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The Controversy of Gay Conversion Therapy: The Ninth Circuit Will Be The First to Weigh In

By September 4, 2013

By: Jorge R. Delgado The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeal soon will address the constitutionality of California’s first-of-its-kind ban on gay conversion therapy for minors.  The controversial therapies stem from the now widely discredited belief that homosexuality is a curable disease.  Pickup v. Brown, No. 2:12-CV-02497-KJM-EF, 2012 WL 6021465, at …

The Problem Play of Voting Rights: Is it Curtain Call for Section 5 of the Voting Rights Act?

By November 6, 2012

By: Jorge R. Delgado “Voter ID” laws, voter purges, early voting changes, and similar measures have become familiar terms in today’s news cycle.  One person’s initiative to stop voter fraud easily becomes another person’s surreptitious scheme to suppress minority voting rights.  Statistics offer plenty of fodder for disagreement, and disagreement …