Jane Roe

Jane Roe

The name given to a female whose real name is not known or cannot be revealed, as in legal proceedings. Have they reached a decision in the Jane Roe case yet?
See also: Jane, roe
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.
See also:
  • roe
  • what’s his name
  • what's his/her/their name
  • whatshername
  • whatshisname
  • go by
  • go-by
  • give (one's) name to (something)
  • give your name to
  • put a name to (someone or something)
References in periodicals archive
He, Worden and the Centra Villa property manager then went to the Zone 4 police department and filed a police report against Jane Doe and Jane Roe for identity theft.
THIEVES AS RENTERS: Spotting a Fake ID
In her biography The Story of Norma McCorvey--The Woman Who Became Jane Roe, she recalled her previous notion on the subject: "Abortion, to me, meant 'going back' to the condition of not being pregnant." She believed, and was told, that the baby growing inside of her was "just a piece of tissue." This belief changed with McCorvey's conversion to Christianity.
Roe v. Wade. Legacy of Lies
The pseudonymous Jane Roe, the only plaintiff found to have standing, was described by the Court as an unmarried, pregnant woman who wished to have an abortion but was unable to do so under Texas law, because her life was not threatened by the pregnancy and she could not afford to travel to a state with more liberal criminal abortion laws.
A radically immodest judicial modesty: the end of facial challenges to abortion regulations and the future of the health exception in the Roberts era
Last year, APHA signed onto a friend-of-the-court brief in the case of Jane Roe v.
APHA contributes to prison health ruling
Wade, 1973's landmark abortion case, brought "Jane Roe" out of the woodworks.
TRAIL MIX: Introducing a New Feature -- Your Morning Review of Election Campaign Blogs
Those boldface dates are preceded by less prominent but nonetheless decisive times: 1516, when a Dominican named Johann Tetzel led the sale of indulgences that deeply angered Luther; and 1970, when a young Texas woman named Norma McCorvey (Jane Roe) filed suit to obtain an abortion.
2007 was a quiet harbinger of change on religious scene
Jane Roe was an unmarried pregnant woman, seeking to terminate an undesired pregnancy.
Becoming Justice Blackmun: Harry Blackmun's Supreme Court Journey
Some are famous, like Norma Mc-Corvey, aka Jane Roe, the woman pseudonymously named in the key 1973 Supreme Court decision that made abortion legal in the U.S.
Lake of Fire
In Roe, for example, it might have looked for fact-specific grounds to strike down the Texas abortion statute that Jane Roe had challenged without going so far as to create a constitutional right to abortion.
Judging the judges: liberals need a new constitutional vision to guide their decisions. Cass Sunstein may have it
The 1973 US Supreme Court case involving Norma McCorvey -known as Jane Roe for the purposes of the case -resulted in the decision that abortion was permissible under the American constitution.
Abortion champion wants U-turn
Jane Roe was interviewed in person at her residence, 123 Main Street, Anytown, USA, on December 31, 2003.
Rules for the written record: fraud reports are quite different from audit reports
Norma McCorvey, who sued under the pseudonym of Jane Roe, changed her
Roe and the new frontier
"It goes all the way back to Jane Roe," says Matthea Marquart, 27, the president of NOW-NYC.
Roe in rough waters: thirty years later, abortion's political terrain is more complicated than ever
Norma McCorvey ("Jane Roe") and Sandra Cano ("Mary Doe") filed their briefs in the case of Donna Santa Marie et al.
ROE V. WADE CHALLENGED
Jane Roe, of the Abortion Law Reform Society, said: "Tragically this has ended exactly how we feared it would.
BABY WAS 'ABDUCTED' 12-year-old's tot is put up for adoption against her wishes