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Finally, after much lobbying and petitioning by KERA and other women's clubs, the legislature passed a law in 1912 that gave "qualified" women the right to vote and run for office in the new county school system. This law was tested in the courts and stood, allowing for state protection of the right for black and white women citizens to vote.
The Court held that the Kentucky statute that required the Ten Commandments to be posted in school classrooms [1] violated the First Amendment. To interpret the First Amendment, the Court used the precedent established in Lemon v. Kurtzman and the three-part "Lemon test". The Court concluded that because "requiring the posting of the Ten ...
Missouri: A court found that state law dealing with women having abortions after the first trimester needing to have it performed in a hospital was unconstitutional. [226] 1980. Kentucky adopts a law preventing public hospitals from performing abortion procedures except to protect the life of the mother. [163]
[1] [2] Signed by Governor Matt Bevin on April 26, 2018, [3] [4] it was the first such law for permanent child custody orders passed in the United States. [5] [6] A temporary order aided the law's passage of the shared parenting bill, House Bill 492, passed a year before. The law became a motivator for similar bills to be passed in other states ...
Wade last summer, but an Emerson College Polling Kentucky poll this fall found 55% of Kentucky voters oppose the lack of exceptions in current laws, with just 28% in support. It was a hot topic ...
The Kentucky Department of Education released its 2023-2024 School Report Card data Thursday. The state categorizes each school’s overall indicator score by color — red (1, the lowest), orange ...
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Mary Elliott Flanery (April 27, 1867 – July 19, 1933) was an American Progressive Era social reformer, suffragist, politician, and journalist who is best remembered as the first woman elected to the Kentucky General Assembly and first woman elected to a state legislature south of the Mason–Dixon line. [1]