Arkansas judgeâs ruling favors gay foster parents
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A state ban on placing foster children in any household with a gay member was struck down when a judge ruled that the state agency enforcing it overstepped its authority by trying to regulate &quot;public morality.
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A 5-year-old Cuban girl at the center of an international custody dispute should be returned to her father, unless separating the child from her Miami foster parents would cause her extreme harm, a judge ruled Thursday.
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An Arkansas judge ruled on Monday that presidential candidate Ralph Nader's name be removed from ballots in the state because his campaign did not meet qualifications for being listed.
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The decision contradicts an earlier Virginia court ruling that awarded custody to the biological parent.
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The Arkansas Supreme Court said on Friday that presidential candidate Ralph Nader's name should be placed on the state's ballot, overturning a circuit court judge's decision.
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TALLAHASSEE - A bitter legal battle over whether the husband of a brain-damaged woman should be allowed to remove her feeding tube against the wishes of her parents reached the Florida Supreme Court on Tuesday.
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Yvonne Roberts used to take comfort in knowing that the killer of her 3-year-old son was behind bars. That was before two recent state Supreme Court decisions let him out &#151; four decades early.
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A divided Montana Supreme Court declared Thursday that the state constitution's guarantee of equal protection extends to gays, and ruled that the state university system must offer same-sex couples the same health benefits available to heterosexual ones.
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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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A county judge struck down Iowa's decade-old gay marriage ban as unconstitutional Thursday and ordered local officials to process marriage licenses for six gay couples.
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The Finnish Supreme Court has upheld its earlier ruling to grant custody of two young brothers to their American father in the United States.
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Â· Judge rules that woman hands over boy to father  Â· Compulsive desire to parent led to deception
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Lesbian parents Carla and Marie-Laure have just made French legal history by winning the right to raise their three young children, yet despite the flood of media attention life goes on as usual for the family.
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As gay rights supporters and foes gathered outside, a U.S. federal court on Wednesday took up the question of whether a Massachusetts town and its school district infringed on parents' rights when a teacher read young students a book with a gay theme.
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The Louisiana Supreme Court on Wednesday reinstated the anti-gay marriage amendment to the state constitution that was overwhelmingly approved by voters in September.
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LITTLE ROCK, Ark.  - An Arkansas judge ruled on  Monday that presidential candidate Ralph Nader's name be  removed from ballots in the state because his campaign did not  meet qualifications for being listed.
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TALLAHASSEE, Fla.  - An emotionally charged case  pitting a husband against his brain-damaged wife's parents goes  before the Florida Supreme Court on Tuesday for a ruling that  may help decide if she lives or dies.