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In re: Gill is a landmark Florida court case that in 2010 ended Florida's 33-year ban on adoptions by homosexuals. In 2007, Frank Martin Gill, an openly gay man, had petitioned the circuit court to adopt two boys that he and his partner had been raising as foster children since 2004.
Florida and Graham v. Florida", Duke Journal of Constitutional Law & Public Policy Sidebar, 5: 24– 44, archived from the original on March 5, 2011. Parker, Alison (2005), The Rest of Their Lives: Life Without Parole for Child Offenders in the United States, New York: Human Rights Watch, ISBN 1-56432-335-8.
In 1977, Florida enacted a law banning same-sex marriage. [20] Furthermore, in November 2008, 61.9 percent of residents voted for Florida Amendment 2, and since then the Florida Constitution has banned same-sex marriage and civil unions. The amendment added Article I Section 27 to the Florida Constitution, which says: [21]
In doing so, six of the seven judges threw out more than 40 years of privacy rights under the Florida Constitution and agreed with the far-right overturn of guaranteed privacy in the U.S ...
A Tampa attorney who was sentenced to eight years of sex offender probation and no prison time after pleading guilty to 34 counts of child pornography charges still will not “acknowledge the ...
Florida's attorney general on Wednesday urged the state's highest court to block voters from deciding whether to amend the state constitution to protect abortion, arguing the measure was ...
The ADF defended Elane Photography in its appeal of being found in violation of the New Mexico Human Rights Act for refusing to photograph a 2006 civil commitment ceremony. In August 2013 the New Mexico Supreme Court found in favor of Willock and that the photographer was in violation of the act.
This is a key provision in cases where Congress declares a human rights treaty to be non-self-executing, for example, by contending it does not add anything to human rights under U.S. domestic law. The International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights is one such case, which, while ratified after more than two decades of inaction, was done ...