Arkansas Supreme Court
Year of Decision: 2002
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In re. Adoption of Luke, 640 N.W.2d 374
Brief Filed: 9/01
Court: Nebraska Supreme Court
Year of Decision: 2002
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US v. Gomes, 289 F.3d 71
Brief Filed:9/01
Court: US Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
Year of Decision: 2002
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McCarver v. North Carolina, 533 U.S. 975
Brief Filed: 6/01
Court: Supreme Court of the United States
Year of Decision: 2001
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Levy v. Edelhofer (no published decision)
Brief Filed: 11/00 & 12/00
Court: State of California Court of Appeal, Fourth District, Div. Two
Year of Decision: 2001
Boy Scouts of America v. Dale, 530 U.S. 640
Brief Filed: 3/00
Court: Supreme Court of the United States
Year of Decision: 2000
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Williamson v. Liptzin, 539 S.E. 2d 313
Brief Filed: 2/00
Court: North Carolina Court of Appeals
Year of Decision: 2000
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Ford v. Norton, 107 Cal. Rptr. 2d 776
Brief Filed: 1/00
Court: Court of Appeals of the State of California
Year of Decision: 2001
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Hudgins v. Moore (1999):
[Supreme Court of South Carolina/briefs filed 2/98 and 2/99] -- Whether the prosecution could use raw MMPI-A test materials,
administered to determine the defendant's competency to stand trial, to argue at trial that the defendant admitted to being a
liar
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Olmstead v. L.C. (1999):
[U.S. Supreme Court/brief filed 3/99] -- Whether the Americans With Disabilities Act compels a state to provide treatment for
mentally disabled patients in a community placement rather than a state mental institution when that is an appropriate
treatment option
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Boswell v. Boswell (1998):
[Maryland Court of Appeals/brief filed 7/98] -- Whether a gay father may be denied overnight visitation with his children and
visitations in the presence of his male partner
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Delong v. Delong (1998):
[Missouri Supreme Court/brief filed 6/98] -- Whether a lesbian mother may be denied custody solely on the basis of her sexual
orientation rather than on the basis of what is in the best interests of the child.
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Emerich v. Philadelphia Center for Human Development, Inc. (1998):
[Pennsylvania Supreme Court/brief filed 10/96] -- Whether a mental health professional has a duty to warn a third party of a
patient's threats to harm the third party and the scope of any such duty
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Huntoon v. TCI Cablevision of Colorado (1998):
[US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit/brief filed 7/97 & Colorado Supreme Court/brief filed 2/98] -- Whether a
neuropsychologist is qualified to testify as to the causation of a head injury
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People v. Gil (1998):
[New York Supreme Court, Appellate Division/brief filed 7/97] -- Whether cognitive research evidence and expert testimony
regarding laypersons' beliefs concerning physics was admissible in a murder trial
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Landers v. Chrysler Corporation (1997):
[Missouri Court of Appeals/brief filed 8/97] -- Whether a neuropsychologist is qualified to testify as to the causation of a
head injury
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Schudel v. General Electric (1997):
[U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit/brief filed 7/95] -- Whether neuropsychologists are competent to testify on
issues pertaining to causation of an "organic" mental condition
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Campbell v. Sundquist (1996):
[Tennessee Court of Appeals/brief filed 10/95] -- Whether a Tennessee "Homosexual Acts" statute prohibiting private sexual
activity between consenting adults of the same sex violates the Tennessee Constitution's right to privacy
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Jaffee v. Redmond (1996):
[U.S. Supreme Court/brief filed 1/96] -- Whether a psychotherapist-patient privilege was recognized under Rule 501 of the
Federal Rules of Evidence. The US Supreme Court granted certiorari to review a decision of the Seventh Circuit that
recognized the existence of a psychotherapist-patient privilege and held that confidential communications of a police officer
with a licensed social worker were protected from compelled disclosure
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Romer v. Evans (1996):
[U.S. Supreme Court/brief filed 6/95] -- Whether an enacted state constitutional amendment prohibiting the State and all
local governmental entities from enacting, adopting or enforcing any law or policy protecting lesbians, gay men and bisexuals
from discrimination violates the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment because it burdens the fundamental right
of lesbians, gay men and bisexuals to seek such legal protections.
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Bottoms v. Bottoms (1995):
[Virginia Court of Appeals/brief filed 11/93 & Virginia Supreme Court/brief filed 12/94] -- Whether a lesbian biological
mother could be denied custody of her child on the grounds that her sexual orientation rendered her unfit as a parent
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Equality Foundation of Greater Cincinnati, Inc. v. City of Cincinnati (1995):
[U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit/brief filed 12/94] -- Whether an anti-gay rights ballot initiative was
constitutional
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Hertzler v. Hertzler (1995):
[Wyoming Supreme Court/brief filed 12/94] -- Whether the "best interests of the child" is served by restricting visitation
rights to a minimum level due to a mother's sexual orientation as a lesbian
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Progressive Animal Welfare Society (PAWS) v. University of Washington (1994):
[Washington Supreme Court/brief filed 7/93] -- Whether unfunded grant proposals submitted to a federal agency are protected
from disclosure by federal preemption and the researcher's First Amendment right of academic freedom
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Texas v. Morales (1994):
[Texas Court of Appeals/brief filed 1/92 and Texas Supreme Court/brief filed 12/92] -- Whether the equal protection and due
process components of the Texas Constitution prohibit criminalization of consensual homosexual sodomy among adults in
private
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Harris v. Forklift Systems, Inc. (1993):
[U.S. Supreme Court/brief filed 4/93] -- Whether a sexual harassment plaintiff must prove not only that the conduct
complained of would have offended a reasonable victim, and that the plaintiff was in fact offended, but also that the conduct
caused the plaintiff to suffer serious psychological injury
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National Kidney Patients Association v. Sullivan (1993):
[U.S. Supreme Court brief in support of a petition for certiorari/brief filed 12/92] -- Whether health care providers and
Medicare beneficiaries may seek judicial review of HCFA regulations without first completing lengthy administrative review
process by HCFA
Chandler Exterminators, Inc. v. Morris (1992):
[Georgia Court of Appeals/brief filed 12/90 & Georgia Supreme Court/brief in support of petition for reconsideration filed
6/92] -- Whether the lower court erred in rejecting the testimony of a neuropsychologist concerning the causes of brain
damage as a result of exposure to the neurotoxic substance Aldrin and ruling that psychologists are not competent to testify
as to the organic causes of psychological dysfunction by stating "Medical causation is not a subject within the scope of
psychological expertise."
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Kentucky v. Wasson (1992):
[Kentucky Supreme Court/brief filed 8/91] -- Whether Kentucky sodomy laws are constitutional under the Kentucky
Constitution
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Menendez v. State of California (1992):
[California Supreme Court/brief filed 10/91] -- Whether patient-therapist communications lose their privileged status once a
patient threatens others in a manner such that the therapist's Tarasoff duties are triggered and when a therapist-patient
relationship is terminated
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Planned Parenthood of S.E. Pennsylvania v. Casey (1992):
[U.S. Supreme Court/brief filed 3/92] -- Whether (1) the challenged provisions of Pennsylvania's abortion statute are
constitutional, and (2) the standard of review established under Roe v. Wade for regulations restricting abortion remained
the law of the land
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Soroka v. Dayton Hudson Corp, d.b.a. Target Stores (1992):
[California Supreme Court/APA filed 1/92 letter in support of cert. petition. Although review was granted, the case was
settled in 7/93 without an APA brief filed] -- Whether certain portions of the MMPI and the California Psychological
Inventory administered to job applicants (i.e., questions that facially and in isolation suggest they are related to
religious and sexual matters) violate the privacy provisions of the California Constitution and certain anti-discrimination
laws
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Brief
Miller v. City of Poughkeepsie (1991):
[New York Supreme Court, Appellate Division/brief filed 12/91] -- Whether the State of New York and the federal government
consider "medical treatment" to include services provided by a psychologist
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Bucy v. Bucy (1990):
[Connecticut Court of Appeals/brief filed 2/90] -- whether expenses incurred in psychotherapy for the treatment of eating
disorders are "medical expenses" within the meaning of a separation and support decree
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California Association of Psychology Providers v. Rank (1990):
[California Supreme Court/brief filed 6/88] -- Whether certain California regulations were inconsistent with legislation
defining the scope of psychologists' practice in hospitals and permitting psychologists to provide services as independent
pratitioners "without discrimination"
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Hodgson v. State of Minnesota (1988) & (1990):
[U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit/brief filed 3/87 & U.S. Supreme Court/brief filed 9/89] -- Whether a Minnesota
statute requiring physicians to notify the parents of all unemancipated minors under the age of 18 at least 48 hours before
performing an abortion was unconstitutional (companion case to Ohio v. Akron)
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Maryland v. Craig (1990):
[U.S. Supreme Court/brief filed 3/90] -- Whether certain procedural protections such as the use of one-way close circuit
television may be afforded to the victims of child abuse when testifying against the accused individual
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Ohio v. Akron Center for Reproductive Health, Inc. (and Hodgson v. State of Minnesota)
(1990):
[U.S. Supreme Court/brief filed 9/89] -- Whether an Ohio statute which prohibited a physician from performing an abortion
upon a minor unless notice was provided to one of the minor's parents
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Washington v. Harper (1990):
[U.S. Supreme Court/brief filed 6/89] -- Whether a prisoner in a correctional facility has the right to refuse the
administration of psychotropic drugs
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BenShalom v. Marsh (1989):
[U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit/brief filed 3/89] -- Whether the US Army may constitutionally deny
reenlistment to any serviceperson who declares him/herself to have a homosexual orientation
Patrick v. Burget (1989):
[U.S. Supreme Court/brief filed 11/87] -- Whether the conduct of hospital peer committees with the power to grant hospital
privileges were absolutely immune from antitrust liability under the state action doctrine
Price Waterhouse v. Hopkins (1989):
[U.S. Supreme Court/brief filed 6/88]-- Whether social psychological research and expert testimony regarding sex-role
stereotyping is sufficient to support a finding of sex-discrimination in a Title VII (mixed motivation) case
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Watkins v. United States Army (1989):
[U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit/brief filed 8/88] -- Whether US Army regulations requiring the discharge of
lesbians and gay men and barring them from reenlisting were unconstitutional
Webster v. Reproductive Health Services (1989):
[U.S. Supreme Court/brief filed 3/89] -- Whether a state statute that comprehensively regulated abortion was
unconstitutional
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Brief
Bowen v. Kendrick (1988):
[U.S. Supreme Court/APA joined a brief filed 2/88] -- Whether the 1981 Adolescent Family Life Act (AFLA) was constitutional,
including whether it violated the constitutional rights of individuals to make informed reproductive decisions free of
government coercion
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In re Bryant (1988):
[District of Columbia Court of Appeals/brief filed 6/87] -- Whether involuntarily committed mental patients have the right to
refuse anti-psychotic medication
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Hodgson v. State of Minnesota (1988) & (1990):
[U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit/brief filed 3/87 & U.S. Supreme Court/brief filed 9/89] -- Whether a Minnesota
statute requiring physicians to notify the parents of all unemancipated minors under the age of 18 at least 48 hours before
performing an abortion was unconstitutional (companion case to Ohio v. Akron)
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Martin v. Benson (1988):
[North Carolina Supreme Court/brief filed 4/97] -- Whether a neuropsychologist is competent to testify as to whether the
symptoms evidenced by a person are indications of a closed head injury
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Penry v. Lynaugh (1988):
[U.S. Supreme Court/brief filed 9/88] -- Whether mentally retarded individuals possess the moral culpability to be subjected
to the death penalty
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Riese v. St. Mary's Hospital & Medical Center (1988):
[California Supreme Court/brief filed 8/88] -- Whether civilly committed mental patients could refuse the administration of
antipsychotic medication absent a judicial determination of incompetence
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United States v. Charters (1988):
[U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit/brief filed 6/88] -- Whether a hospitalized patient has a federal
constitutional right to refuse antipsychotic drugs unless the patient has been found incompetent to make treatment decisions
or is imminently dangerous to self or others
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Watson v. Fort Worth Bank and Trust (1988):
[U.S. Supreme Court/brief filed 9/87) -- Whether the use of non-validated employment assessment tools violated Title VII of
the 1964 Civil Rights Act
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Brief
Currie v. United States (1987):
[U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit/brief filed 1/87] -- Whether a psychotherapist is liable under tort law for
failure to institute involuntary commitment proceedings
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Hartigan v. Zbaraz (1987):
[U.S. Supreme Court/brief filed 2/87] -- Whether the Illinois Parental Notice Abortion Act which required a physician to give
24-hour notice to both parents of a minor was unconstitutional
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Insurance Board v. Muir (1987):
[U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit/brief filed 8/86] -- Whether employee benefit plans issued by private employers
but administered by fiscal intermediaries are subject to ERISA or constitute the business of insurance, thus saving the state
benefits laws from preemption (the main issue for psychology was whether ERISA exempts insurance carriers from complying with
psychologists' freedom of choice laws and mandated mental-health benefit laws
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Kentucky v. Stincer (1987):
[U.S. Supreme Court/brief filed 1/87] -- Whether a defendant accused of sexually abusing a child has the right to be present
at a pretrial hearing at which a child is questioned to determine competence to testify at trial
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Bowers v. Hardwick (1986):
[U.S. Supreme Court/brief filed 1/86] -- Whether Georgia's sodomy law which outlawed private sexual conduct between
consenting adults was constitutional
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Colorado v. Connelly (1986):
[U.S. Supreme Court/brief filed 3/86] -- Whether an individual diagnosed as paranoid schizophrenic acting in response to
"command hallucinations" is competent to waive Miranda rights and his subsequent confession is voluntary and admissible
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Estate of Davis v. Yong-Oh Lhim (1986):
[Michigan Supreme Court/brief filed 7/86] -- Whether a psychotherapist is liable under tort law for the standard of care
concerning the discharge of patients from mental hospitals and not a therapist's duty to warn of potential danger
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Ford v. Wainwright (1986):
[U.S. Supreme Court/brief filed 1/86] -- Whether (1) it is unconstitutional to execute an incompetent person, and (2) the
procedural issue of whether Florida's statutory scheme for evaluating the competency of a condemned prisoner meets the
requirements of due process
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Horne v. Goodson Logging Co. (1986):
[North Carolina Court of Appeals/brief filed 8/86] -- Whether a neuropsychologist is competent and credible to testify as an
expert determining neurological disability for the purposes of awarding monetary compensation
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International Primate Protection League v. Institute for Behavioral Research (1986):
[U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit/APA joined 69 scientific organizations filing a joint amici curiae brief filed
1986 -- Whether animal rights organizations have standing to sue for custody of a laboratory under state anti-cruelty to
animals
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Lockhart v. McCree (1986):
[U.S. Supreme Court/brief filed 12/85] -- Whether the use of a death-qualified jury in a capital case is unconstitutional
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Rivers v. Katz (and Grassi v. Acrish) (1986):
[New York Court of Appeals/brief filed 2/86] -- Whether involuntarily committed mental patients, who have not been formally
adjudicated to be incompetent, can refuse antipsychotic medication
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Smith v. Murray (1986):
[U.S. Supreme Court/brief filed 12/85 under Smith v. Sielaff] -- Whether information the defendant provides to a mental
health professional for the purpose of diagnosis or assessment incident to preparing a defense to a charge of a capital
offense can be used against him by the State to establish an aggravating circumstance during the death penalty phase
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Stover v. State of Georgia (1986):
[Georgia Supreme Court/brief filed 11/86] -- Whether a state anti-sodomy law criminally prohibiting oral sex was
constitutional
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Thornburgh v. American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (1986):
[U.S. Supreme Court/brief filed 8/85] -- Whether a Pennsylvania state law that required physicians to inform women
contemplating an abortion of the detrimental physical and psychological effects was constitutional
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United States Dept. of Treasury, Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, & Firearms v. Galioto
(1986):
[U.S. Supreme Court/brief filed 2/86] -- Whether provisions of a federal crime statute which permanently prohibited any
individual adjudicated as suffering from a mental defective or committed to any mental institution from receiving,
transporting, or shipping a firearm or ammunition in interstate commerce or being sold a firearm was unconstitutional
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Ake v. Oklahoma (1985):
[U.S. Supreme Court/brief filed 6/84] -- Whether an indigent defendant has the constitutional right to the appointment of a
mental health professional at the State's expense to help the defendant prepare an insanity defense and rebut evidence of
future dangerousness
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City of Cleburne v. Cleburne Living Center, Inc. (1985):
[(U.S. Supreme Court/APA signed onto brief filed 1984] -- Whether zoning restrictions limiting the right of mentally retarded
persons to establish group homes was unconstitutional
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Hawthorne v. State of Florida (1985):
[Florida District Court of Appeals/brief filed 2/83] -- Whether expert testimony on battered women's syndrome is admissible
to help establish claims of self-defense in a murder case (Parallels the New Jersey v. Kelly case)
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Metropolitan Life Insurance Co. v. State of Massachusetts (and Travelers Insurance Co. v. State of
Massachusetts) (1985):
[U.S. Supreme Court/brief filed 1/85] -- Whether a state law requiring mandatory minimal mental health benefits under which
outpatient services could be provided by a licensed psychologist was preempted by the federal ERISA law
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Oregon v. Miller (1985):
[Oregon Supreme Court/brief filed 12/84] -- Whether psychotherapist-patient privilege extended to a receptionist and to
statements made to a psychiatrist that were not for the purpose of diagnosis or treatment
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Alaska v. R. H. Wetherhorn (1984):
[Alaska Court of Appeals/brief filed 10/83] -- Whether admissions of child abuse made during either voluntarily-obtained or
court-ordered therapy are admissible in a criminal trial or protected by the state's privileged communication statutes and
the right against self-incrimination under the state and/or federal constitution
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New Jersey v. Kelly (1984):
[New Jersey Supreme Court/brief filed 4/83] -- Whether expert testimony on battered women's syndrome is admissible to help
establish claims of self-defense in a murder case (Parallels case of Hawthorne v. Florida)
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New York v. Uplinger (1984):
[U.S. Supreme Court/brief filed 12/83] -- Whether a New York Loitering law that prohibited loitering for the purpose of
engaging in "deviate" sexual intercourse was unconstitutional
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United States v. Leatherman (1984):
[U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia/brief filed 11/83] (case dismissed when Leatherman escaped from hospital
in 2/84) -- Whether a prisoner found not guilty by reason of insanity and committed for treatment can refuse antipsychotic
medications
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United States v. Lyons (1984):
[U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth District/brief filed 11/83] -- Whether evidence of drug addiction should be admitted
when the defendant raises an insanity defense
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Akron v. Akron Center for Reproductive Health, Inc. (1983):
[U.S. Supreme Court/brief filed 8/82] -- Whether the City of Akron's adoption of an informed consent requirement for
abortions, which mandated that the individual providing pre-abortion counseling must be the woman's attending physician (as
opposed to other qualified professionals) and specified the kind and substance of the information to be presented, was
constitutional
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Brief
Forrest v. Ambach (1983):
[NY Supreme Court/briefs filed 9/80, 7/81 & NY Supreme Court, Appellate Division/brief filed 12/82] -- Whether the New York
Commissioner of Education acted in an arbitrary and capricious manner in not permitting a school psychologist to challenge
her employment termination for due disagreeing with the State Commissioner regarding the statutory requirements for services
to handicapped children
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Hedlund v. Superior Court of Orange County (1983):
[California Supreme Court/brief filed 10/83] -- Whether a "foreseeable" bystander in a close relationship to the victim of an
assault by a patient can bring a cause of action against the patient's psychotherapist for emotional injury resulting from a
failure to warn
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Metropolitan Edison Co. v. People Against Nuclear Energy (and United States Nuclear Regulatory
Commission v. People Against Nuclear Energy) (1983):
[U.S. Supreme Court/briefs filed 9/82 and 1/83] -- Whether there are situations in which an environmental impact statement
under the National Environmental Policy Act must consider the effects of a proposed action on psychological health
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Mills v. Rogers (1983):
[U.S. Supreme Court/brief filed 1/83 and Massachusetts Supreme Court/brief filed 9/81] -- Whether a patient institutionalized
in a state psychiatric facility has the right to refuse the administration of anti-psychotic medication
Blue Shield of Virginia v. McCready (1982):
[U.S. Supreme Court/brief filed 1/82] -- Whether an insured patient receiving psychotherapy has standing to sue for treble
damages under antitrust laws (i.e., the Clayton Act) when third party payors refuse to reimburse psychologists for mental
health services unless those services are billed by physicians
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United States v. Byers (1982):
[U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia/brief filed 10/81] -- Whether a prosecution-requested, court-ordered
clinical interview conducted in custodial confinement of a criminal defendant who was offering an insanity defense endangered
the privilege against self-incrimination protected by the Fifth Amendment and the right to assistance of counsel protected by
the Sixth Amendment
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Youngberg v. Romeo (1982):
[U.S. Supreme Court/brief filed 9/81) -- Whether mentally retarded residents of state hospitals have the constitutional right
to be free from undue bodily restraint, the right to personal security and protection, and the right to adequate treatment
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Harris v. McRae (1980):
[U.S. Supreme Court/APA signed onto a brief filed 7/80] -- Whether (1) a state participating in the Medicaid program were
required to pay for medically necessary abortions and (2) Whether the Hyde Amendment denying federal reimbursement for such
abortions was unconstitutional
Virginia Academy of Clinical Psychologists v. Blue Shield of Virginia (1980):
[U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit/brief filed 7/79] -- Whether a health insurance company's refusal to provide
direct payments to clinical psychologists for outpatient psychological services rendered to the company's subscribers unless
those services were ordered, supervised, and billed by a physician violated the Sherman Act and "Virginia's "freedom of
choice" legislation
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Detroit Edison Co. v. National Labor Relations Board (1979):
[U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit/brief filed 1976 & U.S. Supreme Court/brief filed 1977] -- Whether an order of
the National Labor Relations Board that required Detroit Edison to provide to a union with copies of an actual test battery
and employees' raw scores and test papers without their consent should be enforced in light of confidentiality and test
security concerns
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Hutchinson v. Proxmire (1979):
[U.S. Supreme Court/brief filed 2/79] -- Whether a research scientist is a "public figure" for the purposes of libel law if
he is supported by public funds, thereby rendering it difficult for a scientist to sue for libel
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Rone v. Fireman (1979):
[U.S. District Ct., Northern District, Eastern Div./brief filed 1//78] -- Whether the State had an obligation to treat
persons confined to state mental hospitals in the least restrictive setting
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Wyatt v. Aderholt (1973):
[U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit/brief filed 11/72] -- Whether (1) mentally impaired individuals who are
involuntarily confined in state institutions have the right to treatment and (2) confinement without treatment deprives such
individuals of their constitutional rights
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United States v. Brawner (1972):
[U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia/brief filed 5/71] - Whether in insanity defense cases (1) the medical
model should be abandoned, and (2) the results of psychological tests like the Rorschach should be admissible
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Jenkins v. United States (1962):
[U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia/brief filed 2/62] -- Whether a psychologist is competent to state
professional opinions as an expert witness concerning the nature, and existence or non-existence, of mental disease and
defect
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