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The Miraculous Year 2010 In United States' Gay Rights Law: Anomaly Or Tipping Point?, Arthur S. Leonard Jan 2011

The Miraculous Year 2010 In United States' Gay Rights Law: Anomaly Or Tipping Point?, Arthur S. Leonard

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During 2010 a series of decisions by United States District Court judges appeared to mark a significant breakthrough in the ongoing struggle by sexual minorities in the United States to achieve legal equality through the removal of objectionable laws and policies. Almost as if a dam had broken, there was a sudden rush of developments on three highly contested fronts: (1) the statutory ban on military service by openly gay individuals, (2) the exclusion from federal recognition for lawfully contracted same-sex marriages, and (3) a popularly enacted California state constitutional amendment taking away same-sex marriage rights that had previously been …


Exceptions: The Criminal Law's Illogical Approach To Hiv-Related Aggravated Assaults, Ari Ezra Waldman Jan 2011

Exceptions: The Criminal Law's Illogical Approach To Hiv-Related Aggravated Assaults, Ari Ezra Waldman

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This Article identifies logical and due process errors in HIV-related aggravated assault cases, which usually involve an HIV-positive individual having unprotected sex without disclosing his or her HIV status. While this behavior should not be encouraged, this Article suggests that punishing this conduct through a charge of aggravated assault - which requires a showing that the defendant’s actions were a means likely to cause grievous bodily harm or death - is fraught with fallacies in reasoning and runs afoul of due process. Specifically, some courts use the "rule of thumb" that HIV can possibly be transmitted through bodily fluids as …


New York Recognition Of A Legal Status For Same-Sex Couples: A Rapidly Developing Story, Arthur S. Leonard Jan 2010

New York Recognition Of A Legal Status For Same-Sex Couples: A Rapidly Developing Story, Arthur S. Leonard

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In New York State at the beginning of 2010, same-sex couples cannot get married but can be married. The state’s highest court, the Court of Appeals, construed the state’s marriage law in 2006 to prohibit state officials from issuing marriage licenses to same-sex couples, but said nothing in that decision about whether same-sex couples married outside the state would be considered married when they were in the state. In February 2008, an intermediate appeals court in Rochester ruled that New York’s marriage recognition law supported extending comity to a same-sex marriage performed in Canada, and several other appellate courts have …


Constitutional Law And Values - Version '08 (Not Necessarily And Upgrade), Nadine Strossen Jan 2008

Constitutional Law And Values - Version '08 (Not Necessarily And Upgrade), Nadine Strossen

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The Authoritative Moment: Exploring The Boundaries Of Interpretation In The Recognition Of Queer Families, Kris Franklin Jan 2006

The Authoritative Moment: Exploring The Boundaries Of Interpretation In The Recognition Of Queer Families, Kris Franklin

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This article examines the boundaries of judicial interpretation as courts struggle to define the families formed by lesbians, gay men and transexuals. It compares the jurisprudence of numerous state courts examining queer families in different contexts. The article identifies three interwoven components of judicial reasoning: "lex" reasoning, grounded in the jurisdiction's binding and persuasive law; factual reasoning in which the courts must categorize queer families as analogous to those the law already recognizes or instead as something quite new and distinct; and finally methodological reasoning, in which courts self-consciously examine the boundaries of their own interpretive authority. Showing that in …


The Impact Of International Human Rights Developments On Sexual Minority Rights, Arthur S. Leonard Jan 2005

The Impact Of International Human Rights Developments On Sexual Minority Rights, Arthur S. Leonard

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The Supreme Court's decision in Lawrence v. Texas (2003) marked the first time that tribunal took notice of how foreign and international courts were dealing with the civil rights claims of lesbians and gay men as part of its discussion of American constitutional law. If this evinces a new openness by the Court to looking at such external sources in gay rights cases, what would it find on the major legal issues now facing the LGBT community in the United States? This article summarizes developments abroad on legal recognition of same-sex partners (including for purposes of immigration status) and military …


Limited In Sex, They Dare: Attitudes Toward Issues Of Patient Sexuality, Michael L. Perlin Jan 2005

Limited In Sex, They Dare: Attitudes Toward Issues Of Patient Sexuality, Michael L. Perlin

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The author frequently speaks on issues involving the sexuality rights of persons with mental disabilities who are institutionalized. In this article, he discusses the prevalent attitudes of audience members to these presentations, attitudes ranging from anger to denial to projection to transference/countertransference to fear to expressions of religiosity. In some cases, an important connection is made between the speaker and audience members. The article considers these attitudes and seeks to offer explanations for why this is such a threatening topic to so many listeners.


Not Whistlin' Dixie: Now, More Than Ever, We Need Feminist Law Journals, Carlin Meyer Jan 2003

Not Whistlin' Dixie: Now, More Than Ever, We Need Feminist Law Journals, Carlin Meyer

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The Rhetorics Of Legal Authority Constructing Authoritativeness, The “Ellen Effect,” And The Example Of Sodomy Law., Kris Franklin Jan 2002

The Rhetorics Of Legal Authority Constructing Authoritativeness, The “Ellen Effect,” And The Example Of Sodomy Law., Kris Franklin

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Chronicling A Movement: 20 Years Of Lesbian/Gay Law Notes, Arthur S. Leonard Jan 2000

Chronicling A Movement: 20 Years Of Lesbian/Gay Law Notes, Arthur S. Leonard

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Introduction: A Retrospective On The Lesbian/Gay Law Notes, Arthur S. Leonard Jan 2000

Introduction: A Retrospective On The Lesbian/Gay Law Notes, Arthur S. Leonard

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Women And The Internet, Carlin Meyer Jan 1999

Women And The Internet, Carlin Meyer

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Violence Against Women In South Africa: The Role Of Culture And The Limitations Of The Law, Penelope Andrews Jan 1999

Violence Against Women In South Africa: The Role Of Culture And The Limitations Of The Law, Penelope Andrews

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This paper describes the role of culture in perpetuating violence against women. It does this by contextualizing violence against women in South Africa within the grand project of transformation taking place there, and highlighting the possibilities of fundamental restructuring, with respect to rights and equality for women, when the feminist project intersects with the non-racial project. The paper, therefore, visits a familiar question, namely, the obstacles to transformation when the eradication of racism takes precedence over the elimination of sexism, as it historically has in South Africa. In addition, this paper describes recent attempts by the legislature and courts in …


Foreward (Symposium: Critical Perspectives On Megan’S Law: Protection Vs. Privacy), Nadine Strossen Jan 1997

Foreward (Symposium: Critical Perspectives On Megan’S Law: Protection Vs. Privacy), Nadine Strossen

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Reclaiming Sex From The Pornographers: Cybersexual Possibilities, Carlin Meyer Jan 1995

Reclaiming Sex From The Pornographers: Cybersexual Possibilities, Carlin Meyer

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Sex, Sin, And Women’S Liberation: Against Porn-Suppression., Carlin Meyer Jan 1994

Sex, Sin, And Women’S Liberation: Against Porn-Suppression., Carlin Meyer

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Hospitalized Patients And The Right To Sexual Interaction: Beyond The Last Frontier, Michael L. Perlin Jan 1994

Hospitalized Patients And The Right To Sexual Interaction: Beyond The Last Frontier, Michael L. Perlin

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Feminism, Work And Sex: Returning To The Gates, Carlin Meyer Jan 1994

Feminism, Work And Sex: Returning To The Gates, Carlin Meyer

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Sexual Orientation And The Workplace: A Rapidly Developing Field, Arthur S. Leonard Jan 1993

Sexual Orientation And The Workplace: A Rapidly Developing Field, Arthur S. Leonard

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The (Queer) Revolution Will Not Be Liberalized, Sarah E. Chinn, Kris Franklin Jan 1993

The (Queer) Revolution Will Not Be Liberalized, Sarah E. Chinn, Kris Franklin

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Decriminalizing Prostitution: Liberation Or Dehumanization?, Carlin Meyer Jan 1993

Decriminalizing Prostitution: Liberation Or Dehumanization?, Carlin Meyer

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Watkins V. United States Army And The Employment Rights Of Lesbians And Gay Men, Arthur S. Leonard Jan 1989

Watkins V. United States Army And The Employment Rights Of Lesbians And Gay Men, Arthur S. Leonard

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Book Review Of Sexual Politics, Sexual Communities: The Making Of A Homosexual Minority In The United States 1940–1970, By John D’Emilio, Arthur S. Leonard Jan 1983

Book Review Of Sexual Politics, Sexual Communities: The Making Of A Homosexual Minority In The United States 1940–1970, By John D’Emilio, Arthur S. Leonard

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The Equal Protection Of Women In Reference To Nationality And Freedom Of Movement, Lung-Chu Chen Jan 1975

The Equal Protection Of Women In Reference To Nationality And Freedom Of Movement, Lung-Chu Chen

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