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Gory v. Kolver, Constitutional Court of South Africa, November 23, 2006 [ruling that same-sex partners in a permanent relationship have the same inheritance rights as married heterosexual couples, and that a surviving partner could therefore take by intestacy as a...

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Baze v. Rees, Supreme Court of Kentucky, November 22, 2006 [ruling that the state's use of a three-drug lethal injection does not violate the constitution because the prohibition on cruel and unusual punishment "does not require a complete absence of...

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