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ACLU Seeks Public Records To Determine Constitutionality Of Foreclosure Proceedings In Florida

Judge Slams City for FDNY Refusal to Hire New Firefighters

  • By: Center for Constitutional Rights
  • 10/19/2010
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EPA Moving Forward to Save Waters and Protect Local Community From Harm

Southern Poverty Law Center Files Federal Lawsuit Targeting State-Funded Juvenile Facility in Florida

  • By: Southern Poverty Law Center
  • 10/08/2010
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New Minor Consent Mental Health Law to Take Effect January 2011

  • By: National Center for Youth Law
  • 10/07/2010
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Civil Rights Groups Call for Moratorium on Home Foreclosures

  • By: Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights
  • 10/07/2010
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Saddled with Debt, Indigent Defendants Face New Paths Back to Prison

  • By: Brennan Center for Justice
  • 10/04/2010
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ACLU Staff Sends Hopeful Video Message To Bullied LGBT Youth

Statement by Wade Henderson on Stalled Judicial Nominations and the Senate Recess

  • By: Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights
  • 10/01/2010
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U.N. Report Highlights Need For U.S. Civil And Human Rights Commission

Environmental Groups Intervene to Defend U.S. EPA Air Rules

Connecticut Must Complete Court-Ordered Child Welfare Reform, Federal Judge Rules

ACLU Asks Kentucky Zoning Board To Reverse Improper Permit Denial For Muslim Prayer Space

MALDEF'S President and General Counsel Responds to Senate Vote on DREAM Act

Sierra Club and Earthjustice Sue U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to Uphold Clean Air in Texas

Former Detainees Join Federal Court Challenge to Post-9/11 Racial Profiling and Abuse of Muslim, Arab and South Asian Men

  • By: Center for Constitutional Rights
  • 09/13/2010
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Hazleton, PA Anti-Immigrant Law Is Unconstitutional, Federal Appeals Court Rules

Federal Court Orders Patriot Coal to Pay $45 Million to Treat Toxic Selenium from W. Va. Coal Mines, Holds Patriot in Contempt

BX Borough President Ruben Diaz Jr., Assemblymember Linda Rosenthal, New York Communities for Change & NYLPI Call for NYC Dept of Education to Remove Toxic PCBs from Classrooms

Lambda Legal and HIV-Positive Retiree Settle Lawsuit Against North Little Rock Assisted Living Facility

First Ever Domestic Workers Bill of Rights Becomes Law

VA eases rules allowing Vietnam vets to get treatment for Agent Orange exposure

For Katrina’s Fifth Anniversary, NCJW Calls for Restoration of Gulf Coast

  • By: National Council of Jewish Women
  • 08/27/2010
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NSCLC Says Virginia Health Care Ruling is Purely Procedural

5 Communities Re-examine Use of Police to Intervene in Mental Health Crises

  • By: Bazelon Center for Mental Health Law
  • 07/06/2010
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ACLU Asks Alabama Court To Protect The Rights Of Pregnant Women

  • By: American Civil Liberties Union
  • 07/06/2010
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Americans Win Protection from Toxic Air Pollution

Rights Group Urges Congress to Lift Unconstitutional Cuba Travel Ban

  • By: Center for Constitutional Rights
  • 06/30/2010
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PR Government Agrees to Delay Birth Certificate Law

U.S. Supreme Court Upholds Law School Non-Discrimination Policy: Lambda Legal Welcomes the Decision

Unequal Access to Citizenship for Muslims

Court Lifts Moratorium, Green Lights More Deepwater Drilling in the Gulf

Department of Education Clarifies ‘Battered Immigrants-Qualified Aliens’ as Eligible for Financial Aid

Report Highlights How Labor Law Anomaly Prevents FedEx Express Ground Transportation Employees from Being Represented by a Union

  • By: The Leadership Conference of Civil and Human Rights
  • 06/15/2010
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Canadian RCMP Conducting Criminal Investigation of U.S. and Syrian Officials for Maher Arar's Rendition to Torture

  • By: Center for Constitutional Rights
  • 06/14/2010
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Del Monte Settlement Benefits Migrant Workers

  • By: Southern Poverty Law Center
  • 06/11/2010
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Victory for Transgender People in Wisconsin Prisons

One is a Lonely Number on the Eighth Circuit

  • By: National Women's Law Center
  • 06/02/2010
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NAACP LDF Releases Report on Prison-Based Gerrymandering

  • By: NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund
  • 06/01/2010
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California Supreme Court Set To Address Workers’ Meal And Rest Break Rights

  • By: Workplace Fairness
  • 05/27/2010
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South Dakota Agrees To Reinstate American Indian Voters Unlawfully Removed From Rolls

Canada Asserts Canadian Rendition Victim Maher Arar’s Case Not a Threat to Diplomatic Relations As U.S. Government Has Claimed

  • By: Center for Constitutional Rights
  • 05/24/2010
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Statement by Nancy Zirkin on Historic Senate Passage of Financial Reform Bill

  • By: The Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights
  • 05/20/2010
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Fishermen and Conservationists Sue U.S. Department of Interior For Illegal Waivers of Blowout and Spill Response Planning in Gulf of Mexico Disaster

Day Laborer Organizations Challenge Unconstitutional Anti-Immigrant Ordinance in Oyster Bay

Obama Administration Sides with Bush DOJ, Asks Supreme Court to Keep Canadian Rendition Victim Maher Arar from His Day in Court

  • By: Center for Constitutional Rights
  • 05/13/2010
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MALDEF Files Class Action Suit Against Ottawa County For Refusing Michigan Latino Couple the Fundamental Right to Marry

  • By: Mexican American Legal Defense & Education Fund
  • 05/11/2010
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SPLC Lawsuit Ends 'Shockingly Inhumane' Abuses of Children in Mississippi

  • By: Southern Poverty Law Center
  • 05/11/2010
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Decision That Backs Parenting Rights for Non-Biological Mother Lauded by Law School Clinic

  • By: Columbia Law School
  • 05/04/2010
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Local and National Groups Stand Firmly Against Offshore Drilling

Truck Driver Wins Gender Discrimination Case In Fourth Circuit

House Introduces Significant Criminal Justice Legislation

AARP Bulletin Releases New Comprehensive User's Guide to Health Care Reform

Statement of Wade Henderson on Gov. Jan Brewer’s Signing of Arizona Anti-Immigration Bill

  • By: The Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights
  • 04/23/2010
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NCJW Marks Equal Pay Day, Calls for Passage of Paycheck Fairness Act

  • By: National Council of Jewish Women
  • 04/20/2010
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Groups Report to UN on US Human Rights Failure to Hold Corporations Accountable for Human Trafficking, Child Labor, Torture

  • By: Center for Constitutional Rights
  • 04/19/2010
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Sentenced to Stigma - Segregation of HIV-Positive Prisoners in Alabama and South Carolina

  • By: American Civil Liberties Union
  • 04/14/2010
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EPA Hears Call For Cleaner Florida Waters

U.S. Census Bureau Sued for Hiring Discrimination, According to Outten & Golden LLP and Co-Counsel

  • By: Center for Constitutional Rights
  • 04/13/2010
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New Bureau of Prisons Rule Discloses Policies and Conditions in Experimental Segregation Units

  • By: Center for Constitutional Rights
  • 04/06/2010
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Federal Court Holds DC Mayor Fenty in Contempt for Child Welfare Failings; District Must Fully Implement Reforms

More Than 200,000 to Lose Jobless Benefits Monday With Congress Out

Who Owns Your Genes? You Do.

  • By: American Civil Liberties Union
  • 03/30/2010
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Lawyers' Committee and Co-Counsel File Motion for Preliminary Injunction in Long Island Exclusionary Zoning Fair Housing Case

  • By: Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law
  • 03/26/2010
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AIDS Discrimination Victim Gets New Trial

  • By: Workplace Fairness
  • 03/25/2010
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Cash Register Justice

  • By: Brennan Center for Justice
  • 03/23/2010
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Fifth Circuit Remands English Language Learner Case to Determine Cause of "Alarming" Failure Rate of Students

Women Guestworkers Challenge Seafood Company's Gender-Based Job Restrictions

Georgia Child Welfare Practices May Risk Kids’ Lives, Children’s Rights Advocates Charge in Federal Court

SPLC Sues Mississippi Over Mental Health System for Children on Medicaid

  • By: Southern Poverty Law Center
  • 03/10/2010
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NAACP Applauds US Secretary Duncan’s Speech Affirming Renewed Commitment to Quality Education and Civil Rights Protections

Congressional Delegation Lays Wreath at Civil Rights Memorial

  • By: Southern Poverty Law Center
  • 03/07/2010
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Grammy Award Winner Alicia Keys and Comedian Margaret Cho Join the National Campaign to Restore Civil Rights' 2010 Youth Contest

  • By: National Campaign to Restore Civil Rights
  • 03/02/2010
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MALDEF Enters Statewide Lawsuit to Address Inadequate Funding for English Learners and At-Risk Students

Sex-Segregated Education on Trial Today

New York Lawyers for the Public Interest Lauds Rite Aid For Improving Access for the Deaf and Hearing-Impaired

  • By: New York Lawyers for the Public Interest
  • 02/24/2010
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SPLC Seeks Justice in Police Shooting of Elderly Louisiana Man

  • By: Southern Poverty Law Center
  • 02/14/2010
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Kaiser Sued For Discrimination Against Children With Autism; Accused Of “Sham Excuses” For Refusal To Treat Disabled Children

  • By: Disability Rights Advocates
  • 02/11/2010
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Lawsuit to Reform Harmful Oklahoma Child Welfare System May Proceed as Class Action, Federal Appeals Court Rules

Kucinich Challenges Potential Extrajudicial Killing of Americans

MALDEF, ACLU/SC and NDLON File Lawsuit Challenging City of Costa Mesa's Anti-Solicitation Ordinance

Civil Rights Coalition Launches Second Run of Census Transit System PSAs Targeted at Hard-to-Count Communities

  • By: The Leadership Conference Education Fund
  • 02/01/2010
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LEGENDARY HISTORIAN HOWARD ZINN DIES AT 87

Alliance for Justice Decries Republican Obstruction of Joseph Greenaway

  • By: Alliance for Justice
  • 01/27/2010
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Happy Anniversary, Roe!

Obama Administration Calls for Tougher Wall Street Rules

New Report Shows Atlanta Backsliding on Child Welfare Reforms, Threatening Abused and Neglected Kids’ Safety

Judiciary Republicans Seek to Delay Johnsen Confirmation

  • By: People for the American Way
  • 01/14/2010
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Court Forces Bed Rest on Pregnant Woman

Historic Victory: Court Rules FDNY Hiring Practices Intentionally Discriminated on the Basis of Race for Decades

  • By: Center for Constitutional Rights
  • 01/13/2010
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Former Detainees Boumediene and Deghayes Address President Obama on Guantánamo Anniversary

  • By: Center for Constitutional Rights
  • 01/11/2010
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Civil Rights Groups Raise Concerns about Final Health Care Bill

No Joke: Nassau County Town Outlaws "Waving While Latino"

Disability Groups Win Landmark Case Affirming Rights of People with Mental Disabilities in State-Funded Adult Homes

  • By: Judge David L. Bazelon Center for Mental Health Law
  • 09/09/2009
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NAACP CONTINUES ITS SUPPORT OF VAN JONES AND WHITE HOUSE GREEN JOBS INITIATIVE

  • By: NAACP Legal Defense Fund
  • 09/04/2009
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Climate of Fear: Latino Immigrants in Suffolk County, N.Y.

  • By: Southern Poverty Law Center
  • 09/02/2009
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Don't Leave Young Latinas Behind in the Classroom or on the Field

  • By: National Women's Law Center
  • 08/31/2009
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Public Justice Wins Second Major Decision Requiring Coal Mine Cleanups

WOMEN'S EQUALITY DAY, 2009

  • By: Office of the Press Secretary, THE WHITE HOUSE
  • 08/26/2009
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Trumped-Up Reasons For Termination Can Prove Retaliatory Discharge

  • By: Workplace Fairness
  • 08/21/2009
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Native, Green Groups Oppose State Department Dirty Pipeline Permit: Court challenge is being prepared to overturn decision

Landmark Housing Desegregation Victory

  • By: Anti-Discrimination Center
  • 08/17/2009
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New Study Claims Women Responsible for Glass Ceiling – What?

  • By: National Women's Law Center
  • 08/12/2009
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Judge Denies Motion to Dismiss in Lambda Legal’s Case of Evicted HIV-Positive Retired Minister

Advocates Appeal Rhode Island Decision Barring Children from Seeking Child Welfare Reform in Federal Court

President Obama Nominates Edward M. Chen for Judge, U.S. District Court, Northern California

  • By: Equal Justice Society
  • 08/07/2009
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Judge Sotomayor's Confirmation to Supreme Court is Historic Moment for People with Disabilities

  • By: The Bazelon Center for Mental Health Law
  • 08/06/2009
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Bronx Mother to sue over toxic caulk in NYC schools

Federal Court Upholds Rights of People with Mental Illness in Adult Homes

Judge Affirms Plaintiff Class of Foster Children with Disabilities

Supreme Court Ruling Leaves in Place Core Provision of the Voting Rights Act

Berkeley's Plan to Promote Diversity in Schools Stands

NAACP Legal Defense Fund Files Brief in Challenge to Use of Race in University Enrollment

Supreme Court Will Not Hear Mumia Abu-Jamal's Claim of Racial Discrimination in Jury Selection

NAACP Legal Defense Fund Files Supreme Court Brief Supporting Quality Education for all Arizona Students

MALDEF Congratulates President-Elect Obama and Commits to Working with Transition Team

FORMER CHICAGO POLICE COMMANDER JON BURGE ARRESTED ON CHARGES RELATING TO TORTURE OF OVER 100 AFRICAN AMERICANS

  • By: People's Law Office
  • 10/21/2008
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Study Conducted by Princeton University Expert for Rutgers-Newark Law School Shows That 10,000 NJ Voting Machines Are Very Vulnerable to Tampering

  • By: Rutgers-Newark Law School
  • 10/17/2008
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MALDEF Advocates For Latinos On Economic Recovery Legislation Final Bill Provides Minimal Protections for Latino Homeowners

APPEAL TO BE HEARD TODAY IN AUSTIN COURT OF APPEALS ON LANDMARK VOTING RIGHTS CASE

  • By: TEXAS CIVIL RIGHTS PROJECT
  • 10/08/2008
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New HHS Rule Changes List of Diseases Barring Travel to the US, but Does Not Remove HIV

  • By: Immigration Equality
  • 10/08/2008
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Tamez Honored by Texas Civil Rights Project

  • By: The Texas Civil Rights Project
  • 10/07/2008
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Tamez Honored by Texas Civil Rights Project

  • By: The Texas Civil Rights Project
  • 10/07/2008
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Muslim Inmate Loses Supreme Court Case Over Koran, Prayer Rug

Justices Indicate They May Uphold Voter ID Rules

  • By: The New York Times
  • 01/10/2008
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Massachusetts Sees Nearly 300,000 Uninsured Enroll for Coverage Under Health Care Law

  • By: Kaiser Daily Health Report
  • 12/07/2007
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C.I.A. Admits It Destroyed Tapes of Harsh Interrogations

  • By: The New York Times
  • 12/06/2007
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Justice Dept. Numbers Show Prison Trends

  • By: The New York Times
  • 12/06/2007
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Almost Half of U.S. Residents Support Providing Emergency Care for Immigrants, Poll Finds

  • By: Kaiser Daily Health Policy Report
  • 12/06/2007
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US Home Foreclosures Hit Record High

  • By: The Washington Post
  • 12/06/2007
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White House Signals That It Might Veto Energy Bill

  • By: The Washington Post
  • 12/04/2007
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Court: Prison Program Unconstitutional

Justices Express Skepticism in a Discrimination Case

  • By: The New York Times
  • 12/03/2007
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Alabama senator proposes English only driver test

Rights for embryos proposed

  • By: The Chicago Tribune
  • 12/03/2007
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A New Push to Roll Back ‘Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell’

  • By: The New York Times
  • 11/30/2007
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E.P.A. Is Sued by 12 States Over Reports on Chemicals

  • By: The New York Times
  • 11/29/2007
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Civil Libertarians Warn of ‘Patriot Act Lite’

State health plan for children OK'd

  • By: Appleton Post-Crescent
  • 11/28/2007
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Climate change threatens unprecedented human development reversals

  • By: UN Development Programme
  • 11/27/2007
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Court won't review San Diego home hunts

  • By: Seattle Post-Intelligencer
  • 11/26/2007
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Juvenile offenders start life over with a crochet hook

  • By: The Christian Science Monitor
  • 11/21/2007
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Gitmo Policy Faces Another Supreme Court Test

Paperwork logjam threatens 2008 voting for immigrants

Supreme Court Agrees to Hear Gun Control Case

  • By: The New York Times
  • 11/20/2007
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S.F. focuses on racial, cultural groups in pioneering health plan

  • By: The San Francisco Chronicle
  • 11/18/2007
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Children without health insurance lose out on learning at school

  • By: McClatchy Newspapers
  • 11/18/2007
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Police Shoot Unarmed 18-Year-Old Black Man in Brooklyn Twenty Times

Homophobic Surgeon General Nominee Reveals Bush's Plan to Recess Appoint Him

ID Cards for Residents Pass a Vote in California

  • By: The New York Times
  • 11/14/2007
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Emissions pact wins backing

  • By: Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
  • 11/14/2007
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Black Pastor Comes Out of the Closet, His Congregation Kicks Him Out of the Church

Bush Vetoes Health and Education Bill, Signs Huge Pentagon Funding Increase

U.S. Falls to No. 15 in Average Worker Income

Intel Official: Expect Less Privacy

California's unorthodox civil rights pioneer

  • By: The Los Angeles Times
  • 11/12/2007
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Abstinence Only Fails While Comprehensive Sex Education Proves Effective

  • By: Feminist Majority Foundation
  • 11/09/2007
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Health insurer tied bonuses to dropping sick policyholders

  • By: The Los Angeles Times
  • 11/09/2007
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Mukasey Wins Vote in Senate, Despite Doubts

  • By: The New York Times
  • 11/09/2007
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Iraq veteran healthcare could top $650b

Lawmakers Criticize FEMA's Handling of Hazards Posed by Trailers

  • By: The Washington Post
  • 11/09/2007
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Healthcare initiative reaches out

Fought for America? Bush Still Won't Give You Health Care

POLL: Support for Civil Unions Rises, Yet Sharp Divisions Remain

Bush Turns Civil Rights Commission Into ‘Conservative Rights’ Commission

'Don't ask, don't tell' before appeals court

  • By: The Seattle Post-Intelligencer
  • 11/06/2007
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Lawsuit: State discriminated against blacks with insurance choice

  • By: The Lincoln Journal-Star
  • 11/05/2007
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Winter-Heating Crisis Looms

  • By: The Wall Street Journal
  • 11/05/2007
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Landmark Katrina Lawsuit Against State Farm Begins

Developer Would Include Low-Cost Units in East Side Towers

  • By: The New York Times
  • 11/05/2007
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Democratic Defections Clear Path For Mukasey

  • By: The Washington Post
  • 11/03/2007
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Toxins Threaten to Uproot Entire Town

47 million Americans lack health insurance: report

Court Gives Nehemiah Ray of Hope: Feds Move to End Down Payment 'Gifts' Delayed

Supreme Imbalance: Of Liberals and Conservatives

  • By: The Huffington Post
  • 10/31/2007
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Governors sign emissions pact

  • By: The Albany Times-Union
  • 10/30/2007
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Green Schools Offer Healthier Classrooms -- and Might Boost Test Scores

Providing the Structure the Autistic Need for College Life

  • By: The Washington Post
  • 10/29/2007
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Finding Love Abroad, Then Support Online for Visa Quest

  • By: The Washington Post
  • 10/29/2007
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Fake CNN Website Tries to Frame Hispanic Group for Wildfires

Supreme Court to review Exxon Valdez damages

US top court takes up case of Muslim who alleges harassment in prisons, jails over faith

  • By: International Herald Tribune
  • 10/29/2007
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No end in sight for housing slump

  • By: The Christian Science Monitor
  • 10/26/2007
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Kids' health bill passes; veto still looms

U.N. Warns of Rapid Decay of Environment

  • By: The New York Times
  • 10/26/2007
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House to Vote on New Version of Child Health Bill

  • By: The New York Times
  • 10/25/2007
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Deluded Judge Suggests Domestic Violence Victim Wanted to Be Hit

Bill Giving Children Path to Citizenship Blocked

Democratic Senate confirms Bush judicial nominee

Georgia declares state of emergency

Wounded Troops Overwhelming Healthcare System

Repeat Offender Smithfield Sues Union

  • By: Political Affairs Magazine
  • 10/23/2007
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A Court Decision Elbows a Village in Favor of Religious Rights

  • By: The New York Times
  • 10/23/2007
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California plans global warming suit against EPA

  • By: The Daily News Los Angeles
  • 10/22/2007
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College Costs Rising at Double the Inflation Rate

  • By: The New York Times
  • 10/22/2007
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SCHIP children living in limbo

  • By: Bucks County Courier Times
  • 10/22/2007
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A Court Decision Elbows a Village in Favor of Religious Rights

  • By: The New York Times
  • 10/21/2007
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Two Migrant Workers Sue Pilgrim’s

  • By: The Daily News Record
  • 10/20/2007
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Deciphering the State of the Death Penalty

  • By: The New York Times
  • 10/19/2007
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Mukasey disavows torture memo

Failing Schools Strain to Meet U.S. Standard

  • By: The New York Times
  • 10/16/2007
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Lawmakers seek US action in Jena 6 case

  • By: The Associated Press
  • 10/16/2007
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States May Reduce Number of Children In Insurance Plan

  • By: The Washington Post
  • 10/16/2007
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Birth control costs climb at colleges

  • By: The Charlotte Observer
  • 10/15/2007
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New York City Is One of the Biggest Destroyers of the Amazon Rainforest

Verdict triggers strong reactions

  • By: St. Petersburg Times
  • 10/14/2007
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Crackdown Upends Slaughterhouse’s Work Force

  • By: The New York Times
  • 10/12/2007
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Mentally ill shift from care to jails

  • By: The Richmond Times-Dispatch
  • 10/11/2007
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Judge blocks effort to use no-match letters to fire illegal workers

  • By: The San Francisco Chronicle
  • 10/11/2007
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Noose on Door at Columbia Prompts Campus Protest

  • By: The New York Times
  • 10/11/2007
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EPA's record settlement with utility could lead to other deals

  • By: The Christian Science Monitor
  • 10/11/2007
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L.A., homeless advocates reach deal on sidewalk sleeping

  • By: The Los Angeles Times
  • 10/11/2007
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Judge Suspends Key Bush Effort in Immigration

  • By: The New York Times
  • 10/11/2007
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Judge Suspends Key Bush Effort in Immigration

  • By: The New York Times
  • 10/11/2007
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Filing Error Comes at a Bad Time for Federal Judicial Hopeful

  • By: The National Law Journal
  • 10/11/2007
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'Dear Abby' Says She's for Gay Marriage

  • By: The Associated Press
  • 10/10/2007
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Study: Majority of States Bar HIV Tests

  • By: The Associated Press
  • 10/10/2007
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Sexual Stereotypes, Civil Rights and a Suit About Both

  • By: The New York Times
  • 10/10/2007
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Aging and Gay, and Facing Prejudice in Twilight

  • By: The New York Times
  • 10/09/2007
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Going to Court, but Not in Time to Live

  • By: The New York Times
  • 10/08/2007
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Group gets OK on drive for foster, adoption ban

  • By: Northwest Arkansas News Source
  • 10/05/2007
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Executions On Hold Across US

More Doctors in Texas After Malpractice Caps

20 poor families may face eviction

  • By: The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
  • 10/04/2007
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Massive sweep deports hundreds

Texas High Schooler Kicked Out of School for Wearing John Edwards T-Shirt

Bush Vetoes Children's Health Bill, Leaves Millions Of Kids Without Coverage

Supreme Court to Hear Key Civil Rights Cases This Term

Aurora clinic opens amid cheers and protests

Katrina trailers could be gone in 2 years, official says

High Court won't hear two religion cases

Guantanamo inmates' rights to get a fresh look

Justices Begin Work on a Polarizing New Docket

  • By: The New York Times
  • 10/01/2007
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Legacy of School Segregation Endures, Separate but Legal

  • By: The New York Times
  • 09/30/2007
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Bush's EPA Is Pursuing Fewer Polluters

Fight Back Against Giving Kids’ Names to Military

Aging inmates clogging nation's prisons

Surgeon general nominee in limbo

  • By: The Courier-Journal
  • 09/29/2007
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E.E.O.C. Files Lawsuit Against Bloomberg L.P.

  • By: The New York Times
  • 09/28/2007
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Bishops Accept Contraceptive Law

  • By: The Hartford Courant
  • 09/28/2007
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House Cuts Transgender People from Hate Crimes Bill

States watch new U.S. Supreme Court term

Gap in Illness Rates Between Rich and Poor New Yorkers Is Widening, Study Shows

  • By: The New York Times
  • 09/28/2007
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Verizon Reverses Itself on Abortion Messages

State and city healthcare reforms collide with a U.S. law

  • By: The Christian Science Monitor
  • 09/27/2007
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A Turning Point for Health Care

  • By: The Wall Street Journal
  • 09/27/2007
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Judge Rules Provisions in Patriot Act to Be Illegal

  • By: The New York Times
  • 09/27/2007
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Alaskans Warn House Panel about Global Warming’s Effects

  • By: McClatchy Newspapers
  • 09/26/2007
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Towns Rethink Laws Against Illegal Immigrants

  • By: The New York Times
  • 09/26/2007
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High court to decide constitutionality of voter ID law

  • By: The Associated Press
  • 09/25/2007
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Justices to judge constitutionality of lethal injections

  • By: TheAssociated Press
  • 09/25/2007
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An International Court to Try Ecological Crimes?

Employer-Sponsored Health Plan Costs Expected To Increase 8.7% in 2008, According to Study

  • By: Kaiser Daily Health Policy Report
  • 09/25/2007
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U.S. Trying to Block Calif. on Emissions

  • By: The Washington Post
  • 09/25/2007
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Court: Clinic need not tell parents about emergency contraception

State's primary is in hands of top court

The Dissenter

  • By: The New York Times Magazine
  • 09/23/2007
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State abortion clinic rules suspended

New Concerns Emerge About City School Built On Old Industrial Site

Judge Who Chastised Weeping Asylum Seeker is Taken Off Case

  • By: The New York Times
  • 09/20/2007
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Small Louisiana town braces for one of biggest protests since '60s

  • By: The Edmonton Journal
  • 09/20/2007
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Bush Threatens Veto of Child Health Bill

  • By: The New York Times
  • 09/20/2007
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Republican Mayor of San Diego Abandons Homophobia, Embraces Same-Sex Marriage

Civil rights' ONLINE movement

Senate Fails on Habeas Corpus

  • By: The Associated Press
  • 09/19/2007
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Maryland High Court Upholds State Law Banning Gay Marriage

  • By: Capital News Service
  • 09/19/2007
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New Illinois Planned Parenthood Clinic Opening Blocked

  • By: Feminist Daily News Wire
  • 09/18/2007
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Furor Ends in Deanship for Liberal Scholar

  • By: The New York Times
  • 09/18/2007
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Billing in "pro bono" cases is fodder for ethics debate

Alabama Plan Brings Out Cry of Resegregation

  • By: The New York Times
  • 09/17/2007
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San Francisco to Offer Care for Uninsured Adults

  • By: The New York Times
  • 09/14/2007
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N.J.'s Corzine to Defy New Health-Care Rules

  • By: The Washington Post
  • 09/14/2007
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How to build political backing for a better light bulb

Feud Brews Over Katrina Housing Funds

Housing Costs Consumed More of Paychecks in 2006

  • By: The New York Times
  • 09/12/2007
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School Can Resume Lessons in Hebrew

  • By: The New York Times
  • 09/12/2007
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Chemerinsky says UC Irvine rescinds offer to become law school dean

Court rules against automakers in global warming case

  • By: The Detroit Free Press
  • 09/12/2007
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Ground Zero Workers Sue Employers Over Alleged Labor Law Violations, According to Workers' Legal Team

Jury Consulted the Bible, but Death Sentence Stands

  • By: The New York Times
  • 09/11/2007
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Inequities for Poor, Minorities in Medicare’s Private Health Plans, Report Says

  • By: www.seniorjournal.com
  • 09/10/2007
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Prisons Purging Books on Faith From Libraries

  • By: The New York Times
  • 09/10/2007
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New Focus on the Effects of Life Tenure

  • By: The New York Times
  • 09/10/2007
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California Legislature Approves Marriage Bill

Judge Voids F.B.I. Tool Granted by Patriot Act

  • By: The New York Times
  • 09/07/2007
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NYC taxi strike has an unlikely leader

Law firm wants school district to pay $1.8M

D.C. appeals to Supreme Court on gun law

  • By: The Associated Press
  • 09/04/2007
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An Overlooked Problem with Title VII's Protections Against Discrimination: Procedural Obstacles to Invoking the Law

White House eyes 5 potential nominees to replace Gonzales as US attorney general

Suit Takes Aim at Rules on Immigrant Workers

  • By: The New York Times
  • 08/30/2007
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Facing Trial, Government Agrees to Improve Conditions at Immigrant Center

  • By: The New York Times
  • 08/28/2007
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Bush's Bid for a Death Penalty Fast Track

  • By: The Independent UK
  • 08/28/2007
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Spying Program May Be Tested by Terror Case

  • By: The New York Times
  • 08/26/2007
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Op-Ed - An Unjust Judge

  • By: washingtonpost.com
  • 08/21/2007
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34 Congress Members for Impeachment

  • By: AfterDowningStreet.org
  • 08/02/2007
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Judge Voids Ordinance on Illegal Immigrants

Making a Hard-Life Story Open a Door to College

Stacking the Court

Ex-Justice Official Accused of Aiding Scheme to Scratch Minority Voters

  • By: McClatchy Newspapers
  • 06/24/2007
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Officer: Navy Trying to Muzzle Me

New Orleans Deaths up 47%

Restaurants: The New Sweatshops

60% of Physicians Would Limit Number of New Medicare Patients if Scheduled Payment Cut Is Enacted, AMA Survey Finds

  • By: Kaiser Family Foundation
  • 06/05/2007
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Michael Moore Wants to Reform Health Care

Lawmakers Push for Big Subsidies for Coal Process

  • By: The New York Times
  • 05/29/2007
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Rebusting the Air Traffic Controllers

Study Shows Sexual Harassment Targets Women Who Defy Gender Stereotypes

  • By: Feminist Majority Foundation
  • 05/25/2007
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Ruling May Alter NJ's Housing Landscape; Meadowlands Panel Told to Build Afforable Units

Pentagon's Teen Recruiting Methods Would Make Tobacco Companies Proud

Abortion Foes See Validation for New Tactic

  • By: The New York Times
  • 05/22/2007
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Harvard Isn't Enough

Supreme Court: Parents Have Enforceable Rights Under IDEA

  • By: DisabilityLaw.blogspot.com
  • 05/21/2007
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In 4th Decade On High Court, Stevens Stays True to Form

  • By: The Washington Post
  • 05/21/2007
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Why Working Less is Better for the Globe

In South, Pardons for Segregation Era Offenses

Boston Residents Face to Face with Bio-War

  • By: Inter Press Service
  • 05/16/2007
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In Health Care, U.S. Pays More, Gets Less

  • By: The Detroit Free Press
  • 05/16/2007
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Medical Translators Overcome Language Barrier

  • By: The Ocala Star-Banner
  • 05/14/2007
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Couples Enter New Terrain in Push for Gay Marriage in Connecticut

  • By: The New York Times
  • 05/11/2007
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FEMA Provides Toxic Trailers for Hurricane Refugees

Link Between Race, Hazardous-Waste Sites Still Strong

  • By: The Arizona Republic
  • 05/09/2007
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31 States Target Global Warming

Defrauding Seniors

Massachusetts Challenges Federal Energy Rules

  • By: Environmental News Network
  • 05/08/2007
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Hospitals Bill Uninsured Patients More Than Health Insurers, Medicare, Study Finds

A Decade of Race-blind Admissions at Cal

  • By: Yahoo! News/Associated Press
  • 05/07/2007
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Study: Child Abuse, Troop Deployment Linked

Park Service Plans Higher Fees at a Third of the Parks Through 2009

  • By: The Washington Post
  • 05/06/2007
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English-Only Workplaces Spark Lawsuits

Small Businesses’ Premiums Soar After Illness

  • By: The New York Times
  • 05/05/2007
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Murder of Union Organizer Alarms Workers, Activists

  • By: McClatchy Washington Bureau
  • 05/03/2007
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Report Exposes Dangers to Children in Unsafe Housing

Oregon Senate OKs Bill Granting Domestic Partnerships for Same-Sex Couples

Report Assails Wal-Mart Over Unions

  • By: The New York Times
  • 05/01/2007
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Texas Residents Rebel over Toxic Waste

Breakthrough Gay Advances in Past Three Weeks

Race Gap Cited in Traffic Searches

Op-Ed - The Right to Work: Congress Must Protect Gay Men and Lesbians from Workplace Discrimination

  • By: washingtonpost.com
  • 04/28/2007
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OSHA Leaves Worker Safety in Hands of Industry

  • By: The New York Times
  • 04/25/2007
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U.S. Canal Project Raises Tensions with Mexico

  • By: Environmental News Network
  • 04/25/2007
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Fighting the Corporate Theft of Our Water

Spitzer Plans to Introduce Gay Marriage Bill

  • By: The New York Times
  • 04/24/2007
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Women Make Less One Year After College

  • By: The New York Times
  • 04/23/2007
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Healing 27-Year Rift, Yonkers Settles a Fight Over Housing Segregation

  • By: The New York Times
  • 04/19/2007
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The Feminine Face of Poverty

How the Income Tax System Shortchanges Women

Colorado Senate OKs adoption by same-sex couples

  • By: Rocky Mountain News
  • 04/12/2007
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California has most minorities near toxic facilities

Ga. Senior Class To Try Integrated Prom

From L.A., a reinvention of Big Labor

  • By: The Christian Science Monitor
  • 04/10/2007
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Many Returning From Wars Face New Foe in Homelessness

  • By: St. Louis Post Dispatch via KnowledgePlex
  • 04/09/2007
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Wealthy Connecticut School District Starts to Grapple With Racial Imbalance

  • By: The New York Times
  • 04/05/2007
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Walmart Pledges to Stock and Provide EC

  • By: Feminist Majority Foundation
  • 04/05/2007
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Most Pediatricians Do Not Hire Professional Interpreters for Bilingual Patients, Study Finds

  • By: Kaiser Family Foundation
  • 04/03/2007
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Female state leaders double since 2000

Supreme court rules against Bush in global warming case

Ohio won't seek abstinence-only funds

Appeals Court Rules Union Pacific Railroad's Policy To Not Provide Coverage for Contraceptives Not Discriminatory

  • By: Kaiser Family Foundation
  • 03/19/2007
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Who's Uninsured in 2007? It's More than Just the Poor

Leaders of Task Force and Congregation Beth Simchat Torah arrested during 'Don't Ask, Don't Tell' protest at Times Square

  • By: The National Gay and Lesbian Task Force
  • 03/15/2007
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Feinstein: Indian health clinics need federal funds

Fewer employers offer health insurance, report says

For War’s Gravely Injured, Challenge to Find Care

  • By: The New York Times
  • 03/12/2007
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New York Court Upholds Westchester County Executive Order Resepecting Out-of-State Marriages of Same-Sex Couples

Citizens Who Lack Papers Lose Medicaid

  • By: The New York Times
  • 03/11/2007
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U.S. Accuses Walgreen of Racial Bias

  • By: The New York Times
  • 03/08/2007
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City Ousting Transsexual Manager

Patrick Seeks $72M Hike in Health Aid

Increase in State Funding for Anti-Abortion Crisis Pregnancy Centers

Supreme Court's New Tilt Could Put Scalia on a Roll

Student, 16, Finds Allies in His Fight Over Religion

  • By: The New York Times
  • 02/19/2007
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Civil Unions Begin In New Jersey

  • By: The New York Times
  • 02/18/2007
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Jury finds Curtiss-Wright liable in gender bias case

Giuliani Shifts Abortion Speech Gently to Right

  • By: The New York Times
  • 02/13/2007
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Bush's Budget Proposal Endangers Domestic Violence Programs

Gay retirees need protection from discrimination

New Rights in the New Year: Millions of New Yorkers Now Eligible for Financial Aid at Hospitals

  • By: The New York Immigration Coalition
  • 01/11/2007
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Task Force hails passage of New Jersey bill prohibiting discrimination based on gender identity and expression

  • By: The National Gay and Lesbian Task Force
  • 12/14/2006
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