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30 Apr 2010, 1:14 pm by Marc Poirier
Sec. 1862, the Congress had enacted a statute that provided: “All citizens of the United States shall have the same right in every State and Territory, as is enjoyed by white citizens thereof to inherit, purchase, lease, sell, hold and convey real and personal property, except that as to non-whites some other name shall be used instead of ‘property’; and for the interests of non-whites parallel to property, names… [read post]
15 May 2014, 10:00 am by Cynthia Marcotte Stamer
  It states that a cafeteria plan that does not contain written terms that allow changes of election upon change in legal marital status generally would need to be amended before a same-sex couple could be allowed to make an election change. [read post]
20 May 2014, 6:29 pm
The Supreme Court’s recent rejection of a federal interest in denying recognition to same-sex marriages for federal law purposes reveals the thinness of any claimed interest by states in territorial control. [read post]
1 Mar 2010, 3:44 pm by Tobias Thienel
But to hold that a man-to-woman transsexual must be allowed to enter into a marriage as a woman is not the same as holding that marriage must be possible even if both parties are of the same sex in every conceivable way. [read post]
13 May 2019, 6:00 am by Guest Blogger
  On the human rights front, Americans confronted and eliminated de jure racial discrimination in employment and academia between 1948 and 2019; the U.S. recognizes a federal constitutional right to same sex marriage unlike the European Court of Human Rights; the Supreme Courts of India, Japan, Indonesia, and South Korea in a world where Russia, China, and all Islamic countries persecute LGBTQ people. [read post]
22 May 2012, 10:48 am by Gregory Forman
This provision doesn’t allow same sex marriages to be performed in this state. [read post]
29 Aug 2016, 9:01 pm by Joanna L. Grossman
Beginning in the 1970s, states realized that it was terribly unfair to allow title—legal ownership of property—to dictate who ended up with what when the marriage ended. [read post]
20 Jul 2011, 9:00 am by Lucas A. Ferrara, Esq.
The lottery will guarantee access to one of the City Clerk's five offices for 764 couples - opposite sex or same sex - on July 24th. [read post]
4 May 2012, 12:15 pm by Bradley Coxe
Section 51-1 forbids homosexual marriage, however it does not limit the State’s ability to grant a more limited set of rights and protections to same sex or opposite sex unmarried couples living here. [read post]
16 Nov 2023, 8:47 am by Rio Matsumoto
These riders include restrictions on gender-affirming care, allowances for discrimination against same-sex couples, prohibitions of drag performances, banning of pride flag displays, and restrictions on diversity and inclusion programs. [read post]
22 Dec 2016, 4:21 pm by Jon
Common law crimes established in the territory ofwhat would become the United States as of 1787.b. [read post]
1 Jun 2016, 6:40 am by Nicole Reustle
The Court found that the due process and equal protection clauses of the 14th Amendment require all states and U.S. territories to license same-sex marriages and recognize those performed in other states.V.L. v. [read post]
31 Jan 2013, 6:00 am by Yosie Saint-Cyr
A civil union allows a couple (each partner must be at least 18 years old), consisting of spouses of the opposite or same sex, to publicly commit by contract, in front of a priest or pastor or notary, to a life together. [read post]
18 Feb 2019, 7:50 am by David E. Bernstein
Various law schools refused to allow military recruiters to recruit their law students on the same terms as other employers. [read post]
9 Mar 2015, 3:45 am by Amy Howe
” Other coverage focuses on the friend-of-the-Court briefs filed in the challenge to state bans on same-sex marriage, which is scheduled for oral argument on April 28. [read post]
15 Jul 2022, 6:30 am by Mark Graber
  Consider possible differences on same-sex marriage between Professor Vermuele, the classical natural lawyer, and Graber, the contemporary pragmatist. [read post]
23 Apr 2018, 12:50 pm by Ilya Somin
In oral argument at the Masterpiece Cakeshop case argued before the Supreme Court this fall, Justice Anthony Kennedy highlighted statements suggesting that Colorado officials were at least partly motivated by animus against conservative Christians when they adopted policies requiring bakers to prepare wedding cakes for same-sex marriages they object to on religious grounds. [read post]
22 Dec 2016, 4:21 pm by Jon
Common law crimes established in the territory ofwhat would become the United States as of 1787.b. [read post]
The bipartisan STATES Act fixes this problem once and for all by taking a states’ rights approach to the legal marijuana question. [read post]