A suit was filed yesterday in Florida federal district court challenging the constitutionality of a Tampa ordinance that prohibits licensed counselors from practicing conversion therapy efforts on minors. Conversion therapy is defined in the ordinance as
Month: December 2017
Monument Challenges Dismissed For Lack of Standing
In American Atheists, Inc. v. Levy County, (ND FL, Dec. 3, 2017), a Florida federal district court dismissed on standing grounds a challenge to a Ten Commandments monument in a courtyard outside county government buildings, as well as a challenge to the county's refusal to allow placement in the...
Supreme Court Denies Review In Houston Spousal Benefits Case
The U.S. Supreme Court today denied certiorari in Turner v. Pidgeon (Docket No. 17-424, cert. denied 12/4/2017) (Order List). In the case, the Texas Supreme court gave two Houston taxpayer-voters another chance to challenge the legality of the city's extending spousal benefits to same-sex married...
StarSpace: Embed All The Things!
We present StarSpace, a general-purpose neural embedding model that can solve a wide variety of problems: labeling tasks such as text classification, ranking tasks such as information retrieval/web search, collaborative filtering-based or content-based recommendation, embedding of multi-relational...
Great Jobs Report Bad News for Dems: Hispanic Unemployment Rate At Historic Low
What do Dems do with identity politics when traditional Dem voter groups are doing great? Source: http://lslink.info/?c=29DR
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