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Plaintiff Loses in Religious Discrimination FHA Claim
By Robyn Hagan Cain | Last updated on
In a case of biting that hand that fed her, a woman sued a free, drug-addiction recovery program under the Fair Housing Act (FHA), saying that the organization...
Obama Nominates Jacqueline Nguyen to Ninth Circuit
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President Obama nominated Judge Jacqueline Nguyen to serve on the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals this week. Nguyen has served as a U.S. District Judge in the...
Ninth Circuit Endorses Calendar Lies in the Interest of Justice
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Rent lied to us. All the singing and dancing about five-hundred-twenty-five-thousand-six-hundred-minutes? Nonsense. In a case to file under...
Boehner, BLAG Will Appeal DOMA Ruling
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Republican leaders are appealing last week’s Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA) ruling to the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals. Attorneys filed the appeal on behalf...
Ninth Circuit Upholds California DNA Act
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A suspect may be innocent until proven guilty, but any suspect arrested for a serious crime in California can be swabbed for a DNA sample. Today, the Ninth...
ProtectMarriage Asks for Prop 8 En Banc Rehearing
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We all knew that the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals Prop 8 ruling wasn't the end of the Perry v. Brown battle; the question, however, was whether...