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Transgender Athlete Files Suit Against Fitness Competition Sponsor
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An athlete who was born a man but has lived as a woman since gender reassignment surgery in 2006 is suing the fitness company CrossFit. So reports CNN.
Read more...Mom May Exclude Dad From Delivery Room: NJ Court
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Deciding a case between estranged, unmarried parents, a New Jersey Superior Court judge has held that a mother may exclude her baby’s father from the delivery room when she is in labor. So reports the South Jersey Times.
Read more...Wrongfully Convicted Man Walks Free After 30 Years in Jail
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A 64-year-old black man from Louisiana who had been on death row for almost 30 years as a result of a murder conviction handed down by an all white jury was set free last week. So reports The Atlantic.
Read more...Drunk Gambler Sues Casino To Recover Losses
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A California man is suing a Las Vegas casino to keep from having to pay the $500,000 he lost while gambling there intoxicated. So reports the Associated Press.
Read more...Inmate Beard Policy to Be Decided by Supreme Court
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The U.S. Supreme Court has agreed to hear the appeal of an Eighth Circuit decision holding that Arkansas prison officials’ policy prohibiting inmates from growing beards was warranted. So says The New York Times.
Read more...Inmate Beard Policy to Be Decided by Supreme Court
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The U.S. Supreme Court has agreed to hear the appeal of an Eighth Circuit decision holding that Arkansas prison officials’ policy prohibiting inmates from growing beards was warranted. So says The New York Times.
Read more...Teen’s Facebook Post Costs Dad $80,000
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A Florida teen’s obnoxious Facebook post cost her father $80,000 that he was set to receive in a settlement. The father had filed an age discrimination suit against the prep school where he once worked as a headmaster. So reports the Miami Herald.
Read more...Mass. Makes It Illegal to Sneak 'Upskirt' Pics
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Massachusetts lawmakers last week criminalized “upskirting,” the practice of photographing or recording video of a person’s private parts under or around that person’s clothing, such as down a blouse or up a skirt. So reports CNN.
Read more...Rapper Da Brat To Pay $6.4 Million For Attacking Cheerleader
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After serving almost three years in prison for attacking former Falcons cheerleader Shayla Stevens with a rum bottle in a 2007 night club incident, the rapper known as Da Brat was recently ordered to pay Stevens $3.7 million in compensatory damages and $2.7 million in punitive damages by the Georgia jury who heard Stevens’s civil case against her. So reports the Atlanta Journal-Constitution.
Read more...NJ Teen Living With Friends Sues Parents For Support Payments
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Are non-divorced parents obligated to pay for their children's college education and provide other financial support after the child has left home?
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