Our legal system gives a homeowner a lot of protection to act in defense of the sanctity of the family home.
"Defendants now renege on those promises and press an act of war defense, " the lawyers wrote.
Charged with first-degree murder, she could spend the rest of her life in prison if convicted, but she insists it was an act of self-defense after months of taking care of a troubled teen.
It includes ending a legal defense of the Defense of Marriage Act.
That is, it might have been seen as the legitimate act of self-defense it is.
Thomas More Hospital to cite the state's Wrongful Death Act in defense of this lawsuit.
Zimmerman, who is Hispanic, told authorities the killing was an act of self-defense.
The PCOM was born in the late 1930s as a desperate act of self-defense by West Texas cotton farmers, who at the time could hardly give their seed away.
February 2011: The Obama administration instructs the U.S. Justice Department to stop defending the constitutionality of the Defense of Marriage Act in court.
Sen Portman said he would like Congress to repeal the provision of the Defense of Marriage Act (Doma), which bans federal recognition of gay marriage.
That is expected to happen when the Supreme Court will weigh the constitutionality of the Defense of Marriage Act through the prism of Windsor and Spyer's story.
It is also important to note that the enforcement of the Defense of Marriage Act continues -- the President is constitutionally bound to enforce the laws and enforcement of the DOMA will continue.
The argument that we have made before the Supreme Court and the argument that we have made publicly, including in a letter that the Attorney General sent to the Speaker of the House a couple years ago, is the argument that Section 3 -- let me make sure I got that right -- Section 3 of the Defense of Marriage Act is unconstitutional.
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This spring, the Supreme Court will weigh in on the constitutionality of the federal Defense of Marriage Act.
He disapproves of the federal Defense of Marriage Act, yet rather than get Congress to repeal it, he stops defending it in court.
Justice Anthony Kennedy, often the decisive vote in close cases, joined the four more liberal justices in raising questions about a provision of the federal Defense of Marriage Act that is being challenged at the court.
This is likely to be the term that the U.S. Supreme Court considers the constitutionality of the federal Defense of Marriage Act or DOMA. There is also an outside chance that the Supreme Court will rule on whether same-sex couples must once again be able to marry in California.
Justices will also hear arguments in a related case concerning the constitutionality of a provision in the Defense of Marriage Act, which defines marriage as between one man and one woman.
Whatever the Supreme Court ultimately decides about the constitutionality of Proposition 8 and the Defense of Marriage Act, the movement of same-sex marriage from the margins to the mainstream has been achieved.
The justices of the Supreme Court heavily scrutinized the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA) during oral arguments yesterday.
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To be sure, in opposing the Missile Defense Act of 1999, the Clinton-Gore Administration made the argument that other factors, like those enumerated above, should be taken into account.
But even after they married in 2007 in Toronto, some 40 years into their courtship, the two women were not "like most couples" in the eyes of the state of New York, where they lived, nor in the eyes of the U.S. government, which under the Defense of Marriage Act mandates that a spouse, as legally defined, must be a person of the opposite sex.
Of the 36 still-active Democrats in Congress who voted for the 1996 Defense of Marriage Act, which recognizes only heterosexual marriages, all but nine have since changed to support gay marriage.
In 1947, President Truman signed the National Security Act, creating the Department of Defense, the National Security Council, the Central Intelligence Agency and the Joint Chiefs of Staff.
Beyond RE-ENERGYSE, the federal government should work to expand these programs into a clean-energy education strategy on par with the National Defense Education Act of 1958, which helped reposition the U.S. in the space race and achieve revolutions in information technology.
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And in June the Supreme Court will vote on the Defense of Marriage Act.
The Justice Department will argue against the Defense of Marriage Act, a federal law, on Wednesday.
News accounts suggest that the Supreme Court may eventually strike down the Defense of Marriage Act.
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President Barack Obama believes the Defense of Marriage Act is unconstitutional, but continues to enforce it.
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Conservatives love states rights until you get to the Defense of Marriage Act, then maybe not so much.
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