The backers of Proposition 8 have asked in an emergency appeal now before a federal court for a permanent hold on last week’s “egregiously selective and one-sided” marriage ruling, contending it flouted the law and ignored the evidence. A three-judge panel of the US 9th Circuit Court of Appeals is considering the request to prevent [...]
On Thursday, US District Judge Vaughn Walker refused to extend a stay—placed on his ruling that declared California’s gay-marriage ban unconstitutional—beyond next week. Barring intervention from the US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, the decision clears the way for same-sex marriages to begin again in California on Aug. 18. To give the appeals [...]
A lawyer for opponents of California’s same-sex marriage ban, Ted Olson, said he’s “hopeful and reasonably confident” they would prevail in the United States Supreme Court. On “Fox News Sunday,” Olson’s comments focused on US District Judge Vaughn R. Walker’s decision Wednesday overturning the ban on grounds it violated constitutional guarantees to equal protection and [...]
Urging the federal judge who overturned Proposition 8 to impose his ruling while the case moves through the higher courts, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger called Friday for the immediate restoration of same-sex marriage in California. A legal brief written on behalf of Schwarzenegger said that allowing gay and lesbian couples to marry “is consistent with California’s [...]
Until the US Supreme Court ultimately has its say, the landmark decision rejecting California’s same-sex marriage ban sets up a complicated and unpredictable legal fight that could inspire a chain reaction of challenges on both sides of the debate. In the wake of the ruling, passions are running high. Supporters of the voter-approved Proposition 8 [...]
US District Chief Judge Vaughn R. Walker has ruled that the California Proposition 8 banning of same-sex marriage has given the plaintiffs a broad ruling in throwing out the ban and ordered the State of California to again perform marriages between same-sex couples. In striking down Proposition 8, the voter approved ballot measure that banned [...]
According to a new report, the 2008 ballot measure that banned same-sex marriage in California, would have been defeated if voters in favor of gay rights weren’t confused about what they were voting for and if supporters including suburban Bay Area residents and white Democrats weren’t swayed by anti-gay TV commercials. In the hope of [...]
On Tuesday afternoon, a partially decomposed body was found in a desolate, grassy field in the city of Moreno Valley, California, just two miles from where a 17-year-old girl disappeared last week on her walk home from summer school. Officials from the Riverside County Sheriff’s said they have not determined if the remains are those [...]
