Quickie Link [1]: Pennsylvania Court Tosses Gay Hate Law [2]

By : vanrozenheim on Nov 17, 2007 - 11:15 PM
Politics [3]
(US) - Pennsylvania Gov. Ed Rendell has urged the legislature to immediately approve "appropriate legislation" reinstating the state's hate crime protections for Gays after the Commonwealth Court in a split decision ruled the measure illegal on a technicality. In a 4-1 ruling the court said that the law, passed in 2002, was invalid because it had been tacked onto another nonrelated bill.

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