What is a request for answers to interrogatories?
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What is a request for answers to interrogatories?
In law, interrogatories (also known as requests for further information) are a formal set of written questions propounded by one litigant and required to be answered by an adversary in order to clarify matters of fact and help to determine in advance what facts will be presented at any trial in the case.
What is the undue burden clause?
In the field of reproductive rights, having the purpose or effect of placing a substantial obstacle in the path of a woman seeking an abortion of a fetus that is not yet viable. Laws that impose an undue burden on a fundamental right are unconstitutional under current Supreme Court cases.
What is the substantial burden test?
A court may properly define a “substantial” burden by reference to these secular legal principles, by asking whether they would hold a RFRA claimant culpable or liable if its claim of complicity were raised in connection with criminal or civil liability.
Which US Supreme Court case adopted the undue burden standard for abortion case?
Planned Parenthood v. Casey
How has the Supreme Court interpreted the undue burden test?
To define an undue burden, the Court wrote in Casey: “An undue burden exists, and therefore a provision of law is invalid, if its purpose or effect is to place a substantial obstacle in the path of a woman seeking an abortion before the fetus attains viability.”
What is the test for strict scrutiny?
To pass strict scrutiny, the legislature must have passed the law to further a “compelling governmental interest,” and must have narrowly tailored the law to achieve that interest. Strict scrutiny is the highest standard of review which a court will use to evaluate the constitutionality of governmental discrimination.
What was the decision in Planned Parenthood v Casey?
In Casey v. Planned Parenthood (1992), the Supreme Court affirmed the basic ruling of Roe v. Wade that the state is prohibited from banning most abortions.
