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NY Court of Appeals expands rights for same-sex parents
Under a new ruling by New York’s highest court this week, same-sex parents are guaranteed consideration for custody or visitation in the event of divorce or death. Previously, the non-biological partner had these rights, but only if that parent legally adopted the shared child. But the court limited its rulings, and declined to resolve two […]
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Potential Supreme Court nominee target of gay ‘whisper’ campaign
Leading gay rights group are accusing Republicans of trying to rile up their conservative base by launching a whisper campaign against potential Supreme Court Justice Elena Kagan — suggesting the current Solicitor General is a closeted lesbian, reports the Huffington Post. In its first entree into the upcoming Supreme Court nomination process, the Human Rights […]
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Father of dead U.S. Marine ordered to pay organizers of anti-gay protest
The father of a U.S. Marine killed in Iraq has been ordered to pay $16,510 to a family that protested his son’s funeral in Maryland. Albert Snyder sued members of the Westboro Baptist Church because they waved signs saying “God hates the USA,” “Matt is in Hell” and others bearing anti-gay slurs at the 2006 […]
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Gay marriage advocates to appeal judge’s order to release campaign documents
Gay marriage advocates plan to file an emergency appeal of a federal judge’s order requiring them to release documents from the political campaign against Proposition 8 as part of the ongoing legal challenge to California’s ban on gay unions. From the Mercury-News: In court papers filed Tuesday, the American Civil Liberties Union asked Chief U.S. […]
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Judge rules lesbian teen’s rights violated, but fails to reinstate prom
School officials in Mississippi violated a lesbian student’s constitutional rights by banning her from dressing in a tuxedo and taking her girlfriend to the school prom, a federal judge ruled on Tuesday. But the judge stopped short of forcing Itawamba Agricultural High School to reinstate the April 2 prom, which it canceled two weeks ago […]
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Lambda Legal, NJ gay couples back in court over right to marry
Gay couples who sued New Jersey in 2002 for the right to marry are taking their case back to the State Supreme Court. Lambda Legal filed a motion Thursday on behalf of six couples and the surviving partner from a seventh, claiming the state continues to discriminate against them even though it offers civil unions […]
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NJ gay marriage advocates taking their case back to state supreme court
New Jersey gays rights advocates, with the help of New York-based Lambda Legal, are going back to the New Jersey Supreme Court in order to fight for the right to marry in the Garden State. Lambda Legal and Garden State Equality have scheduled a new conference for Thursday morning in Trenton to announce their action. […]
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Internet gay bashing not protected by free speech, court rules
Students at a private school in Los Angeles who posted internet death threats and anti-gay messages on a classmate’s webpage, can’t claim the constitutional protection of free speech, a California appeals court has ruled. The parents of the boy targeted by the threatening and derogatory posts on his website, withdrew him from Harvard-Westlake School in […]
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Judge to schedule closing arguments as Prop 8 trial attorneys file final briefs
Yesterday marked the deadline for final briefs to be submitted in the federal trial over California’s ban on same-sex marriage. The two sides in the case — two same-sex couples as plaintiffs, and the sponsors of California’s Proposition 8 as defendants — filed their final briefs late Friday shortly before a midnight deadline. Chief U.S. […]
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Judge rejects gay marriage opponents — refuses to ‘usurp’ DC elections board
Another Superior Court judge has denied a request by gay marriage opponents to overturn a D.C. Board of Elections rulings against a referendum on the issue. Earlier Friday, attorneys for Stand4MarriageDC and the Alliance Defense Fund, a conservative legal organization, went to court seeking a preliminary injunction, which would have stayed the effective date of […]