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  • A California Superior Court judge dismissed a lawsuit challenging the constitutionality of the state's end-of-life law. The law currently prohibits doctors from administering life-ending drugs, instead authorizing only the removal of life-sustaining treatment and sedation to prevent pain. Read more at the San Diego Union-Tribune.
  • An Indiana woman has filed a federal lawsuit claiming that her county committed an unlawful employment practice. The county fired her for refusing to issue, on religious grounds, a same-sex marriage license in her role as an employee of the county clerk. Read more at the Lafayette Journal & Courier.