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...case for free. We found a 1965 Supreme Court case overturning a Connecticut law making it a crime to use birth control, as well as cases in other states challenging antiabortion statutes. We decided to challenge the Texas laws. A pregnant woman called Jane Roe was the plaintiff in the class action we filed against Henry Wade, the district attorney of Dallas County...
...lower court ruled against them, despite the fact that nothing in Massachusetts state law specifically prohibits same-sex marriages. The couples appealed, and now the Supreme Judicial Court will rule on one of the most contentious marital debates of our time. If the Court decides in favor of the plaintiff, Massachusetts could lead the way in finally ending this discriminatory, outdated constraint of limiting state sanctioned marriage exclusively to heterosexual couples...
...only son is being sent to war with no debate and no dissent,” said Susan Schumann, a plaintiff in the case and the mother of a Marine. “I was asked by John to join the suit. I talked to my son about it, and he said, ‘If I am a soldier, it’s to defend the constitution and your right to speak...
...court in a black robe. She's 25, loquacious and the cutest justice the show's producers could find. With a rap of her gavel, the first case begins. Standing before her is the defendant, a Beijing resident who keeps a pet donkey in his apartment. The outraged plaintiff argues that farm animals aren't allowed in city homes. The defendant retorts that his donkey has never lived on a farm so it isn't a farm animal. Well, says the plaintiff, Beijing residents aren't allowed to keep dogs bigger than a Pekinese. A donkey...
...spokesman for MCAD declined yesterday, except to say the is still "under investigation," and agency has not yet decided if it jurisdiction. If MCAD decides it jurisdiction and finds "probable cause" that the Fly Club is violating state law, then the agency will provide the plaintiff with legal counsel and can require a public hearing, award damages and seek an injunction...