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OSCE Documents

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The Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) grew out of the Conference on Security and Co-operation in Europe (CSCE) in the 1970s which resulted in the Helsinki Final Act. The name was changed in the 1990s at the

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DOMA Ruled Unconstitutional (AGAIN!)

Same Sex Tax

Today Federal District Judge Jeffrey S. White (Northern District, California) ruled that DOMA was unconstitutional as applied to Karen Golinski, a staff attorney at the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. This is a great opinion, explaining

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The Perry Case

Same Sex Tax

The Ninth Circuit handed down its decision in the Perry case on February 7, 2012, finding that Proposition 8 was unconstitutional under the Fourteenth Amendment of the Federal Constitution. Today, the proponents of Proposition 8 filed for rehearing en banc.

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