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Legal Briefs: This Week in Law

by Phoebe Petrovic

  • January 19, 2015

This week in the law: Uber in trouble again, high school students taking immigration test, the CIA okays its agents, and same-sex on the docket.

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Legal Briefs: What’s Happening in the Law?

by Life of the Law

  • September 15, 2014

Each week, we bring you updates on the legal world.  Looking ahead… The Ray Rice legal drama has been brewing for a bit now, but it looks like it’s not over yet. Rice and his lawyers…

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#WhyIStayed & #WhyILeft

by Olivia Q.

  • September 9, 2014

The day my girlfriend and I broke up for the fifth and final time was the day Barack Obama announced that he supported gay marriage. I let out a laugh that was more like a…

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An Open Letter to the President

by Katherine Thompson

  • February 18, 2013

Under current law–the Defense of Marriage Act, or DOMA–the federal government does not recognize same-sex marriage regardless of whether a couple is married under state law. That a same-sex couple married in Iowa, for example,…

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