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On Thursday, Tunisia's presidency spokeswoman, Saida Garrach, announced that the country's ban on Muslim women marrying non-Muslim men has come to an end. The prior law had required men to convert to Islam and submit a certificate of the conversion...

The US Supreme Court on Monday denied a petition for certiorari from Kody Brown and his four wives, famous for their reality television show Sister Wives . They were challenging the constitutionality of a...

A polygamous family on TLC's "Sister Wives" reality TV show filed a request on Monday with the US Supreme Court in an attempt to legalize polygamy. Kody Brown and his four wives filed the...

The US Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit on Monday threw out a constitutional challenge to Utah's anti-bigamy laws . The lawsuit was brought in 2011 by the family from TLC's reality TV show...

JURIST Guest Columnist Kaimipono Wenger of Thomas Jefferson School of Law, discusses the rise of anti-LGBT bills in a number of conservative states and opposite reactions to these bills and the fundamental question: do LGBT rights create burdens on religion,...

Three individuals in a polygynous domestic relationship on Friday filed a lawsuit in the US District Court for the District of Montana , challenging Montana's law banning polygamy, following Yellowstone County officials' denial of a...

A judge for the US District Court for the District of Utah on Wednesday struck down portions of the state's Anti-Bigamy Statute that were challenged by the family of TLC's reality TV show...

Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta on Tuesday signed into law a controversial bill allowing polygamy. The Marriage Act 2014 brings civil law in line with customary law , where some cultures allow...

Haider Ala Hamoudi, University of Pittsburgh School of Law

James Dwyer, William & Mary Law School