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Once again, a same-sex wedding cake will test civil rights protections: A California case tests whether a business owner can refuse to allow a same-sex couple to ...
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Once again, a same-sex wedding cake will test civil rights protections
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Bill aimed at protecting same-sex marriage in Louisiana dies in committee: Despite pleas from the LGBTQ+ community, lawmakers have shelved a bill that would have ...
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Bill aimed at protecting same-sex marriage in Louisiana dies in committee
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Roberta Kaplan Was E. Jean Carroll’s Lawyer and Trump’s Nemesis: When they faced off at E. Jean Carroll’s defamation trial, it was a clash of two New Yorkers ...
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Roberta Kaplan Was E. Jean Carroll’s Lawyer and Trump’s Nemesis
Quick Glance: E. Jean Carroll Plans to Use Trump Trial Money for Good
  • Carroll promises to do 'something good' with money won from Trump

  • Writer awarded $83.3 million for defamation

  • It could take years to see the money, but she is already planning how to use it

  • After the verdict on Friday, Carroll is not ready to assume that the former president is finished with her
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Former Kentucky clerk who refused to issue same-sex marriage licenses must pay $260,000, judge rules
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Former Kentucky clerk who refused to issue same-sex marriage licenses must ...
Quick Glance: Kim Davis Ordered to Pay $260,000
  • Former county clerk Kim Davis must pay $260,104 to attorneys representing a same-sex couple.

  • In addition to $100,000 in damages, Davis is required to cover attorneys' fees and expenses as ruled by a federal judge.

  • Despite claims of excessive costs, a U.S. District Judge mandated that Davis pay, citing the couple's legal victory.

  • Davis, who gained international attention for refusing to issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples in 2015, is expected to appeal the ruling.
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Kim Davis, who denied gay marriage licenses in 2015, fined $260,000: The case began in 2015 after the Supreme Court’s ruling that same-sex couples have the same ...
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Kim Davis, who denied gay marriage licenses in 2015, fined $260,000
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Mike Johnson’s America: Revisit landmark SCOTUS decisions and use government to ‘restrain evil’
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Mike Johnson’s America: Revisit landmark SCOTUS decisions and use ...
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Support for same-sex marriage and LGBTQ protections dipped in 2023, survey shows
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Support for same-sex marriage and LGBTQ protections dipped in 2023 ...
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Alito says he was right to fear that opponents of gay marriage would be treated as bigots
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Alito says he was right to fear that opponents of gay marriage would be ...
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Explainer: Why the Supreme Court ​​refused to legalise same-sex marriages: The five-judge bench unanimously held that there is no fundamental right to marry ...
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Explainer: Why the Supreme Court ​​refused to legalise same-sex marriages
Quick Glance: US monitoring India's response to same-sex marriage court decision
  • The United States is encouraging India to offer equal legal protection to same-sex couples and is closely watching the Indian government's next steps after the Supreme Court declined to legalize same-sex marriage.

  • India's top court has declined to legalize same-sex marriage and has left the decision to the parliament, aligning with Prime Minister Narendra Modi's government's view that the legislature should rule on the issue.

  • A spokesperson for the U.S. State Department said, "The United States supports marriage equality globally."

  • Asia, a continent where conservative values still dominate in many countries, lags far behind the West in accepting same-sex marriage.
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'We all deserve the right': Inside the Ohio push to protect interracial, same-sex marriages
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'We all deserve the right': Inside the Ohio push to protect interracial ...
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VA to cover IVF for single veterans, same-sex couples after lawsuits: VA announced Monday that in the coming weeks, it would cover IVF costs for qualifying ...
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VA to cover IVF for single veterans, same-sex couples after lawsuits
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Will teens ask parents for birth control? Do they ask to have sex?: An appeals court ruled that Texas teens need parental permission for birth control. Now ...
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Will teens ask parents for birth control? Do they ask to have sex?
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Will the Supreme Court come for what remains of the right to privacy?: With courts coming for abortion and IVF, it’s hard not to wonder what’s next.
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Will the Supreme Court come for what remains of the right to privacy?
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Alito Renews Threat to Overturn Marriage Equality: "Overturning Obergefell is on their bucket list," said one journalist.
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Alito Renews Threat to Overturn Marriage Equality
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Marriage equality bills likely to head to Youngkin’s desk: Proposals to ensure the issuance of marriage licenses “without regard to the sex ...
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Marriage equality bills likely to head to Youngkin’s desk
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Editorial: LGBTQ+ measures a touchstone of human rights protection in Japan - The Mainichi
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Gay marriage is legal in Texas. A justice who won't marry same-sex couples heads to court anyway
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Gay marriage is legal in Texas. A justice who won't marry same-sex couples ...
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Nepal Paves Way to Legalize Same-Sex Marriage: Nepal’s Supreme Court has issued a temporary order greenlighting the registration of same-sex marriages for the ...
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Nepal Paves Way to Legalize Same-Sex Marriage
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Dem lawmakers want to put same-sex marriage in Virginia’s constitution: Virginia’s constitution still includes a prohibition against same-sex marriage ...
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Dem lawmakers want to put same-sex marriage in Virginia’s constitution
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LGBT rights yield to religious interests at US Supreme Court: In its decision permitting an evangelical Christian web designer to refuse service for same-sex ...
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LGBT rights yield to religious interests at US Supreme Court
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Man denies making request cited in landmark Supreme Court LGBTQ case: As website designer Lorie Smith battled Colorado’s public accommodation law ...
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Man denies making request cited in landmark Supreme Court LGBTQ case
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If your faith makes you discriminate at work, change jobs: Those concerned about complicity can live according to their faith by choosing jobs unrelated to ...
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If your faith makes you discriminate at work, change jobs
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Is S.F.’s Castro district still an LGBTQ safe haven?: Homelessness in America has a uniquely LGBTQ component. San Francisco doesn’t treat that reality with the ...
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Is S.F.’s Castro district still an LGBTQ safe haven?
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This trial struck down California's same-sex marriage ban. Now you can see the tapes
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This trial struck down California's same-sex marriage ban ...
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Japan faces hurdle to changing law after transgender surgery decision - The Mainichi
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Quick Glance: Japanese Court Rules Sterilisation Requirement for Gender Change Unconstitutional
  • Japan's highest court declares the legal requirement of sterilisation surgery for gender change to be unconstitutional.

  • International bodies, including the European Court of Human Rights, the World Professional Association for Transgender Health, and UN experts, have criticized the requirement as discriminatory and a violation of human rights.

  • The government is obligated to remove the clause quickly to ensure the constitutionality of the law.

  • While many countries have repealed laws mandating sterilisation for gender change, transgender rights remain controversial in Japan.
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Virginia’s senators urge state legislature to repeal same-sex marriage ban: Democratic Virginia Sens. Mark Warner and Tim Kaine are calling on lawmakers in the ...
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Virginia’s senators urge state legislature to repeal same-sex marriage ban
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The Roberts Court twisted the First Amendment into a tool of discrimination: The court’s willful failure to distinguish discriminatory conduct from speech is not ...
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The Roberts Court twisted the First Amendment into a tool of ...
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Beyond Matrimony? Charting A New Course For LGBTQ+ Unions in India: In the wake of India's landmark decision to reject marriage equality, the authors suggest ...
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Beyond Matrimony? Charting A New Course For LGBTQ+ Unions in India
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Supreme Court’s shift to right poses risk to LGBTQ rights: Advocates who for years saw the Supreme Court offer landmark decisions enshrining LGBTQ rights and ...
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Supreme Court’s shift to right poses risk to LGBTQ rights
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The Roberts Court twisted the First Amendment into a tool of discrimination: The court’s willful failure to distinguish discriminatory conduct from speech is not ...
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The Roberts Court twisted the First Amendment into a tool of ...
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Michael Imperioli Has A Message For 'Bigots And Homophobes' Who Watch His Work: "The Sopranos" star sarcastically thanked the Supreme Court after it decided a ...
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Quick Glance: Michael Imperioli Bans 'Bigots' from 'The Sopranos'
  • Imperioli's response to the Supreme Court ruling on LGBTQ discrimination.

  • A web designer in Colorado is granted the right to refuse creating wedding websites for gay individuals according to a 6-3 Supreme Court ruling.

  • Imperioli prohibits bigots and homophobes from viewing The Sopranos, The White Lotus, Goodfellas, or any other movies or TV shows.

  • In June, Imperioli wrote in honor of Pride Month:
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The Supreme Court’s Conservatives Can’t Stop Falling for Phony Plaintiffs: Right-wing groups are constructing straw man plaintiffs to stand in for conservative ...
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The Supreme Court’s Conservatives Can’t Stop Falling for Phony Plaintiffs
Quick Glance: Biden: Constitution Allows Supreme Court Ethics Code
  • President Biden argues that there are no constitutional reasons why the Supreme Court cannot have a code of ethics.

  • Biden emphasizes that it is not the case that the Constitution prohibits the court from having basic and reasonable ethical rules.

  • In an interview with ProPublica, the president discusses threats to democracy and democratic institutions, with the Supreme Court as a main topic.

  • Justices will also decide whether to hear a case involving a hedge fund manager's company, who reportedly flew Justice Samuel Alito to Alaska in 2008.
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The Paranoia of Former Judges Opposing Same-Sex Marriages on Civilisational Grounds
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The Paranoia of Former Judges Opposing Same-Sex Marriages on ...
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Does SC’s verdict on same-sex marriage allow states to enact its own laws?: The Supreme Court did not legalise same-sex marriages on Tuesday in a : majority ...
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Does SC’s verdict on same-sex marriage allow states to enact its own laws?
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"I Stand By What I Said": Chief Justice On Marriage Equality Judgment: The Chief Justice was speaking at the 3rd Comparative Constitutional Law ...
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"I Stand By What I Said": Chief Justice On Marriage Equality ...
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Texas Supreme Court to hear same-sex marriage case: Waco Justice of the Peace Dianne Hensley is suing the state so she does not have to perform weddings for ...
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Texas Supreme Court to hear same-sex marriage case
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Senate same-sex marriage legislation clears key hurdle: Legislation to protect same-sex and interracial marriages has crossed a major Senate hurdle ...
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Senate same-sex marriage legislation clears key hurdle
Quick Glance: United States: Senate majority approves same-sex marriage bill
  • A Supreme Court decision recognized same-sex marriage in the United States, but the right to it is not yet cemented in law.

  • The United States has taken a crucial step toward legalizing same-sex marriage.

  • Democrats were short on time. Biden's Democrats retain control of the House of Representatives until the end of the year.

  • A 2015 Supreme Court decision legalized same-sex marriages in the United States.
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Read Justice Sotomayor's dissent in same-sex wedding website case: Justice Sonia Sotomayor read an impassioned dissent from the bench in a case where a majority ...
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Read Justice Sotomayor's dissent in same-sex wedding website case
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Supreme Court says First Amendment entitles web designer to refuse to do gay weddings
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Supreme Court says First Amendment entitles web designer to refuse to do ...
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Panama's Supreme Court rules against same-sex marriage: The latest news and information from Panama including the Supreme Court ruling against same-sex ...
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Panama's Supreme Court rules against same-sex marriage
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Biden Signed A Marriage Equality Law In Front Of Drag Queens And The Nephew Of That Republican Who Cried About It
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Biden Signed A Marriage Equality Law In Front Of Drag Queens And The ...
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Breaking News: The Supreme Court said a designer in Colorado had a First Amendment right to refuse to create websites for same-sex weddings despite a state law ... Show more   nyti.ms/44IAG6D
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AJC poll: Georgia Republicans oppose gay marriage, support strict abortion laws: Eight years after the U.S. Supreme Court legalized same-sex marriage across the ...
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AJC poll: Georgia Republicans oppose gay marriage, support strict abortion ...
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Senate passes landmark same-sex marriage bill: It's an extraordinary sign of shifting national politics on the issue and a measure of relief for the ...
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Senate passes landmark same-sex marriage bill
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The 12 Republican Senators Who Voted for the Same-Sex Marriage Law: The group includes moderates and senators known for crossing party lines ...
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The 12 Republican Senators Who Voted for the Same-Sex Marriage Law
Quick Glance: Biden signs federal protection for same-sex marriage into law
  • President Joe Biden signed gay marriage legislation into law in front of thousands of people on Tuesday, reflecting the rising acceptance of same-sex couples.

  • Virginia overturned laws prohibiting interracial marriage in 16 states.

  • Thomas did not mention interracial marriage among the cases he believes should be revisited.

  • Furthermore, states will be exempt from issuing marriage licenses to same-sex couples.
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Job protections based on sex or gender identity do not extend to sexual orientation, Maryland’s top court rules
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Job protections based on sex or gender identity do not extend to sexual ...
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Could this lawsuit change how Louisiana handles same-sex custody disputes?: If a woman in a same-sex marriage has a child, and the couple later divorce ...
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Could this lawsuit change how Louisiana handles same-sex custody disputes?
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Supreme Risk: Most rights are based in statute, but dozens — such as rights to same-sex marriage, search warrants and Miranda warnings — are based on judicial ...
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Supreme Risk
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Supreme Court to Hear Case of Web Designer Opposed to Same-Sex Marriage: The justices are likely to settle a question left open in 2018: how to reconcile claims ...
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Supreme Court to Hear Case of Web Designer Opposed to Same-Sex Marriage
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A secret deal between Justices John Roberts and Anthony Kennedy on gay rights and what it means today
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A secret deal between Justices John Roberts and Anthony Kennedy on gay ...
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Michigan Supreme Court expands custody rights of LGBTQ parents: Justices wrote that Pueblo must demonstrate that she and Haas would have married if it was legal ...
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Michigan Supreme Court expands custody rights of LGBTQ parents
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Woman in anti-LGBTQ+ supreme court case did make wedding site after all, report says
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Woman in anti-LGBTQ+ supreme court case did make wedding site after all ...
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Sodomy Laws Remain in 12 States After Lawrence v. Texas: After Roe v. Wade was overturned last year, some feared that other court rulings ...
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Sodomy Laws Remain in 12 States After Lawrence v. Texas