This Week in the Law Library ... March 24 2025

This week in the Law Library we're teaching Advanced Legal Research, spotlighting resources on the history of women and equality under the law, celebrating Irish American Heritage Month and Women's History Month, and previewing U.S. Supreme Court oral arguments.

Monday, March 24, 2025

Advanced Legal Research: Transactional
Instructional & Reference Services Librarian Laura Dixon-Caldwell
Room 135
9:00am – 9:55am

Advanced Legal Research: Ohio
Associate Director Susan Boland
Room 135
10:05am – 10:55am

Wednesday, March 26, 2025

Advanced Legal Research: Fiction and Fact
Research Instructional Services Librarian Shannon Kemen
Room 107
10:05am – 11:00am

Examples & Explanations: Employment Discrimination

Available via the Aspen Learning Library, we’re highlighting this text for Women’s History month because it deals with the issues that women face in the wo9rkplace. This text covers individual claims of intentional discrimination; systematic claims of intentional discrimination; non-intentional discrimination; special proof issues under Title VII; specific issues involving the five protected classifications; enforcement: procedures; enforcement: remedies; the reconstruction Civil Rights Acts, the Equal Pay Act ,the Age Discrimination in Employment Act; and discrimination on the basis of disability. Analysis is first provided for a topic and then examples are given to help students understand the analysis. A series of problems at the end of each section or chapter assist you in testing your understanding. Answers are provided for these problems.

Understanding Employment Discrimination

Available via the LexisNexis Digital Library, we’re highlighting this text for Women’s History month because it deals with the issues that women face in the wo9rkplace. This text covers the major sources of employment discrimination law, including the Constitution, the Civil Rights Acts, The equal Pay Act, and more. Although the scope and application of the Supreme Court’s recent watershed decisions remain to be worked out in the lower courts, this book’s discussion of these cases will provide the student and practitioner alike with a point-of-departure for following the development of the law in these areas.

Women and the Law Stories

Available via the West Academic Study Aid subscription, this book examines landmark cases establishing women’s legal rights, offering accounts of the litigants, history, parties, strategies, and theoretical implications. It utilizes subject areas common to many women and law casebooks: history, constitutional law, reproductive freedom, the workplace, the family, and women in the legal profession. Several chapters explore issues of domestic violence and rape.

Gender and Law

This guide provides a quick overview of general and law materials. It covers browsing for materials by call number range, using encyclopedias for background research and how to locate articles, textbooks, treatises, statutory law, administrative materials, agency publications, legislative histories and websites of interest. The guide can be used by students, faculty members, lawyers, and the general public.

On Account of Sex: Ruth Bader Ginsberg and the Making of Gender Equality Law

Available at Law Stacks  KF4758 .S775 2022.

Before she became the “Notorious R.B.G.” famous for her passionate dissents while serving as an associate justice of the United States Supreme Court, Ruth Bader Ginsburg made her most significant contributions as a lawyer who litigated cases on gender equality before the high court in the 1970s. Beginning with Reed v. Reed (1971)—for which Ginsburg wrote her first full Supreme Court brief, and which was the first time the Court held a sex-based classification to be unconstitutional—Ginsburg became known for her work on the issue of gender equality. For Ginsburg, this was not merely a matter of women’s rights; several of the cases she argued concerned gender equality for men, beginning with Moritz v. Commissioner of Internal Review (1972). Ginsburg established the Women’s Rights Project at the ACLU in 1972 and coedited the first law school casebook on sex discrimination as a professor at Columbia Law School. During the rest of the decade, until President Carter appointed her for the US Court of Appeals in 1980, she litigated cases that further developed gender equality jurisprudence on the basis of the Equal Protection Clause and Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964.

HeinOnline’s Women & Law

Available on HeinOnline, Women and the Law (Peggy) is a collection that brings together books, biographies, and periodicals dedicated to the role of women in society and the law. It provides a convenient platform for users to research the progression of women’s roles and rights in society over the past 200 years.

Women’s Legal History

The website is the home of a searchable database of articles and papers on pioneering women lawyers in the United States. Also located here are the Indexes and Bibliographic Notes for Barbara Babcock, “Woman Lawyer: The Trials of Clara Foltz.” (Stanford University Press, 2011).

Litigating Equality: Ruth Bader Ginsberg's Fight to Expand Civil Liberties

Throughout her career, RBG was determined to fulfill what she believed was America’s unfinished promise: expanding the opening words of the Constitution— “We the People”—to include an ever-growing group. She was inspired to become a lawyer amid the 1950s McCarthyite threat to civil liberties, and the legal strategy she pioneered with the ACLU Women's Rights Project was an explicit attempt to build a legal landscape of equality between the sexes. Join Brenda Feigen, RBG’s co-founder and director of the ACLU’s Women’s Rights Project, as she discusses the legacies of their work in conversation with legal scholar Nadine Strossen, former president of the ACLU, moderated by Irin Carmon, author of Notorious RBG: The Life and Times of Ruth Bader Ginsburg.  

Irish American Heritage Month is in March to coincide with Saint Patrick's Day. The first celebration dates back to the first St. Patrick's Day parade in New York City. Congress designated March as Irish-American Heritage Month in 1991 via Public Law 101-418 and President George H.W. Bush issued the first Presidential Proclamation celebrating the month. Subsequent congresses have passed laws designating March as Irish-American Heritage Month and presidents have continued to issue annual proclamations.

White House 2025 Proclamation

Learn More about Irish Americans

Census Bureau, Where Irish Eyes Are Smiling

This interactive map allows uou to see Irish ancestry as a percentage of each county's population.

Library of Congress, Irish Immigration and Relocation

From 1820-1860, the Irish were over 1/3 of all immigrants to the United States. Irish immigrants sometimes faced hostility from other groups in the U.S., and were accused of spreading disease and blamed for the unsanitary conditions many lived in.  

NYU Tamiment Library, Archives of Irish America

Established in 1997 as part of New York University's Division of Libraries and with the support of Glucksman Ireland House, the Archives of Irish America is a repository of primary research materials that assists students, faculty and visiting scholars in evaluating the Irish impact on the history of American social and cultural development, and the evolution over time of a distinctive Irish-American identity.

Smithsonian, Irish American History and Heritage

Explore collection items related to Ireland and Irish American history and heritage.

This month is Women’s History Month and the Law Library will be celebrating all month with our display, candy, and blog postings. Women’s History Month had its origins as a national celebration in 1981 when Congress passed Pub. L. 97-28 which authorized and requested the President to proclaim the week beginning March 7, 1982 as “Women’s History Week.” Throughout the next five years, Congress continued to pass joint resolutions designating a week in March as “Women’s History Week.” In 1987 after being petitioned by the National Women’s History Project, Congress passed Pub. L. 100-9 which designated the month of March 1987 as “Women’s History Month.” Between 1988 and 1994, Congress passed additional resolutions requesting and authorizing the President to proclaim March of each year as Women’s History Month. Since 1995, Presidents have issued a series of annual proclamations designating the month of March as “Women’s History Month.”

2025 Women's History Month Proclamation

The 2025 Women's History Month theme is “Moving Forward Together! Women Educating & Inspiring Generations.” According to the National Women’s History Alliance, "the 2025 theme celebrates the powerful influence of women who have dedicated their lives to education, mentorship, and leadership."

UC Events Celebrating Women’s History Month  

As of March 3, 2025, UC has unpublished and scrubbed its website of most pages mentioning women's history month. You can view previous versions of UC websites celebrating Women's History Month through the Wayback Machine.

UCBA Women's History Month Display

Throughout the year, the UC Blue Ash Library exhibits a variety of library displays focused on different themes and events using books and media available in the UCBA Library. This year's Women's History Month selections highlight the 2025 theme for Women's History Month - "Moving Forward Together! Women Educating & Inspiring Generations." Looking for something not listed? Talk to a librarian to get help finding the books you need.

UC Clermont's Frederick A. Marcotte Library Women's History Month Digital Display

UC Clermont Library curates monthly physical library material displays that pertain to timely issues. For these physical displays we lay out books, DVDs, and periodicals relating to a particular topic. We have created this digital display so that you can explore what is on our physical display shelves as well as request materials from each display.

Tuesday, Mar. 25, 2025

Give Her Flowers

11:00am - 1:00pm
UCBA 119 Lobby Muntz Hall
Make a bouquet for a woman that has positively impacted your UC experience in celebration of WHM. All materials will be provided.

Lunch & Lobby: Preserving Queer Women's History

12:00pm - 1:00pm
739 Steger Student Life Center
Celebrate Women's History Month with our local Ohio Lesbian Archives founder and volunteers. Come enjoy free lunch and learn more how OLA has been collecting materials by and about Lesbians and Greater Cincinnati LGBTQ+ communities for more than three decades. They are open by appointment for students, researchers, or anyone curious about their collections. Lunch & Lobby events are designed to connect students with leaders doing intersectional gender justice work at UC, in Cincinnati, and across the region in order to grow students’ networks, connect to opportunities, highlight possible career paths, and ignite passions.

Feminist Discussion

4:00pm - 5:00pm
Steger Women's Center Lounge (on the 8th floor)
Join the UC Women's Center and UC Feminists to hear about Dr. Lisa Hogeland's research and personal history with activism and advocacy.

In previous weeks we have focused on women in the legal profession and media resources on women’s history. This week we will focus on research databases that are useful for learning more about women’s history.

Gerritsen Collection

The Gerritsen Collection is an international digital library that spans four centuries and documents the lives and experiences of women in public and private arenas. The database contains 265 periodicals and 4¸471 monographs published from 1543-1945 in fifteen different languages.

GenderWatch

Gender Watch is a full-text collection of journals¸ magazines¸ newsletters¸ regional publications¸ books¸ booklets and pamphlets¸ conference proceedings and governmental n-g-o and special reports devoted to women’s and gender issues. Contains materials dating back to the 1970’s. Incorporated the publication Women “R.

HeinOnline’s Women & Law

Women and the Law (Peggy) is a collection that brings together books, biographies, and periodicals dedicated to the role of women in society and the law. It provides a convenient platform for users to research the progression of women’s roles and rights in society over the past 200 years.

Women’s Studies International

Women’s Studies International covers the core disciplines in Women’s Studies to the latest scholarship in feminist research. Nearly 800 essential sources include: journals, newspapers, newsletters, bulletins, books, book chapters, proceedings, reports, theses, dissertations, NGO studies, Web sites & Web documents, and grey literature. Women’s Studies International supports curriculum development in the areas of sociology, history, political science & economy, public policy, international relations, arts & humanities, business and education. Coverage: 1972 – present

Women and Social Movements, International

Women and Social Movements, International is a landmark collection of primary materials. Through the writings of women activists, their personal letters and diaries, proceedings of conferences at which pivotal decisions were made, reports of international women’s organizations, and publications and web pages of women’s non-governmental organizations, and letters, diaries, and memoirs of women active internationally since the mid-nineteenth century, this collection lets you see how women’s social movements shaped much of the events and attitudes that have defined modern life. Supported by the Charles Phelps Taft Research Center. Coverage: 1840-present

Our display for Women's History Month features resources on women and the legal fight for equal rights.

US Supreme Court by Jarek Tuszyński CC-BY-SA-3.0 via Wikimedia Commons

From SCOTUS Blog:

Monday, March 24, 2025

Louisiana v. Callais - (1) whether the majority of the three-judge district court in this case erred in finding that race predominated in the Louisiana legislature’s enactment of S.B. 8; (2) whether the majority erred in finding that S.B. 8 fails strict scrutiny; (3) whether the majority erred in subjecting S.B. 8 to the preconditions specified in Thornburg v. Gingles; and (4) whether this action is non-justiciable.

Riley v. Bondi - (1) whether 8 U.S.C. § 1252(b)(1)'s 30-day deadline is jurisdictional, or merely a mandatory claims-processing rule that can be waived or forfeited; and (2) whether a person can obtain review of the Board of Immigration Appeals' decision in a withholding-only proceeding by filing a petition within 30 days of that decision.

Tuesday, March 25, 2025

Env't Protection Agency v. Calumet Shreveport Refin. - whether venue for challenges by small oil refineries seeking exemptions from the requirements of the Clean Air Act’s Renewable Fuel Standard program lies exclusively in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit because the agency’s denial actions are “nationally applicable” or, alternatively, are “based on a determination of nationwide scope or effect.”

Oklahoma v. Env't Protection Agency - whether a final action by the Environmental Protection Agency taken pursuant to its Clean Air Act authority with respect to a single state or region may be challenged only in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit because the agency published the action in the same Federal Register notice as actions affecting other states or regions and claimed to use a consistent analysis for all states.

Wednesday, March 26, 2025

Fed. Comm'cn Comm'n v. Consumers’ Rsch. - (1) whether Congress violated the nondelegation doctrine by authorizing the Federal Communications Commission to determine, within the limits set forth in 47 U.S.C. § 254, the amount that providers must contribute to the Universal Service Fund; (2) whether the FCC violated the nondelegation doctrine by using the financial projections of the private company appointed as the fund's administrator in computing universal service contribution rates; (3) whether the combination of Congress’s conferral of authority on the FCC and the FCC’s delegation of administrative responsibilities to the administrator violates the nondelegation doctrine; and (4) whether this case is moot in light of the challengers' failure to seek preliminary relief before the 5th Circuit.  

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