Since the news media is saturated with analysis of the Court’s arguments in today’s Proposition 8 case, this blog post offers a more personal view of the proceedings: I dashed down from my hotel room at 6:10 a.m. to catch a predawn ride with colleagues over to the Supreme Court. Even at that hour, First […]
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New York’s highest court Tuesday unanimously granted parental rights to a woman whose former partner blocked her from spending time with the child the two women had raised together since birth. The Columbia Law School Sexuality & Gender Law Clinic had filed a friend-of-the-court brief with the Court of Appeals in the case, Debra H. […]
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Live Streaming Video Screening of Oral Argument In DEBRA H. v. JANICE R. before the New York Court of Appeals WEDNESDAY, February 17th at 2:00pm, JGH 602 The dispute in Debra H. centers on the issue of “functional parenthood” — who is a legal parent in the eyes of the law? In the 1991 case […]
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