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Reuters : U.S. judge sets Jan 2010 federal gay marriage trial
Posted by snagale in Prop 8 News on August 19th, 2009
Excerpt: SAN FRANCISCO, Aug 19 (Reuters) – The federal judge being asked to declare gay marriage a fundamental constitutional right on Wednesday set a January 2010 trial date and denied attempts by gay and conservative advocacy groups to join the case, already top-heavy with high profile lawyers.
About 30 lawyers crowded into a San Francisco courtroom hearing the challenge to California’s Proposition 8 same-sex marriage ban, a high-risk venture that will set court policy for years, if it reaches the U.S. Supreme court.
LA Times: Civil rights group threatens to fire local leader for gay marriage endorsement
Posted by snagale in Prop 8 News on July 11th, 2009
Excerpt: The Southern Christian Leadership Conference has targeted the Rev. Eric P. Lee, president of the Los Angeles chapter, for his outspoken advocacy.
The Southern Christian Leadership Conference, a civil rights group partly founded by Martin Luther King Jr., has threatened to fire the president of its Los Angeles chapter because he supports same-sex marriage.
The Rev. Eric P. Lee, president of the local SCLC chapter for two years, became an outspoken advocate of same-sex marriage during the recent campaign against Proposition 8, an amendment to the state Constitution that banned such unions.
Ted Olson goes to court on behalf of gay marriage
Posted by olloverlb in Opinion & Editorial, Prop 8 News on May 29th, 2009
By: Byron York
Chief Political Correspondent
05/26/09 9:59 PM EDT
Former Bush administration solicitor general Theodore Olson is part of a team that has filed suit in federal court in California seeking to overturn Proposition 8 and re-establish the right of same-sex couples to marry.
The suit argues that the state’s marriage ban, upheld Tuesday by the California Supreme Court, violates the federal constitutional right for same-sex couples to marry. The complaint was filed Friday, and Olson and co-counsel David Boies — who argued against Olson in the Bush v. Gore case — will hold a news conference in Los Angeles Wednesday to explain the case. The conference will feature the two same-sex couples on whose behalf Olson filed suit.
CA Supreme Court Prop. 8 News Release
Posted by olloverlb in Prop 8 News on May 28th, 2009
JUDICIAL COUNCIL OF CALIFORNIA ADMINISTRATIVE OFFICE OF THE COURTS
NEWS RELEASE
29 Release Date: May 26, 2009
Strauss v. Horton, S168047, Tyler v. State of California, S168066, and City and County of San Francisco v. Horton, S168078. The opinion is available online at www.courtinfo.ca.gov/courts/supreme/ .
In re Marriage Cases
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