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NAACP?s Payton Says Now Is Time To Bolster Equal Rights Amendment
The ACS Blog: “Following a recent panel discussion, co-hosted by ACS, regarding the evolution of the Civil War or Reconstruction Amendments, Payton talked with ACS about the hope for reviving the 14th Amendment?s protection of equal rights for all Americans...

NAACP's Payton Says Now Is Time To Bolster Equal Rights Amendment
John Payton, president and director-counsel of the NAACP Legal Defense Fund, in an interview with ACS, says the federal cases that “anchor” our understanding of the Constitution’s 14th Amendment should be relegated to a “little pigeonhole in the past...

Legal Analysis of the Twin Efforts to Revive the Equal Rights Amendment
         Supporters of the Equal Rights Amendment are mounting a two-pronged effort to resurrect that proposal and get it ratified to the Constitution...

Colorado For Equal Rights Applauds Focus on the Family?s Support of Personhood Amendment 48
The Christian Newswire carries the Colorado for Equal Rights report that begins: “Focus on the Family on Tuesday encouraged Colorado voters to support and vote for the Colorado for Equal Rights Personhood Amendment...

Rescinded Contract for Boat Mooring Rights Did Not Violate Due Process, Equal Protection or First Amendment
Plaintiffs submitted a bid to acquire the license to operate the mooring and tender service for the town of Huntington, New York...

Might Judge Sotomayor think the Second Amendment "deserves to be on equal footing with the First Amendment" for ex-cons?
The question in title of this post is drawn from a line from this commentary at FOXNews authored by Ken Blackwell and Ken Klukowski, which carries the headline "Sotomayor, Civil Rights and Guns...

Can a former employee use photographs of jobs completed whie working for me in marketing material for a new business?
There are several issues here

1. Sub contractor started up a compe...

My husband's Grandmother died intestate. She had one sole heir, my husband's Father. He and his wife kept paying taxes on the property.Then he also died intestate. Now, my Mother-in-law wants to sell this property. Accor
Based on my research, his wife would have a 1/3 interest in the property. The ot...

What rights does a father have when a woman waits 13 years to tell a man he is a father & he missed out on the growing up of that child?
Actually, he has as much right as she to request a paternity test, plus he can f...

My exwife got a judgement aganst me. years latter i remarried and bought a home i told my new wife that I was not sure about owning real property so soon . our realtor told us I could file a quick claim deed. i sign it t
A quick claim deed has "No warranties" to anything. Your real estate a...

I want to know if its legal for a healthcare provider to tell you something is going to be covered and when it isn't charge you; after you specifically said you couldn't afford it?
I'm not going to sugar coat anything. It's a sad world we live in toda...