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The Iowa House Human Resources Committee on Tuesday approved SF427 , a bill to extend the state's civil rights protections to gays and lesbians. The bill, which still awaits passage by the full Iowa House ,...

The Iowa Senate on Tuesday passed SF427 , extending the state's civil rights protections to gay and lesbians. The controversial legislation would officially add gender identity and sexual orientation to the list of groups protected from discrimination...

Hawaii legislators have shelved a proposal to create civil unions for same-sex couples, indicating that the state legislature did not have enough votes to pass the law. The state House Judiciary Committee...

Former CIA executive director Kyle "Dusty" Foggo and defense contractor Brent Wilkes were indicted by a grand jury Tuesday on charges connected with the case of former Congressman Randy "Duke" Cunningham . The FBI...

Doe v. Rabago, US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, December 5, 2006 [ruling that the Kamehameha Schools, a private school that accepts no federal funding, can utilize as admissions policy that gives priority to Native Hawaiian students before...

The US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit ruled Tuesday that the Kamehameha Schools , a private school that accepts no federal funding, can utilize an admissions policy that gives priority to...

US Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy said that the US is failing to adequately spread the positive aspects of the "Western idea of democracy," in an address to the American Bar Association at...

JURIST Guest Columnist Lynn Wardle of J. Reuben Clark School of Law at Brigham Young University says that the 2006 House and Senate votes on the Federal Marriage Protection Amendment may not have been sufficient to send the amendment to...

The US Senate on Thursday rejected a bill that would have given Native Hawaiians self-governance powers in line with those accorded to Native Americans. The Native Hawaiian Government Reorganization Act ...

The US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit has granted a rehearing in a case challenging the native-only admissions policy of a Hawaiian school. In August 2005, the Ninth Circuit ruled [PDF opinion;...