Law meant to reunite families has no takers
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By now, Sen. Mike Gibbons thought that a mental health bill he drafted would have been the saving grace of hundreds of Missouri families.
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A father fights for access to information about his son's death during a law enforcement chase, only to find that Mississippi's sunshine laws don't require the public release of investigative records.
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Â· DNA evidence useless, say family sourcesÂ· New spokesman launches vigorous defence of couple
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The House of Representatives was scheduled to reconvene today without any sign of compromise on an intelligence-overhaul bill sought by President Bush that is being blocked from a final vote
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The U.S. Supreme Court refused on  Monday to hear a constitutional challenge to a 1977 Florida law  that bans gays and lesbians from adopting children, the only  such state law in the nation.
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Amid changing family values, a proposed law would force children to support their elderly parents.
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SANTIAGO -- After allegedly enduring more than 20 years of beatings, insults, and infidelity -- including a decade in which Chile's Congress fought over a law that would allow the dissolution of marriages -- Maria Victoria Torres recently became the first person in the country to apply for a divorce.
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Can 'unsettle a country's foundations'
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After rushing to write a ban on gay marriage into the state constitution last year, Utah legislators are in no hurry to repair damage the law could deal other kinds of domestic partners.
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Four Britons released from the US detention centre at Guantanamo Bay last month have been refused British passports under an obscure law not used in almost 30 years, a lawyer representing two of them said on ...
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Legislation to reshape the intelligence community collapsed yesterday as conservative House Republicans refused to embrace a compromise because they said
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SAN FRANCISCO - A bitterly divided federal appeals court reversed itself Wednesday and upheld the constitutionality of a 4-year-old law requiring federal parolees to give blood samples for the FBI&#39;s DNA database - a law the same court declared an ...
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A law restricting international adoptions to biological grandparents took effect Saturday, legislation that some American families trying to adopt Romanian children protested.
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Canada's Supreme Court rejects a law allowing the detention and deportation of foreign-born terror suspects.
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The political balancing act that is at the heart of the country's unity is keeping it from finding new leadership
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Potential sperm donors should not be concerned by new laws allowing them to be traced, research suggests.
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A dispute over how heavily to weigh family ties in future immigration is re-emerging as the Senate resumes debate this week over legislation giving legal status to millions of unlawful immigrants.