New Jersey civil union law fails to protect
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A new state civil unions law has failed to ensure that same-sex couples in New Jersey enjoy the same rights as married heterosexuals, an official report said on Tuesday.
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When New Jersey became the first state outside liberal New England to approve same-sex civil unions, Craig Ross and Richard Cash were among the hundreds of couples who  hurried to get their licenses. With Cash unemployed and his private health insurance costing $480 a month, the couple hoped the new...
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A lawyer for the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) argued Monday that the government's defense of the controversial Child Online Protection Act (COPA) was inconsistent in defining what kind of online content is harmful to minors, and so the law should continue to remain unenforceable because it violates free speech.
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A state-approved educational video that discusses a same-sex couple has sparked debate in New Jersey.
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Ordered by New Jersey's highest court to offer marriage or its equivalent to gay couples, the Legislature voted Thursday to make New Jersey the third state to allow civil unions.
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The Supreme Court declined to step into the nationwide debate over same-sex marriages Monday, refusing to hear a challenge to the only state law that sanctions such unions.
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TRENTON, N.J. -- New Jersey's Supreme Court rejected a huge class-action lawsuit against drugmaker Merck & Co. over its withdrawn painkiller Vioxx on Thursday, reversing two previous lower-court decisions.
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Conservative groups in New Jersey are pushing a proposal that would grant the rights of marriage &#151; but not the title &#151; to gays, siblings and others involved in domestic partnerships.
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By Julia Oliver, The Charlotte Observer, N.C.  Mar. 5--Union County has asked a court to uphold its growth-control ordinance in response to a developer's suit challenging its legality.
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NEW YORK, Dec. 14 -- With a mandate from New Jersey's highest court to offer gay couples the same rights as heterosexuals, the state legislature voted Thursday to create civil unions but stopped short of using the word "marriage."
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Hundreds of gay couples were granted the same legal rights, if not the title, as married couples Monday as New Jersey became the third state to offer civil unions.
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WASHINGTON (BP)--The US Supreme Court refused Nov. 29 to review the decision by the Massachusetts high court that legalized same-sex &quot;marriage&quot; in that state.
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Every property owner in the state should be alarmed that the New Jersey  Supreme Court decided today that government has the right to take  ownership of your land under the guise of preserving open space, whether  you want to sell it or not, according to the Builders League of South  Jersey.
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New Jersey officially said Monday that it has "profound regret" for practicing slavery, and became the first state north of the Mason-Dixon line to pass such apologetic legislation.
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A state judge on Wednesday rejected a challenge of a 1913 law barring out-of-state gay couples from marrying in Massachusetts, where residents have had that first-in-the-nation right since May.
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Refusing to wade into the debate over gay marriage in Massachusetts, the US Supreme Court yesterday rejected a bid to overturn a landmark court ruling legalizing gay marriage in the Bay State.
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The construction industry comes under fire from unions for its "failure" to act to prevent workplace fatalities.