The Supreme Court of Puerto Rico is currently considering whether Puerto Rico’s laws permit the adoption of a child by a non-biological parent who is the same-sex partner of the child’s legally recognized parent. Such adoptions are typically referred to as “second-parent” adoptions because they occur in situations where the child already has a legally [...]
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Second Parent Adoption Rights in Puerto Rico: Clinic Students Submit Amicus Brief
November 17th, 2009
The Department of Homeland Security announced this week that it was revamping its immigration detention policy by making it more human and treating people accused of immigration law violations less like criminals. Speaking to the New York Times, Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano said:
“The paradigm was wrong,” Ms. Napolitano said of the nation’s patchwork of [...]
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