Fornication ruling [GA SC]

Fornication ruling [GA SC]

January 13, 2003 09:57:00 am

In re J.M., Georgia Supreme Court, January 13, 2003 [striking down Georgia's 1833 anti-fornication law]. Read the opinion here [PDF]. Reported in JURIST's Paper Chase here.

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On May 31, 1910, the Union of South Africa was created. Exactly fifty-one years later in 1961, the Republic of South Africa was born.

Learn more about the history of South Africa from the country's government.

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On May 31, 1921, the Tulsa race riot was touched off after a black elevator operator was alleged to have attacked a white woman in an elevator in downtown Tulsa. Armed whites attacked, burned and looted the local black business community of Greenwood in violence that killed more than 300 people and destroyed more than 1200 homes.

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