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leagle.com
Karahn Karol, Petitioner, v. Aetna Better Health, Respondent.
No. 678 C.D. 2011.
Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania.
Submitted: August 5, 2011.
Filed: August 31, 2011.
BEFORE: HONORABLE DAN PELLEGRINI, Judge, HONORABLE P. KEVIN BROB…
sdgln.com – SDGLN Staff
Philadelphia — A discrimination complaint has been settled with the Philadelphia Commission on Human Relations (PCHR) against the City of Philadelphia Department of Human Services (DHS) and the Youth Study Center (YSC), amon…
au.news.yahoo.com – Amanda Banks, Legal Affairs Editor, The West Australian
A landmark case to determine whether female-to-male transsexuals must undergo dangerous penis construction surgery that is not performed in Australia, to legally swap gender…
news.avn.com – By Mark Kernes
Wharton – The wife of a Texas firefighter killed in the line of duty won’t receive any of his death benefits, thanks to the man’s ex-wife, a Texas district court judge and the fundamentalist legal organization, Alliance…
leagle.com
BOUDIN, Circuit Judge.
In 1983, in state court in Massachusetts, Sandy Battista (born “David Megarry”) was convicted of the rape of a child, robbery, and kidnapping. After serving that sentence, Battista was involuntarily committed in …
mysanantonio.com
Dear Mr. Premack: My parents updated their wills and living trust in another state several years before my father died. My mother then moved to Texas, where she will likely reside until her death. My sister and I are their only chil…
prnewswire.com – ACLU of Illinois
Chicago – PRNewswire-USNewswire — Despite promises to the contrary, the Division of Vital Records of the Illinois Department of Public Health has failed to fix its practice of refusing to correct the gender on birt…
latimes.com – By Jack Dolan, Los Angeles Times
Reporting from Vacaville – Lyralisa Stevens, who was born male but lives as a female, is serving 50 years to life in a California prison for killing a San Bernardino County woman with a shotgun in a dis…
irishtimes.com
B (formerly known as M) -v- L
Neutral citation (2009) IEHC 623.
High Court
Judgment was delivered by Mr Justice Henry Abbott on July 17th, 2009.
Judgment
An application for nullity of marriage on the part of the wife…
au.news.yahoo.com – Amanda Banks – Legal Affairs Editor, The West Australian
Two female-to-male transsexuals will take their fight to be legally recognised as men to the High Court next week in a case that will test WA’s gender reassignment laws.
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