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Prostitution policy splits NGOs in top court AIDS case
ReutersWASHINGTON (Reuters) - A Supreme Court case that challenges a law requiring anti-prostitution policies for HIV/AIDS programs seeking federal money has generated a split among nonprofit groups that counsel sex workers overseas. The case involves a 2003...Tags: Sex Crimes, Malaria, Parties and Movements, Crime, Law and Justice, Court Preliminary
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UB prepares to open new Law Center
Like American jurisprudence, the University of Baltimore's new $114 million law school is complicated and thoughtful. Staircases bridge across and spiral through the 12-story building's vibrant atrium, connecting a labyrinth of classrooms and study...
Tags: U.S. Supreme Court, Mount Royal, University System of Maryland, Career and Workplace, Students
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Justice Kennedy's one-man show
WASHINGTON -- Imagine how gratifying it must feel to be Anthony Kennedy. As the justice who most often serves as the swing vote on the Supreme Court, he is the target of endless sycophancy, solicitude and general kissing up -- and his courtiers were...
Tags: Antonin Scalia, Marriage, Barack Obama, Crime, Law and Justice, Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act
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Court seems to be leaning against Defense of Marriage Act
WASHINGTON — After two days of arguments on same-sex marriage, the Supreme Court seemed poised to give gays and lesbians a major legal victory but probably not the immediate right to marry in all states that many of them had hoped for. Justice...
Tags: Antonin Scalia, Court Administration, Marriage, Lobbying, Barack Obama
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Supreme Court may strike down DOMA gay marriage law, experts say
Legal experts said Wednesday that U.S. Supreme Court justices suggested they might strike down the Defense of Marriage Act that denies federal benefits to legally married gay couples. It marked the second landmark gay-rights case the justices considered...
Tags: U.S. Supreme Court, Justice and Rights, Marriage, Social Security, Proposition 8 (California, 2010)
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Supreme Court likely to strike down DOMA, experts say
Experts said that based on Wednesday's arguments, the U.S. Supreme Court appears willing to strike down the Defense of Marriage Act. Gay rights lawyer Jon W. Davidson said Wednesday that the U.S. Supreme Court was likely to permit married same-sex...
Tags: U.S. Supreme Court, Marriage, Proposition 8 (California, 2010), Crime, Law and Justice, Laws
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Liberal justices, Kennedy appear to favor ending part of DOMA
WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court wrapped up a second day of arguments on gay marriage, as Justice Anthony M. Kennedy and the court’s liberal justices appeared headed toward striking down the part of the Defense of Marriage Act that denies...Tags: Antonin Scalia, Marriage, Lobbying, Crime, Law and Justice, Laws
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Justices raise concerns about Defense of Marriage Act defense
WASHINGTON -- A lawyer defending the federal law that denies benefits to legally married same-sex couples faced skeptical questions from key Supreme Court justices, who suggested the law wrongly discriminated against gays and improperly intruded into...
Tags: Marriage, Crime, Law and Justice, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Laws, Defense of Marriage Act
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Excerpts of Tuesday's gay marriage case at high court
Excerpts from the arguments before the Supreme Court on Tuesday about California's Proposition 8 ban on same-sex marriage, from a transcript released by the Supreme Court: ___ On whether the case should be before them (Chief Justice John Roberts and...
Tags: Antonin Scalia, Marriage, Justice and Rights, Strom Thurmond, Proposition 8 (California, 2010)
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Scalia gets it right
In his opinions on abortion and gay rights, Justice Antonin Scalia has taken an offensively narrow view of the Constitution's guarantees of due process and equal protection of the laws. But when it comes to the 4th Amendment's more specific protection...
Tags: Antonin Scalia, Gays and Lesbians, Crime, Law and Justice, Miami (Miami-Dade, Florida), Drug Trafficking
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Supreme Court seems willing to restore gay marriage in California
WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court, hearing arguments on the emotionally charged issue of gay marriage for the first time, appeared willing Tuesday to restore marital rights to gays and lesbians in California but uncomfortable with legalizing same-sex...Tags: Antonin Scalia, Justice and Rights, Marriage, Proposition 8 (California, 2010), Crime, Law and Justice
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Supreme Court appears split on Prop. 8, broad gay marriage ruling
WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court justices sounded closely split on gay marriage Tuesday, but Justice Anthony M. Kennedy suggested the court should strike down California’s ban on same-sex marriage without ruling broadly on the issue. Twice...Tags: Antonin Scalia, Marriage, Proposition 8 (California, 2010), Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Crime, Law and Justice
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