Tuesday, March 4, 2014

Regnerus testifies and is cross examined...and the University of Texas Department of Sociology issues disclaimer

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THIS I find unusual.  The Sociology Department of the University of Texas has issued a statement that the testimony of Mark Regnerus in the...
Wednesday, February 26, 2014

Why the trial in Michigan Federal Court really matters....and how to follow it closely

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I wrote last fall about DeBoer v. Snyder , and the trial in the case is upon us.  This case began as a challenge to Michigan's refusal t...
Tuesday, November 26, 2013

That was fast! Arkansas Supreme Court rules there is no mandatory ban in custody and visitation cases on the presence of a nonmarital partner

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Seems like I just wrote about the case of Moix v. Moix .   Oh....I DID just write about it!  The Arkansas Supreme Court heard oral argument ...
Wednesday, November 13, 2013

Arkansas Supreme Court reconsiders ban on presence of unmarried partner during visitation

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In 2011, the Arkansas Supreme Court issued a definitive blow to restrictions on unmarried couples, gay and straight, adopting children in Co...
Thursday, November 7, 2013

Indiana appeals court limits nonbio mom to visitation

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I remember when the parentage of nonbio moms was so invisible to courts that the ability to obtain visitation rights after the end of the co...
Saturday, October 26, 2013

NY Times covers same-sex couples who don't want to marry

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Sunday's New York Times article on same-sex couples who aren't marrying adds a dimension usually lost in all the news of marriage e...
Wednesday, October 16, 2013

Michigan District Court judge will require the state to defend its marriage ban at trial. But, wait...this case should be about adoption

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In a post last March about numerous second-parent adoption cases , I criticized a Michigan federal court case, DeBoer v. Snyder , for its co...