The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit said California’s ban on gay marriage will stay in effect, at least for now. The three judge panel granted an emergency motion to stay filed by proponents of Prop 8, in the case Perry v. Schwarzenegger, until the court has time to hear the case in [...]
A motions panel for the Ninth Circuit Court set a fast-track schedule Friday for reviewing a plea to put a federal judge’s ruling against California’s Proposition 8 ban on gay marriage on hold, for at least several months. The panel, which is made up of judges on the Circuit Court, ordered that the briefing by [...]
The American Bar Associastions’s policymaking House of Delegates approved a measure by a voice vote Tuesday that urges states and territories to eliminate any laws that restrict marriage between gay couples. Incoming ABA President Stephen Zack spoke in favor of the proposed resolution, asking, “Why would anyone in this country not want two people who love each [...]
The American Bar Association will consider adopting a measure at its annual meeting this week that urges governments to eliminate any laws that restrict marriage between gay couples. ABA’s policymaking House of Delegates will vote on the measure either Monday or Tuesday during their August 5-10 annual meeting in San Francisco. The pro-gay rights measure is sponsored by [...]
In a controversial decision that will likely end up at the Supreme Court, Proposition 8, the measure banning gay marriage in California, was ruled Wednesday to be “unconstitutional,” in both “due process and equal protection rights.” The ban came into affect through a voter referendum in 2008, Prop 8, five months after the California Supreme [...]
Just weeks after the Hawaiian governor announced she let the citizens of her state decide on the matter of civil unions for gay couples, gay rights groups say the court should decide. The ACLU and Lambda Legal filed a lawsuit Thursday on behalf of six gay couples who believe any decision should be made by [...]
In two separate cases, a Massachusetts federal judge ruled Thursday that a section of the federal Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA), which defines marriage for federal purposes as a union between one man and one woman, is unconstitutional. Passed by Congress and signed into law by President Bill Clinton in 1996, DOMA, says “marriage” and “spouse” is [...]
In a unanimous ruling Wednesday, the Wisconsin Supreme Court upheld the state’s constitutional ban on gay marriage and civil unions will stand, affirming marriage as the union of one man and one woman. The court’s 7-0 ruling in the case McConkey v. Van Hollen, concluded that the constitutional amendment procedure was properly conducted in a [...]
The Wisconsin Supreme Court is expected to rule Wednesday on the validity of the 2006 constitutional amendment which banned gay marriage. In November 2009, the Wisconsin Court heard arguments in the case McConkey v. Van Hollen which contends that the state’s ban on gay marriage should be overturned because state lawmakers didn’t follow the right [...]
Florida Gov. Charlie Crist has dropped his Republican anti-abortion language from his campaign website in an attempt to woo Democrats and independent voters in his Senate bid. Crist, feeling the pinch from Republicans who were abandoning him for more conservative candidates, left the GOP to run as an independent and is now pandering to the [...]
