Commentaries by Leonore Carpenter

Winning Marriage Equality: Neither Everything Nor the Only Thing

September 20, 2014 04:00:00 pm

JURIST Guest Columnist Leonore Carpenter of Temple University Beasley School of Law discusses the US Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit's opinion in two same-sex marriage cases and where the LGBT legal rights movement should be heading in the...

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