The Ninth Circuit has just announced that the panel hearing the appeal of Judge Vaughn Walker’s Prop 8 ruling will consist of Stephen Reinhardt, Michael D. Hawkins, and N. Randy Smith (you can find the announcement on page 2 of the PDF doc at the end of this post.) According to Bench Memo (a very conservative [...]
UC Berkeley Press Release: Judge Vaughn Walker, who in August ruled that California’s voter-approved ban on gay marriage was unconstitutional, will co-teach a new course at Berkeley Law next semester. Chief Judge of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California, Walker will team with visiting professor Francis McGovern from Duke University of [...]
On Monday of this week Prop 8 opponents Olson and Boies filed briefs with the U.S. Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals in support of Judge Vaughn Walker’s decision declaring Proposition 8 unconstitutional. Copies of the briefs can be found at the end of this post. On Thursday a Federal Appeals Court announced that oral arguments [...]
A man named Robert Wooten filed an amicus brief right before gay marriage foes filed their first brief to the Ninth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals on Friday seeking to restore Proposition 8. His brief which also supports restoration of Prop 8 states that anti-gay marriage initiative should be restored because Judge Vaughn Walker who [...]
Republicans in the state Assembly have penned a letter urging Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger to appeal the recent ruling overturning California’s ban on gay marriage, says the Sacramento Bee newspaper. The 27 Republican legislators who signed a letter to Gov. Schwarzenegger argued that by staying out of the case, Schwarzenegger and Brown will set a precedent that officials “may [...]
We noticed that all of the numerous LGBT news related outlets and blogs who’ve covered the petitioning by the Pacific Justice Institute on behalf of Pastor Joshua Beckley of San Bernardino’s Ecclesia Christian Fellowship—-to force the state’s Governor and the AG to defend Prop 8— none of them mention the ethnicity of Pastor Joshua Beckley. [...]
That’s what we love about old Meggie Whitman. She’s a diehard repub through and through. No guessing about her take on things. And no, she didn’t exactly say it like that. But yes, she did say that she would unquestionably defend Prop 8. “The issue right now is, as I understand is ‘Will Proposition 8 [...]
