For the last seventy-five years, Augusta, Georgia has predominantly been known for its connection to the Masters, one of the nation’s most tradition-laden events in all of sports. But less than a mile from Magnolia Lane, Augusta State University (ASU) has become embroiled in a legal controversy with a former [...]
On the eve of its annual gay pride parade, and after a week of delay and debate, New York’s legislature has passed a marriage equality bill. Nearly two years after a similar bill failed overwhelmingly in the State’s Senate, four Republicans joined twenty-nine Democrats in securing the bill’s passage. New [...]
For the very first time, the Human Rights Council at the United Nations approved a resolution that condemns discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation. The 47-member Human Rights Council voted 23 in favor and 19 against Friday, with 3 abstentions, for the resolution put forward by South Africa. The [...]
On Monday, the New York Times published a story on Rick Welts, currently the president of the NBA’s Phoenix Suns, in which Welts first publicly announced that he is gay. But this is far from the first time that the National Basketball Association has found itself on the front lines [...]
By Mary L. Bonauto and Gary D. Buseck Contrary to much of the commentary about the President’s decision not to defend DOMA in court, the issue of the standard of review for sexual orientation classifications is still a live claim in the First Circuit in the upcoming appeal of the [...]
Virginia Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli’s office said in a memo dated Tuesday that proposed rules that would require private and faith-based groups, such as Catholic Charities and Jewish Family Services, to allow gay parents to adopt children “does not comport with applicable state law and public policy.”
A little over a year ago, a federal appeals court ruled in favor of a couple who had adopted a Louisiana-born child and sought to get an amended birth certificate from the Louisiana Office of Public Health and Vital Records Registry. The couple wanted both of their names listed on [...]
The Arkansas Supreme Court has struck down a state law barring unmarried gay and straight couples from adopting or serving as foster parents. The Court ruled that the law was unconstitutional because it “burdens the privacy rights of ‘opposite-sex and same-sex individuals’ who engage in private, consensual sexual conduct in the bedroom by foreclosing [...]
On March 9, 2011 at 5-7p.m. at Harvard Law School in Austin North Professor Libby Adler presented her piece entitled, “Gay Rights and Lefts: Rights Critique and Distributive Analysis for Real Law Reform. Streaming video of the March 9 presentation and discussion is below.
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