Ark. Judge Voids Ban on Gay Foster Parents
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An Arkansas judge Wednesday declared unconstitutional a state ban on placing foster children in any household with a gay member.
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BRASILIA, Brazil  - A Brazilian court on Friday  barred the lesbian partner of the outgoing mayor of an Amazon  town from trying to succeed her, citing a ban on political  office passing between family members.
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NEW ORLEANS, La.  - Louisiana voters on Saturday  overwhelmingly approved an amendment to the state constitution  banning gay marriages and civil unions.
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NEW YORK Aug. 26, 2004 - In a highly anticipated ruling, a federal judge found the Partial-Birth Abortion Ban Act unconstitutional Thursday because it does not include a health exception.
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NEW YORK - A federal judge declared the Partial-Birth Abortion Ban Act unconstitutional Thursday in the second such ruling in three months - even though he called the procedure "gruesome, brutal, barbaric and uncivilized."   U.S. District Judge Richard C...
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The Supreme Court declined Tuesday to review an Air Force lieutenant's criminal conviction for having sex with a 15-year-old boy, which the officer contended was protected by a previous court decision overturning state statues that criminalized gay sex.
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A man who gained national media attention by claiming he was not allowed to adopt a baby because of his weight was awarded temporary custody of the child, but the judge chided him and his wife, saying they knew the primary reason the boy had been removed from their home had nothing to do with obesity.
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The state Supreme Court terminated a father's right to raise his 4-year-old special needs son Thursday because they would have lived with the boy's alcoholic and mentally retarded mother.
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A federal judge ruled Friday that California's ban on sex offenders living within 2,000 feet of places where children gather can't be applied retroactively.
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LITTLE ROCK, Ark.  - The Arkansas Supreme Court on  Thursday refused to strike from the November ballot a proposed  amendment to the state constitution banning gay marriage and  civil unions.
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The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday allowed Florida to continue barring gay men and lesbians from adopting children under a law that is the only one of its kind in the nation.
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JACKSONVILLE, Fla., Dec. 24 -- A couple must return a 3-year-old boy they moved to adopt shortly after birth to his biological mother, a judge has ruled.
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A judge has banned Robert Blake&#39;s defense team from linking Marlon Brando&#39;s son Christian to the murder of Blake&#39;s wife Bonny Lee Bakley.
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A magistrate who disagrees with new rights for gay couples loses his discrimination case.
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A state judge Tuesday threw out a Louisiana constitutional amendment banning gay marriage, less than three weeks after it was overwhelmingly approved by the voters.
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Missouri lost a Supreme Court appeal Monday over its decision to bar a Ku Klux Klan group from a highway litter cleanup program.
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In a highly anticipated ruling, a federal judge found the Partial-Birth Abortion Ban Act unconstitutional Thursday because it does not include a health exception.