Rev. Mark Hughes, executive director of the Vermont Racial Justice Alliance, told lawmakers that Proposal 4 is “urgently needed” to advance protections to every resident in Vermont given “emerging ...

Several cities across the United States have begun to break new ground in recent years by legally recognizing polyamorous ...

The Equal Protection Clause is the last section of the Fourteenth Amendment of the U.S. Constitution; it says that no state can “deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the ...

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The Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment is exactly like a similar provision in the Fifth Amendment, which only restricts the federal government. It states that no person shall be “deprived ...

The Supreme Court’s decision today that the race-conscious admissions programs as practiced at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and Harvard—the nation’s oldest public and private ...

A clause in the U.S. Constitution that says that no state shall “deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.” This “equal protection clause” has been used to challenge ...

The Eighth Circuit sticks with its earlier views on the subject, but earlier this year the Tenth Circuit departed from the majority view on the subject. Today's case is Free the Nipple, Inc. v. City ...