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NEW ORLEANS - A father and son are battling over a family business that has made Mardi Gras floats for more than 50 years, and the son accuses his 83-year-old father's much younger fourth wife of manipulating the older man.

JACKSON, Miss. - Another teenage lesbian is suing a rural Mississippi school district, this time over a policy banning young women from wearing tuxedos in senior yearbook portraits.

HOUSTON - The family of a southeast Texas firefighter killed in a July 4 blaze has sued to void his marriage to his transgender widow and prevent her from getting his death benefits because she was born a man and Texas doesn't recognize same-sex marriages.

BOULDER, Colo. - A Colorado jury is scheduled to hear arguments in a dispute between a landlord and a former tenant who says she was evicted over edible Easter decorations displayed on her door for two weeks after the holiday.

JACKSON, Miss. - School officials in a rural Mississippi county told a lesbian student to get "guys" to take her and her girlfriend to a high school prom and warned the girls against slow dancing with each other because that could "push people's buttons," according to documents filed Tuesday in federal court.
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