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Should the U.S. Supreme Court overturn the 1996 Defense of Marriage Act?

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Tags: DOMA, LGBT, Defense of Marriage Act, U.S. Supreme Court, Supreme Court, marriage equality, gay marriage

This week, justices heard oral arguments in the case seeking to over turn the Defense of Marriage Act. It is expected that the U.S. Supreme Court will narrowly overturn the 1996 law when a decision is made. That is expected to come in several months.

ACLU petitions Supreme Court on taser case listen

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Tags: Tasers, ACLU, U.S. Supreme Court

The Hillsborough County Medical Examiner says that a Plant City man who was tasered by sheriff’s deputies last year died from "delirium with agitation due to schizoaffective disorder.”

Dr. Leszek Chrostowski said the cause of death of 46-year-old Roney Wilson last September was homicide.

Chrostowski would not go on tape discussing his findings with WMNF, but he did tell us that generally medical examiners choose between homicide and accident when listing cause of death after an inciden...