Marry the Movement from Southerners on New Ground (SONG) on Vimeo. From Southerners on New Ground: The Supreme Court of the United States has issued many opinions affecting the lives of marginalized people across the country this week. We know that here in the South our SONG family will be…
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From Workplace Prof. Blog: The Ninth Circuit affirmed the grant of a preliminary injunction yesterday against the State of Arizona, requiring it to continue to provide workers in same sex intimate relationships the employee benefits provided to employees in opposite sex intimate relationships. The decision, Diaz v. Brewer, blocks a…
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DOJ: Court Should Not Dismiss Karen Golinski’s Health Benefits Claim, Should Instead Find DOMA Unconstitutional The Dept. of Justice argues that DOMA fails intermediate scrutiny, thereby making it unconstitutional under the Equal Protection Clause of the 5th and 14th Amendments. In evaluating whether such statutes are unconstitutional, the Supreme Court…
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Justice Kagan recusing herself, the Supreme Court, by a 4-4 vote, affirmed the Ninth Circuit’s decision in Flores-Villar v. United States. The plaintiff, Flores-Villar, was born in Mexico to an U.S. citizen father and Mexican mother; the parents were not married. Current law provides that, in order for a child…
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