Unless you were living in a cave you should be aware that a week ago Tuesday the people of Maine decided to pass on marriage rights for same-sex couples. Commentators described it as not only “a harsh blow to the gay marriage drive,” but “a major set back to gay rights,” and “a tremendous and [...]
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Katherine Darmer is a is a Professor of Law at Chapman University and is also a Distinguished Senior Fellow in the Gender & Sexuality Law Program this fall. She offers the following observations about on-going litigation challenging a California High School’s failure to protect LGBT students from homophobic threats and violence:
Earlier this year, the New [...]
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The Supreme Court issued a decision today authored by Justice David Souter that is likely his last opinion on the Court. The Court decided Safford Unified School District v. Redding 8-1 that the Fourth Amendment’s prohibition against unreasonable searches and seizures was violated when public school officials searched a 13 year old girl by having [...]
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