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Students and Parents Sue the Chicago School District

Friday, November 13, 2009

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Students and Parents Sue the Chicago School District

On September 24th of this year, a student at Fenger High School in Chicago was beaten to death while walking home from school. The incident was caught on film. Since then, parents who have tried to transfer their children to other schools out of concern for their safety have been stonewalled by a [...]

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Prop 8 Challenge Allowed to Proceed

Wednesday, October 14, 2009

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Prop 8 Challenge Allowed to Proceed

Opponents of California’s Proposition 8, which amended the California Constitution to limit marriage to heterosexual couples, have overcome a motion to dismiss their challenge of the law in federal court. Prop 8’s backers argued that the challenge should be dismissed because the Supreme Court let a similar law stand in Minnesota in a 1972 [...]

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