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sfgate.com - 10/26/2009
Judge denies Prop. 8 backers delay on memos
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The sponsors had sought to keep the documents while challenging the order to turn them over in an appeals court. But in a ruling late Friday, Chief U.S. District Judge Vaughn Walker of San Francisco said backers of Proposition 8 had failed to show that disclosing internal memos and e-mails would ...
topics.cnn.com - 10/27/2009
Same-Sex Marriage: News & Videos about Same-Sex Marriage
— topics.cnn.com — Prop. 8 opponent: We want full civil marriage rights More than a week after voters in California,... Arizona and Florida passed ballot initiatives outlawing same-sex marriage, thousands of people across the country protested the bans in simultaneous ... (more) Same-Sex Marriage: News & Videos about Same-Sex Marriage

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heritage.org - 10/26/2009
The Price of Prop 8
— heritage.org — Supporters of Proposition 8 in California have been subjected to harassment, intimidation, vandalism, racial scapegoating, blacklisting, loss... of employment, economic hardships, angry protests, violence, at least one death threat, and gross expressions ... (more) The Price of Prop 8

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Above the Law:  Morning Docket 10.26.09

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Morning Docket 10.26.09
Above the Law — ... wishes that the other justices would STFU during oral arguments. He also complained that there are too many Ivy Leaguers on the SCOTUS bench. [Associated Press] * One of the beneficiaries at the top of Bernard Madoff's Ponzi scheme was found on the bottom of a pool Sunday. [New York Times] * Who has the rights to the treasures of the Titanic? [Associated Press] * Proposition 8 proponents have to turn over their campaign strategy documents. [San Francisco Chronicle] * An anarchist social worker believes his constitutional ...

Tuesday Round-up
SCOTUSblog — Adam Liptak at the New York Times covers the continuing legal battle over gay marriage, and in particular the lawsuit – filed by former Solicitor General Ted Olson – pending before U.S. District Judge Vaughn Walker in California.  Liptak notes that public support for gay marriage is not as widespread as the support for homosexual sex and interracial marriage when the Supreme Court ruled on those issues.  He quotes Andrew Koppelman of Northwestern Law School, who posits that arguments in favor of gay marriage “will have trouble attracting votes from the current justices.”  The San Francisco Chronicle also covers Judge Walker’s decision to order sponsors of ...

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