... . In 1999, the Supreme Court of Canada ordered the Alberta government to grant homosexuals special protection under the province's human rights law (Smith, Max, B.C. Report Magazine, 1999). In March of 1999 the right to private adoption of same-sex partners was extended and in ... the same year the Supreme Court dismissed the heterosexual definition of spouse under Ontario's Family Law Act (Smith, Max, B.C. Report Magazine, 1999). Custody and access laws pertaining to same-sex partners and their children have brought forth a lot of ... obtain equal parenting rights, whether as a result ...

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... high schools. Marshall won most of the cases he argued before the Supreme Court. Some of the important cases he argued, which became landmarks in getting rid of segregation, include: Smith v. Allwright (1944), establishing the rights of African-Americans to vote in Democratic primary elections; Morgan v. Virginia (1946), outlawing the state's segregation policy as applied to interstate bus transportation; and Shelley ... movement in the 1950's and 1960's. During the 1950's, Marshall won other cases that lead to the desegregation of swimming pools, athletic facilities, local bus systems,...

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