Sunday, May 27, 2012

Priscilla Owen and the Federalist Society

Priscilla Owen - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia:

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Priscilla Richman Owen (born October 4, 1954) is a federal judge on the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit. She was previously a Justice on the Texas Supreme Court.
"She joined the Andrews & Kurth law firm in Houston, as a litigator, specializing in oil and gas litigation. She made partner at the age of 30. In private practice, Owen handled a broad range of civil matters at the trial and appellate levels. She was admitted to practice before various state and federal trial courts and appellate courts. She is a member of the American Law Institute, the American Judicature Society, the American Bar Association, and a Fellow of the American and Houston Bar Foundations."
 

She worked part time during high school and college at her stepfather's insurance company. 

In the mid-1990s:
Owen also served on the boards of advisors of the Houston and Austin Chapters of theFederalist Society. 

The Federalist Society for Law and Public Policy Studies, most frequently called simply the Federalist Society, is an organization ofconservatives and libertarians seeking reform of the current American legal system[1] in accordance with a textualist and/or originalistinterpretation of the U.S. Constitution. 
(That sounds like they want to mess around with the constitutional rights of Americans, which has been done a LOT in the past ten years.)

In 2010, Judge Owen joined Emilio M. Garza and Edith Brown Clement in affirming the dismissal of the complaint in Doe v. Silsbee Independent School District.[8] The plaintiff ("H.S.") was a cheerleader who was ordered by her high school to cheer for her alleged rapist, a basketball player named Rakheem Bolton.[9] H.S. refused and was kicked off the team. She sued, claiming a violation of her First Amendment right to free speech. The Eastern District of Texas, JudgeThad Heartfield, granted the school district's motion to dismiss,[10] and Judges Clement, Garza, and Owen affirmed.[8] H.S. was ordered to pay the school $45,000 in legal fees for filing a "frivolous" lawsuit.[9]

Owen was instrumental in organizing a group known as Family Law 2000 that seeks to find ways to educate parents about the effect that divorce can have on their children and to lessen the adversarial nature of legal proceedings when a marriage is dissolved.

  1. ^     Kennedy Statement (2005-05-18 via archive.org).
  2. ^ Report from National Abortion Rights Action League.
  3. ^ Novak, Robert. Chicago Sun-Times, (2005-09-18)

Priscilla Owen


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    • Nominated to the United States Court of Appeals, 5th Circuit. Currently an Associate Justice on the Texas Supreme Court. On May 8, 2003, the Senate rejected (52-45) a second cloture motion on Owen's nomination. (Sixty votes are required to invoke cloture and end debate on the nomination.)
    • Has been criticized as being on the "far right wing" of the Texas court, further to the right than Bush's own appointees to that court when he was governor.
    • Supported the elimination and narrowing of buffer zones around reproductive health care clinics in Houston.
    • In every judicial bypass case that came before the Texas Supreme Court last spring (bypass allows a young woman to obtain an abortion without notifying her parents if she proves her maturity to a judge), Owen voted against granting the young woman a bypass.



    Owen seeks to write her on laws concerning a women's right to choose, which entails restricting it:

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