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SACRAMENTO - A federal judge has awarded $289,000 in legal fees to nearly three dozen law students and their supervisor for their role in winning religious rights for Muslim inmates in the California prison system. Over the seven-year life of the lawsuit, 34 students at the King Hall Civil Rights Clinic at the UC Davis School of Law dedicated nearly 2,000 hours of work. U.S. District Judge Lawrence K. Karlton on Friday ruled they should be paid $60 an hour for their work between October 1997 and June 2001, or a total of $114,780. The balance will go to Susan...

(AgapePress) - The chief justice of the Alabama Supreme Court says he supports a court decision that denied child custody rights to a woman because she is a lesbian. Chief Justice Roy Morre -- in an opinion backing the unanimous decision -- said the homosexual conduct of a parent "creates a strong presumption of unfitness that alone is sufficient justification for denying that parent custody of his or her own children or prohibiting the adoption of the children of others." His opinion continued: "In this case there is undisputed evidence that the mother of the minor children not only dated...