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Brandon Teena. Brandon Teena[note 1] (December 12, 1972 – December 31, 1993) was an American transgender man who was raped and later, along with Phillip DeVine and Lisa Lambert, murdered in Humboldt, Nebraska, by John Lotter and Tom Nissen. [2][3] His life and death were the subject of the films The Brandon Teena Story and Boys Don't Cry.
Lana M. Tisdel (born May 28, 1975) [2] is an American woman whose early life and involvement with the December 1993 murders of Brandon Teena, Lisa Lambert, and Phillip DeVine at the hands of John Lotter and Tom Nissen is chronicled in the 1998 documentary The Brandon Teena Story and the 1999 film Boys Don't Cry (which left out DeVine). [3]
Log Cabin Republicans v. United States, 658 F.3d 1162 (9th Cir. 2011) [1] was a federal lawsuit challenging the constitutionality of 10 U.S.C. § 654, commonly known as don't ask, don't tell (DADT), which, prior to its repeal, excluded homosexuals from openly serving in the United States military.
If a family accepted the offer, it was not possible to appeal. Families unhappy with the offer were able to appeal in a nonadversarial, informal hearing to present their case however they wanted. Feinberg personally presided over more than 900 of the 1,600 hearings. At the end of the process $7 billion was awarded to 97% of the families.
United States appellate procedure involves the rules and regulations for filing appeals in state courts and federal courts. The nature of an appeal can vary greatly depending on the type of case and the rules of the court in the jurisdiction where the case was prosecuted. There are many types of standard of review for appeals, such as de novo ...
On January 28, 2017, Aleksej Gubarev, chief of technology company XBT and a figure mentioned in the dossier, initiated a defamation lawsuit against BuzzFeed, Inc. and Steele (and his company, Orbis Business Intelligence) in the High Court of Justice in London, Britain, Case No: CR 2017 - 664, [1] after BuzzFeed published the "Steele Dossier," alleging the dossier made "seriously defamatory ...
Argument: Oral argument: Case history; Prior: Boutilier v. Immigration and Naturalization Service, 363 F.2d 488 (2d Cir. 1966); cert. granted, 385 U.S. 927 (1966).: Holding; An alien who was a homosexual at the time of entry into the United States can be excluded from immigration under the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1952.
John Lott. John Richard Lott Jr. (born May 8, 1958) is an American economist, political commentator, and gun rights advocate. Lott was formerly employed at various academic institutions and at the American Enterprise Institute conservative think tank. He is the former president of the Crime Prevention Research Center, a nonprofit he founded in ...