STATE HOUSE — The parenting rights of a mother in a same-sex relationship extend even when the couple is unmarried and the mother has no biological connection to the children, the state's highest court ruled Tuesday.
In a decision written by Justice Barbara Lenk, the Supreme Judicial Court overturned a Middlesex County family court's dismissal of Karen Partanen's parentage claims.
NEW HAVEN, Conn. — Yale University is showing no signs of backing away from its decision to expel the former captain of its men's basketball team over a sexual assault allegation, an action the student athlete's attorney has labeled as "wrong, unfairly determined, arbitrary, and excessive by any rational measure."
In its answer to former student Jack Montague's federal lawsuit, the prestigious Ivy League school repeatedly denied allegations made by Montague's attorney, including claims that Yale "engaged in a battle to establish itself as an institution that takes accusations of sexual misconduct seriously."
