Across the Nation.New Ipswich, N.H. High school teacher Penny Culliton, who was fired a decade ago for assigning gay-themed books to her classes, in March became the target of a fresh complaint from a parent who objected to her use of the award-winning book Dangerous Angels by Francesca Lia Block. Pittsburgh, Pa. In a decision that could protect the rights of all parents regardless of sexual orientation sexual orientation n. The direction of one's sexual interest toward members of the same, opposite, or both sexes, especially a direction seen to be dictated by physiologic rather than sociologic forces. , a state appeals court ruled on March 28 that a lesbian mother could not prevent her former partner from seeing the child they raised together. Ogden, Utah Ogden is the county seat of Weber County,GR6 Utah, United States. A 2006 estimate placed its population at 78,086. The city served as a major railway hub through much of its history, and still handles a great deal of freight rail traffic which makes it a Utah State University Utah State University, mainly at Logan; coeducational; land-grant and state supported; chartered 1888, opened 1890. It publishes Utah Science, Western Historical Quarterly, and Western American Literary Journal. attorney Craig Simper sim·per v. sim·pered, sim·per·ing, sim·pers v.intr. To smile in a silly, self-conscious, often coy manner. v.tr. on March 28 concluded that the state's recently approved constitutional ban on same-sex marriage likely prohibits extending the school's medical benefits to employees' same-sex domestic partners. Birmingham, Ala. U.S. district court judge and Yale Law School Yale Law School, or YLS, is the law school of Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut. Established in 1843, the school offers the J.D., LL.M., J.S.D., and M.S.L. degrees in law. It also hosts visiting scholars and several legal research centers. graduate William M. Acker Jr. announced in March that he would not consider Yale law students for clerkships to protest the university's ban on military recruiters. The school bans recruitment because of the military's antigay policy. |
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