Category: Law
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Assisted Suicide Now Legal in California
by Jason Stotts The governor of California, Jerry “Moonbeam” Brown, has recently made the right choice to sign into law a bill that makes it legal for physicians to prescribe lethal doses of drugs for people who are terminally ill and still mentally competent to make the choice to die (LA Times). This is a…
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Boy Scouts of America Now Allowing Gay Volunteers
by Jason Stotts Apparently the Boy Scouts of America is now allowing gay men to volunteer to be leaders. The Boy Scouts of America on Monday announced an executive committee has unanimously approved a resolution that would allow openly gay adults to hold leadership positions within the organization. The Boy Scouts of America Executive Committee…
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Marriage Equality
by Jason Stotts Congratulations to all my friends, and people all over the country, who can now have their love recognized by the state and their rights protected under the law.
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Operation Choke Point and the Erosion of Freedom
by Jason Stotts Today is the Fourth of July or American Independence Day. It’s a day when we celebrate the freedoms we have by enjoying spending time with our families, having barbecues, going to parades, and watching fireworks. It’s a day when we should be contemplating what freedom is and what it took to achieve…
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But Who Gets to Keep the Nudes?
by Jason Stotts In a very interesting decision, a German court ruled that you can’t keep nude pictures of your former lovers, if they ask you to delete them. Under this ruling a person can retroactively withdrawal consent from any nude photo. Now, it’ll be interesting to see if the people in question needed to have had…