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Prop 8 trial spotlights clash of cultures
Everyone packed into U.S. District Court Judge Vaughn Walker’s courtroom in San Francisco on Jan. 11 knew they were watching history.
On one side of the court sat lawyers Ted Olson and David Boies, partisan foes in Bush v. Gore. Now the straight pair pledged to prove that same-sex couples deserved the fundamental right to marry. [...]
Watching the Prop 8 trial, part 7
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I wonder if the opening minutes of Tuesday’s federal Proposition 8 trial in San Francisco will be business as usual — or if the participants and observers will acknowledge the profound irony of having a federal holiday honoring Martin Luther King Jr. the day [...]
Watching the Prop 8 trial, part 2
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It seemed that everyone’s nerves were on edge on the first day of the historic federal challenge to California’s Proposition 8 in the San Francisco district courthouse, just a block or so away from where all those thousands of jubilant couples married illegally in [...]
Prop 8 trial begins Monday
The eyes of LGBT rights supporters will be on the proceedings of a California federal court case next week that could overturn the state’s ban on same-sex marriage — and possibly similar bans throughout the country.
The trial in the case of Perry v. Schwarzenegger will begin Monday. Judge Vaughn Walker of the U.S. District Court’s [...]
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