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Same-Sex Marriage Case Appears to Divide Fourth Circuit

Virginia is not the only state with a stake in the same-sex marriage arguments heard on Tuesday before a federal appellate panel. If Virginia's ban goes, so too may bans in North Carolina, South Carolina and West Virginia.
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Daily Report Online

Boggs, on Defensive, Shifts Stances on Flag, Abortion and Gay Marriage

In the face of probing questions about his conservative voting record as a state legislator, Georgia Court of Appeals Judge Michael Boggs today disavowed some of his more controversial stances in his effort to secure Senate confirmation to the U.S. District Court in Atlanta.
4 minute read

Texas Lawyer

Letter from the Editor

This year commemorates the 50th anniversary of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. Texans were an integral part of the act, and the legislation continues to influence Texas law and lawyers.
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New York Law Journal

Jessup v. Armor Corr. Health Service, Inc.

Inmate's Complaint Over Epilepsy Medication's Improper Administration Dismissed Sua Sponte
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Texas Lawyer

What Is It Like to Practice as an African-American Attorney in 2014?

W J. Durham was a dapper gentleman, scholarly and polite, who began his practice in Sherman 1926 and later practiced in Dallas in the 1940s, '50s and '60s. At one point, his law office was burned to the ground.
5 minute read

Texas Lawyer

The Content of his Character: 1949 Law Grad Helped Change Texas

L. Clifford Davis survived a segregated courthouse, talked strategy with Thurgood Marshall and still works five days a week.
11 minute read

Texas Lawyer

An Employer's Lawyer Looks Back

Ask a lawyer of a certain vintage and you'll hear at least one story about some at a deposition confusing a female lawyer with the court reporter.
5 minute read

Texas Lawyer

An Answer to Prayer: Securing Religious Rights at the Supreme Court

Importantly, Kennedy's opinion repudiated dictum from the Supreme Court's opinion in County of Allegheny v. ACLU (1989), which suggested "that legislative prayer must be generic or nonsectarian."
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Texas Lawyer

When the Whites-Only Sign Came Down at Big Law

Jim Plummer notes that many African-American lawyers in Houston at the time, including his father, the late Matthew Plummer Sr., were members of the Houston Lawyers Association, which was formed in 1955 because they could not join the Houston Bar Association.
7 minute read

The Recorder

Green v. City & County of San Francisco

6 minute read

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