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Teen Boy, Pa. Hershey School Settle AIDS Bias Case

HERSHEY, Pa. - A 14-year-old boy and his mother will receive $700,000 from the settlement of an AIDS discrimination lawsuit against a private boarding school that refused to enroll him because he?s HIV-positive.
The settlement was announced Wednesday by the AIDS Law Project of Pennsylvania and the Milton Hershey School, which is financed by a trust that holds the controlling interest in The Hershey Co. candy manufacturer. The settlement is subject to court approval.

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More states challenge US anti-gay marriage law

MONTPELIER, Vt. (AP) ? Vermont?s attorney general has joined Connecticut and New York in asking a federal appeals court to rule that the law defining marriage as between a man and a woman is unconstitutional.
Attorney General William Sorrell said Friday that the Defense of Marriage Act, known as DOMA, deprives same-gender couples of federal benefits and unfairly discriminates against them. The three states filed their briefs in the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in New York.

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