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patchwork may be the best way to describe the layers of laws that governed the relationships of same-sex couples before June 26, 2015, the day the U.S. Supreme Court recognized a constitutional right to marriage for gay couples in Obergefell v. Hodges (PDF).Robert Stanley, a partner at the family law firm of Jaffe and Clemens in Beverly Hills, California, has personally navigated that patchwork. When he moved to California about 10 years ago from Georgia, he went from a state with no legal status for same-sex couples to one with domestic partnership status. Shortly after the California Supreme Court’s ruling that recognized same-sex marriage went into effect—in mid-June 2008—Stanley and his partner got married.Then the state’s voters approved Proposition 8, the constitutional ban on same-sex marriage. That left Stanley’s marriage legal but prevented additional same-sex couples from marrying. Challenges to Prop 8 sprouted, and same-sex marriages again … [Read more...] about After Obergefell: How the Supreme Court ruling on same-sex marriage has affected other areas of law

A settlement by a suburban Chicago school district of a transgender high school student’s federal civil rights complaint over locker room access has now sparked new litigation.In a federal lawsuit filed Wednesday in Chicago, a group of about 50 parents and students at Township High School in Palatine allege that the settlement violates privacy rights of female students required to share a locker room with the transgender student, the Chicago Tribune (reg. req.) reports.“This is a daily problem for the girls at the school because physical education is a daily class. They’re in a constant state of fear and anxiety over having to change clothes and undress in a facility where a biological male is present,” attorney Jeremy Tedesco of Alliance Defending Freedom tells the newspaper. He represents plaintiffs in the case.Both Township High School District 211 and the U.S. Department of Education are named as defendants, as well as the U.S. Department of Justice, Cook … [Read more...] about School’s pact with feds over transgender locker room access sparks new lawsuit

Legal clinics have launched human rights challenges regarding the disability benefit rate two clients are receiving. The challenges relate to the monthly amount received by two disabled men who get both their meals and room from their landlord through the Ontario Disability Support Program. The legal clinics say the men are receiving reduced ODSP rates as “board and lodgers” and are being discriminated against, contrary to the Ontario Human Rights Code. Each man is being “economically disadvantaged by receiving less money than he would be receiving had his disabilities permitted him to live independently,” they say. “Our argument is that this reduction of benefits discriminates against social assistance recipients whose disabilities are a barrier for them in residing on their own,” says Niiti Simmonds, a staff lawyer at the Income Security Advocacy Centre. Simmonds says if a single person rents an apartment on their own, they receive an ODSP … [Read more...] about Challenges launched over disability benefit rate

MOUNT OLIVE, N.J. (AP) — The Latest on a school bus crash with a dump truck in New Jersey (all times local):4:20 p.m.A New Jersey official says emergency responders helped save students involved in the fatal highway crash of a dump truck and a school bus on a field trip.Bergen County Executive Jim Tedesco praises the work and the effort of the emergency responders.Gov. Phil Murphy says Thursday's crash killed a student and a teacher.The yellow school bus was left on the median of Interstate 80 in Mount Olive with its front end crushed or ripped off. A red dump truck with a mangled front end was parked along the highway nearby.The Paramus (puh-RAM'-uhs) school district says the bus was taking students from East Brook Middle School to Waterloo Village, a historic site near the crash scene.The governor went to the school and says his heart is "broken by today's tragedy."———4:10 p.m.New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy says the crash of a dump truck and a school bus taking … [Read more...] about The Latest: Official praises responders in truck-bus crash

MOUNT OLIVE, N.J. (AP) — The Latest on a school bus crash with a dump truck in New Jersey (all times local):4:40 p.m.Authorities say 45 people were on a school bus that collided with a dump truck on a New Jersey highway, killing a student and a teacher.The yellow school bus was carrying 38 students and seven adults Thursday when it crashed, leaving it on the median of Interstate 80 in Mount Olive with its front end shattered.A boy who was on the bus says the bus fell over and people were left "hanging from their seat belts." Some of the children were inside the bus and some were outside when first responders arrived.Authorities say multiple people have been injured and hospitalized.The Paramus (puh-RAM'-uhs) school district says the bus was taking students from East Brook Middle School to Waterloo Village, a historic site near the crash scene.———4:20 p.m.A New Jersey official says emergency responders helped save students involved in the fatal highway crash of a … [Read more...] about The Latest: 38 students, 7 adults on school bus that crashed