The latest from Legal Blog Watch
- Professor Turley Heads to Utah to Fight Anti-Polygamy Statute
- Tuesday's Three Burning Legal Questions
| Professor Turley Heads to Utah to Fight Anti-Polygamy Statute | Top |
| Jonathan Turley, the author of one of my favorite blogs and a professor at George Washington University, announced today that he is traveling to Utah to file a lawsuit challenging a state statute criminalizing bigamy and cohabitation. Turley is representing the Brown family, which is presently attracting a good bit of attention as the focal point of a television show about a polygamous family called Sister Wives. In a statement about the imminent filing (Turley plans to file the complaint on Wednesday), Turley said that the case is about protecting citizens' "right to be left alone" and to live according to their own values. He said he views the case as: the strongest factual and legal basis for a challenge to the criminalization of polygamy ever filed in the federal courts. We are not demanding the recognition of polygamous marriage. We are only challenging the right of the state to prosecute people for their private relations and demanding equal treatment with other citizens in living their lives according to their own beliefs. Like many of you, Kody Brown has a civil marriage with one wife. Perhaps unlike many of you, however, Brown also has three "sister wives" with whom he... | |
| Tuesday's Three Burning Legal Questions | Top |
| Here are today's three burning legal questions, along with the answers provided by the blogosphere. 1) Question: Gramma Anna wants to take my 5-year-old son (her grandson) out to brunch today. But the restaurant won't let them in because it refuses to serve children under the age of 6. Is this legal? Answer: Senior citizens cannot be discriminated against but 5-year-olds can. So either Gramma Anna goes alone or they'll need to choose a different restaurant. (WTAE.com, Noise Prompts Monroeville Restaurant To Ban Young Kids) (via Consumerist) 2) Question: I had an iPad with me when I went through airport security. Now it has vanished! What the heck is going on? Answer: Do you see any rectangular, iPad-size bulges in the pants of the TSA officer on duty? Sometimes they'll just take your iPad, stuff it down their pants and try to sell it online before their shift is over. (New Times, TSA Agent Caught With Passenger's iPad in His Pants; Allegedly Took $50,000 in Other Goods, Cops Say) 3) Question: My elementary school-age student is a great typist, but he can't even write his own name with a pen. What are they teaching the kids these days? Answer: I... | |
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