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		<title>Presumed Parenthood for California Domestic Partners &#8211; Did This Issue Have to Be Litigated?</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 18 May 2013 21:24:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Art Leonard</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Legal Issues]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[California]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[donor insemination]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[lesbian co-parent custody]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[presumption of parentage of domestic partners]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Under longstanding legal principles in most American jurisdictions, and definitely in California, when a married woman has a child, her spouse is presumed to be the legal parent of the child.  When California first established legally-recognized domestic partnerships for same-sex couples, this status brought with it only a limited menu of rights and responsibilities.  However, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>D.C. Officials May Face Liability for Mistreatment of Transgender Detainee</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 15 May 2013 18:12:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Art Leonard</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Legal Issues]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Transgender detainee]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[unconstitutional conditions of detention for transgender detainee]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Unreasonable search of female detainee]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[A transgender woman complaining of mistreatment by District of Columbia police and federal marshalls after her arrests has convinced a U.S. District Judge that she has pled viable 4th and 5th Amendment complaints against several officers and the D.C. city government.  Ruling on May 13, Judge Ellen Segal Huvelle did dismiss some charges against some [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Hong Kong&#8217;s Highest Appeal Court Says Transgender Woman Can Marry Her Boyfriend</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 15 May 2013 17:38:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Art Leonard</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Legal Issues]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Hong Kong]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[transgender marriage]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Overruling the Registrar of Marriages in Hong Kong, who refused to issue a marriage license to a &#8220;post-operative&#8221; transgender woman who sought to marry her male partner, the Court of Final Appeal of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region ruled on May 13 that the woman, identified as W in court papers, was entitled to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>NY Family Court Uses Judicial Estoppel In Lesbian Co-Parent Custody Case</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 15 May 2013 17:01:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Art Leonard</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Legal Issues]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[co-parent custody]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Estrellita v. Jennifer]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Family Court Judge Theresa Whelan]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[judicial estoppel]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[lesbian custody]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[lesbian parents]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[New York Domestic Relations Law]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[standing to petition for custody/visitation]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.artleonardobservations.com/?p=802</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Suffolk County, N.Y., Family Court Judge Theresa Whelan used the doctrine of judicial estoppel to find that a lesbian mother who had previously acknowledged her former partner&#8217;s parental status when seeking a support order from the court, was precluded from denying the partner&#8217;s parental status in opposition to a custody/visitation petition.  Judge Whelan&#8217;s April 2, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Iowa Supreme Court Rules for Lesbian Couple in Birth Certificate Dispute</title>
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		<comments>http://www.artleonardobservations.com/iowa-supreme-court-rules-for-lesbian-couple-in-birth-certificate-dispute/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 06 May 2013 01:03:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Art Leonard</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Legal Issues]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[anonymous donor insemination]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[birth certificate]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Gartner v. Department of Public Health]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Iowa Supreme Court]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Justice David Wiggins]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Lambda Legal]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[lesbian mothers]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.artleonardobservations.com/?p=798</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The Iowa Supreme Court ruled on May 3 that a state law providing that the husband of a married woman who gives birth to a child is the presumptive father is unconstitutional to the extent that it doesn&#8217;t also provide such a presumption of parentage for married lesbian couples.  Although the court rejected a lower [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Early Music Weekend &#8211; Machaut Mass &amp; Songs for a Parisian Spring</title>
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		<comments>http://www.artleonardobservations.com/early-music-weekend-machaut-mass-songs-for-a-parisian-spring/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 05 May 2013 22:49:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Art Leonard</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Music]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Blue Heron]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Five Boroughs Music Festival]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Parthenia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Songs for a Parisian Spring]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I found myself in Ithaca, N.Y., for a meeting at Cornell Saturday afternoon, so checked out the bulletin board in the Music Department building to discover that a student group was presenting a performance last night of Guillaume de Machaut&#8217;s Messe de Nostre Dame, the earliest complete mass setting to survive (from the 14th century) [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Cultural Diary &#8211; March 23 through May 1, 2013 &#8211; A Busy Season in NYC</title>
		<link>http://www.artleonardobservations.com/cultural-diary-march-23-through-may-1-2013-a-busy-season-in-nyc/</link>
		<comments>http://www.artleonardobservations.com/cultural-diary-march-23-through-may-1-2013-a-busy-season-in-nyc/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 02 May 2013 23:12:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Art Leonard</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Music]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Theater]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Alan Gilbert]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[American Symphony Orchestra]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Andras Schiff]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Carnegie Hall]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Christian Thielemann]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Christine Goerke]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Greenwich Village Orchestra]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Jesse Blumberg]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Johannes String Quartet]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Joshua Bell]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[La Perichole]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Leon Botstein]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Les Delices]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Lisa Batiashvili]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Miller Theatre]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mohammed Fairouz]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Moses in Egypt]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[New York City Opera]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[New York Philharmonic]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[NYFOS Next]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Orpheus Chamber Orchestra]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Peoples' Symphony Concerts]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Pierre Vallet]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Quatour Ebene]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Richard Goode]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Staatskapelle Dresden]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[the Age of Indulgence]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Yevgeny Sudbin]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.artleonardobservations.com/?p=791</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Between work, concerts and theater, I&#8217;ve been so busy that I&#8217;ve generally avoided blogging about the things I&#8217;ve been attending over the past five weeks or so.  This is a catch-up posting, briefly mentioning that things I haven&#8217;t had time to write about in longer posts.  This post details the musical events (including opera).  In [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Orpheus Chamber Orchestra in Gabriel Kahane Premiere</title>
		<link>http://www.artleonardobservations.com/orpheus-chamber-orchestra-in-gabriel-kahane-premiere/</link>
		<comments>http://www.artleonardobservations.com/orpheus-chamber-orchestra-in-gabriel-kahane-premiere/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 28 Apr 2013 02:10:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Art Leonard</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Music]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Arnold Schoenberg]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Carnegie Hall]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Gabriel Kahana]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Gabriel's Guide to the 48 States]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Orpheus Chamber Orchestra]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Varklaerte Nacht]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I was blessed to be present in Carnegie Hall this evening for the first New York performance of Gabriel Kahane&#8217;s absolutely gorgeous song cycle, &#8220;Gabriel&#8217;s Guide to the 48 States,&#8221; performed by the composer with the Orpheus Chamber Orchestra.  This was the final OCO Carnegie subscription concert of the season, and it really ended on [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Circuit Judge Dings DOMA and Oregon Marriage Amendment in Grievance Ruling on Benefits</title>
		<link>http://www.artleonardobservations.com/circuit-judge-dings-doma-and-oregon-marriage-amendment-in-grievance-ruling-on-benefits/</link>
		<comments>http://www.artleonardobservations.com/circuit-judge-dings-doma-and-oregon-marriage-amendment-in-grievance-ruling-on-benefits/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Apr 2013 19:40:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Art Leonard</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Legal Issues]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[9th Circuit Court of Appeals]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Alison Clark]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Defense of Marriage Act]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[DOMA Section 3]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Federal Employee Health Benefits Program]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Judge Harry Pregerson]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Oregon Measure 36]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[recognition of same-sex marriages]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[spousal benefits for same-sex partners]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Judge Harry Pregerson of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit, sitting as Chair of the 9th Circuit’s Standing Committee on Federal Public Defenders, ruled that Alison Clark, an assistant federal public defender in the Office of the Federal Public Defender for the District of Oregon, is entitled to received coverage for her [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Federal Judge Certifies Class Actions Against DOMA Section 3</title>
		<link>http://www.artleonardobservations.com/federal-judge-certifies-class-actions-against-doma-section-3/</link>
		<comments>http://www.artleonardobservations.com/federal-judge-certifies-class-actions-against-doma-section-3/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Apr 2013 21:04:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Art Leonard</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Legal Issues]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Center for Human Rights & Constitutional Law]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Class Action]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Defense of Marriage Act]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[DOMA]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Jane DeLeon]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Judge Conseulo B. Marshall]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Marital Status for Immigration]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[same-sex marriage]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Same-Sex Spouse]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[A federal district judge in Los Angeles has certified a nationwide class action lawsuit attacking the constitutionality of Section 3 of the Defense of Marriage Act in the context of spousal immigration rights.  Having denied a motion to dismiss the case by the  Justice Department and the Bipartisan Legal Advisory Group of the House of [...]]]></description>
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