From SF Gate: The federal appeals court in the Proposition 8 case hinted Monday at a ruling that would allow gays and lesbians to marry in California while leaving other states’ laws intact – a restrained approach seemingly designed to appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court. Lawyers challenging the 2008 initiative urged the Ninth U.S. [...]
More info as the Prop 8 trial gets underway in just a few hours. Here’s our post from this weekend about viewing locations, times and social media updates: Prop 8 Opponents Lay Out What To Expect Monday The following is some last minute items (live blogging/more viewing locations) courtesy of SF Weekly. From SF Weekly: [...]
Chad Griffin, board president of Americans For Equal Rights (AFER), the org backing the legal team that’s opposing Prop 8, posted a plethora of information on the AFER Web site about viewership locations and stations. He also included social media and online resources that will keep you up to date on the Prop 8 hearings [...]
From the San Francisco Examiner: The National Organization for Marriage (NOM) is fighting back in response to Judge Reinhardt announcing that he will not remove himself from the Proposition 8 trial in San Francisco. NOM is asking their 300,000 supporters to file official complaints with the Ninth Circuit court before the hearing takes place on [...]
Big shout out to a RENWL reader Eric for giving us the heads up. Last night Prop 8 attorneys filed a motion requesting that Judge Stephen Reinhardt disqualify himself as one of the Panel judges for the Prop 8 appeal case because of his wife’s past role with the American Civil Liberties Union. You can [...]
We knew they were gonna work on the judges if they could. Sure enough, Prop 8tr Andrew Pugno and thugs filed documents with the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals in SF tonight, asking Judge Stephen Reinhardt to disqualify himself because of his wife’s role with the American Civil Liberties Union, says the Washington Post. The [...]
The Denver Westworld (which is supposed to be Denver’s version of an alternative weekly newspaper we think) features a post this week about the Devin & Glenn Youtube satire that starred Justin Long and Mike White; that funny skit about why gays should get married by portraying the misery of marriage as time goes on. [...]
