Equal Protection

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• Land Use Law Day At The Seventh Circuit: "Property Owner Can Kill A Trespassing Dog That Has Irresistible Urge To Suck Eggs"

  
  inversecondemnation.com — Authority: 469
  Heres an opinion from the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit thats worth reading, if only to see why we like reading Judge Posners writings: It uses contractions (Judge Kozinski would approve). Slip op. at 11 ("The rule doesnt apply to an order of civil contempt..."); slip op. at 5 ("No court thinks, ...
  3 days ago

• WRONGFUL EVICTION IN LOS ANGELES, ORANGE COUNTY, RIVERSIDE COUNTY, SAN BERNARDINO COUNTIES, LOS ANGELES

  
  TIERRA LIMPIA by Charles Lincoln — Authority: 124
  Tustin California Attorney Steven D. Silverstein has recently been sued for what he advertises as his business: fundamental violation of human rights by wrongful eviction. If others have had similar experience, it may be possible to lodge a class action against Mr. Silverstein. It is alleged that Silverstein is a ...
  4 days ago

• So, Perry v. Schwarzenegger

  
  Letters in Bottles — Authority: 142
  Whats your take on the Boies-Olson federal suit to invalidate Californias Prop. 8 ? Heres the complaint .  The trial is slated to begin in January . From what I can tell, its going to be difficult, legally, to avoid the many analogies to the Colorado amendment struck down under equal protection in  Romer v. ...
  5 days ago

• If Ted Olsen and David Boise Win, Are They Doing the GOP A Favor.

  
  Michael-In-Norfolk - - Coming Out In Mid Life — Authority: 443
  I have posted several times about the challenge to Proposition 8 now pending in federal court in California being led by former U.S. Solicitor General Ted Olson and David Boise. The case contends that Proposition 8 is unconstitutional under the U. S. Constitution, not the least because it denies same sex couples equal ...
  6 days ago

• A visual look at marriage equality arguments

  
  My Point Exactly — Authority: 130
  I can’t find any details about where this graphic originated except for the note at the bottom crediting Patrick Farley and Facebook, but it’s worth sharing nevertheless. Mad props to whoever deserves them: My favorite things about this graphic: The choice of pink for the anti-marriage equality arguments ...
  6 days ago

• Ruby-Sachs: Straight Brooklyn Couple Applies to Annul Marriage Because Gay Marriage Still Not Legal

  
  OutGayLife.com — Authority: 157
  A couple in Brooklyn is looking to challenge the legitimacy of straight marriages in light of the recent New York Senate vote against gay marriage rights. Their strategy: apply for an annulment. An annulment is usually reserved for marriages where there is no consummation of the marriage (yep, that means sex), ...
  1 week ago

• DUANE: Promises made were not honored

  
  OutGayLife.com — Authority: 157
  When out N.Y. state senator Thomas Duane delivered the final speech at yesterday’s marriage debate in Albany, he spoke with a sense of confidence in the final resolution.  Instead, the bill lost 24-38, with Duane and marriage equality advocates left stunned.  After the vote, Duane released a statement to express ...
  1 week ago

• Sanctify This

  
  The Liberty Papers — Authority: 529
  In the “call their bluff” department, a California man is trying to protect the sanctity of marriage — by banning divorce : Til death do us part? The vow would really hold true in California if a Sacramento Web designer gets his way. In a movement that seems ripped from the pages of Comedy Channel writers, ...
  1 week ago

• Geithner Penalty Waiver Act of 2009

  
  The Tax Lawyer's Blog — Authority: 433
  From the TaxProf, Paul Caron:Congressmen John Carter (R-TX) and Lynn Westmoreland (R-GA) yesterday introduced the Geithner Penalty Waiver Act, requiring that the IRS assess the same penalty against U.S. taxpayers that came forward in the UBS tax fraud investigation as paid by Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner for ...
  1 week ago

• Amendment 28 Proposed by Citizens of America

  
  ARRA News Service — Authority: 564
  Making the rounds these days is a recommended Constitutional Amendment. While many have reached the point of desiring Congressional Term Limits, the following is an amendment a majority of Americans should be able to quickly promote. Doubt if those rascals in Congress would agree. Thomas Jefferson said, "When the ...
  1 week ago

• Hate Criminals Not Intimidated

  
  Opinion Forum — Authority: 134
  By Harvey Grund The daily political blog Politics Daily has published an article  about hate crimes. The article is filled with data and statistics (taken from the FBI’s 2008 Hate Crimes Statistics report), and these statistics indicate that hate crimes are up. The idea that a crime committed against ...
  1 week ago

• Health Care Financing Reform: (71) Are Filibusters Constitutional?

  
  Akron Law Caf — Authority: 428
       Absent the threat of a filibuster, health care reform would already have been enacted into law.  Are filibusters constitutional?      By itself, the "filibuster" is nothing more than an attempt to wear down the opposition through endless debate.  It is an annoying tactic whenever it is used by family ...
  2 weeks ago

• Federal District Court Dismisses Substantive Due Process and Equal Protection Claims

  
  LAW OF THE LAND — Authority: 425
  The Rustons own 27 acres of property in the Town of Skaneateles which they have been trying to subdivide and develop since. In ongoing litigation , the Rustons filed an amended complaint asserting a substantive due process claim, a class-of-one equal protection claim, a facial challenge to provisions of the Town’s ...
  2 weeks ago

• Federal Judge Declares DOMA Unconstitutional

  
  Akron Law Caf — Authority: 428
       Judge Stephen Reinhardt of the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals has found a key provision of the Defense of Marriage Act unconstitutional.       Judge Stephen Reinhardt issued a ruling Wednesday in the case of In the Matter of Brad Levenson in which he declared that a key provision of the Defense of ...
  2 weeks ago

• Update on Massachusetts Case Against DOMA

  
  OutGayLife.com — Authority: 157
  Gay married couples suing the government over the Defense of Marriage Act, which denies federal recognition to same-sex unions, said Tuesday there is "no legitimate or plausible" reason for having a federal definition of marriage that excludes gay couples. The lawsuit was brought by seven gay couples and ...
  3 weeks ago

• Same Sex Marriage, the Courts, and Religious Liberty: How Much of a Conflict?

  
  The League of Ordinary Gentlemen — Authority: 673
  Time for some blawging. Rod Dreher makes the case, once again, that same-sex marriage presents a unique and unavoidable conflict that will drastically undermine religious liberty in this nation, concluding that the ”conflict between gay rights and religious liberty is deep, serious and irresolvable to the ...
  3 weeks ago

• Is FCC Declaring ‘Open Season’ on Internet Freedom?

  
  Big Government — Authority: 815
  The FCC, in proposing to change the definition of an “open Internet” from competition-driven to government-driven is setting a very dangerous precedent; that it is acceptable for countries to preemptively regulate the Internet for what might happen in the future, even if they lack the legitimacy of ...
  3 weeks ago

• On this Veteran’s Day I must ask what our generations of soldiers have fought and died for?

  
  InvestmentWatch — Authority: 156
  I was under the assumption we fought for freedom and against tyranny and for a Government by the people and for the people, liberty, justice and equal protection under our laws. But as any thinking person surveys the landscape today it becomes clear that deaths have contributed to Federal tyranny, Co-opted liberty, ...
  4 weeks ago

• 11th Circuit Court of Appeals Finds Insufficient Evidence to Support Discriminatory Enforcement Claims

  
  LAW OF THE LAND — Authority: 425
  Bonasera, a Hispanic woman living in a predominantly white neighborhood, installed a second kitchen in her home and in 1999 began renting rooms to boarders.  In 2006, following the complaints of a neighbor, the City cited her for violating City ordinances restricting the use of her property to “one family ...
  4 weeks ago

• “THEY HATE US BECAUSE OF OUR FREEDOM”

  
  War On You: Breaking Alternative News — Authority: 545
  “THEY HATE US BECAUSE OF OUR FREEDOM” “THEY HATE US BECAUSE OF OUR FREEDOM” ~GeorgeW. Bush George W. Bush, got that right . They DO hate Americans because of their freedom. The freedom to walk freely and not be arrested, kidnapped, detained or interned without Due Process of the Law, the freedom ...
  5 weeks ago

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