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Jessica Pieklo

About Jessica Pieklo

Jessica Pieklo is a lawyer and law professor who focuses on constitutional and gender issues.  Prior to a career teaching and writing she was a litigator where her specialties included corporate accountability and health law. She is the founder of the blog Hegemommy and a blogger at  Care2.com.  Raised by liberals in conservative Nebraska, Jessica was taught to speak her mind and question authority practically out of the womb. She now lives in Minneapolis with her husband and their two children where her time is spent writing, teaching, and chasing after them. In those rare free moments she likes to tend to her garden, support local and sustainable agriculture, practice yoga and work on all things good-governance related.

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Wal-Mart v. Dukes, Equal Pay and the Long Road Ahead

Wal-Mart v. Dukes, Equal Pay and the Long Road Ahead

By on September 27, 2012

The Wal-Mart v. Dukes case carries on in a different form as a federal district court denied a motion to dismiss a class action suit of California women alleging pay and employment discrimination. The named plaintiffs represent more than 100,000 current or former women employees of California Wal-Mart and Sam’s Club stores. The class includes [...]

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Health Care Reform At SCOTUS: The Beginning Of The End Of Civil Rights Reform?

By on November 15, 2011

So here it is. This term the Supreme Court will decide the fate of the Affordable Care Act, a fact that given the fight for passage and then fight in the courts, is not that surprising. So far the bulk of the focus has revolved around the individual mandate, perhaps the least popular provision of [...]

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Disenfranchisement Is A Two-Step Process

By on October 25, 2011

If there has been a consistent, non-partisan critique of the Occupy Wall Street movement it has been that it lacks clear and common vision. That’s fine. So Occupy Wall Street doesn’t fit on a bumper sticker. But it doesn’t take a lot to see that the underlying movement circles around the problem of economic disenfranchisement. [...]

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The Accidental Ritual

By on October 7, 2011

Yesterday I made tomato soup from scratch. The fact that I made soup is unremarkable because I make soup all the time, and being that it is September and tomatoes are in full swing, me making tomato soup should be no big deal. But without even realizing it, yesterday it became ritual. See, my grandmother [...]

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