San Francisco lawyer behind unmasking of "Deep Throat" News
San Francisco lawyer behind unmasking of "Deep Throat"

[JURIST] The author of the Vanity Fair article that on Tuesday revealed the long-secret identity of "Deep Throat" is a San Francisco lawyer who first learned in 2002 that the Watergate leaker was former FBI deputy director W. Mark Felt [JURIST report]. A friend of his daughter told John O'Connor [professional profile], an attorney with the Howard Rice [law firm website] litigation firm that Felt was his grandfather. The two met to discuss revealing Felt's identity, and Felt signed a release in 2003 for O'Connor to go public with the story. The information was kept quiet until this week. Law.com has more.

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South Africa becomes first country on continent to legalize same-sex marriage

Same-sex marriages became legal in South Africa on November 30, 2006 as the country's Civil Union Act, 2006 went into effect, making South Africa the only country on the African continent to legalize same-sex marriage. Read the Civil Union Act, 2006.