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Thursday, December 31st, 2009
A federal appeals court reaffirmed its ruling Wednesday that allowed sponsors of California’s ban on same-sex marriage to withhold campaign strategy documents from gay rights advocates who are seeking to overturn the ballot measure.
The Ninth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco on Dec. 11 had overturned a judge’s order to produce the documents, ruling 3-0 that their disclosure might discourage participation in future campaigns and inhibit strategists from speaking candidly. An appellate judge then sought a rehearing before an 11-judge panel, but the court said Wednesday that the request failed to gain majority support from its members. No vote total was announced.
The November 2008 initiative, Proposition 8, amended the California Constitution to define marriage as the union of a man and a woman, overturning a May 2008 state Supreme Court ruling that allowed gay and lesbian couples to marry.
Full Story from SF Gate: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2009/12/31/BAGA1BBNTC.DTL&feed=rss.gay
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Thursday, December 17th, 2009
Judges of the U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals will vote soon on whether to reconsider their decision last week denying gay rights advocates access to internal communications of Proposition 8 supporters who succeeded in getting voters to ban same-sex marriage last year.
In a terse announcement filed this evening, the three judges who denied the access, citing 1st Amendment grounds, said one of the 27 active judges on the court had called for a vote to rehear the issue with a full 11-member panel of judges.
The call for the rehearing vote could signal dismay by at least one judge on the court at Friday’s ruling denying lawyers for two gay couples the chance to review Proposition 8 supporters’ campaign-related e-mails and letters. The lawyers want to comb the communications for evidence that the ballot measure was an attempt to sow fear and discrimination against gays and lesbians.
Full Story from the LA Times: http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/lanow/2009/12/appeals-court-to-vote-on-new-hearing-in-proposition-8-challenge.html
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Saturday, December 12th, 2009
A federal appeals court in San Francisco has reversed a judge’s order that backers of Proposition 8, the state initiative that banned same-sex marriage, give their campaign strategy documents to opponents trying to overturn the measure. In a unanimous ruling Friday, the Ninth U.S. Circuit of Appeals tossed out the order that Chief U.S. District Judge Vaughn Walker issued in October against backers of Prop. 8, which state voters approved in November 2008.
Walker had said lawyers for two same-sex couples and a gay-rights group were entitled to see internal memos and e-mails between Yes on 8 strategists to look for evidence that the campaign had exploited prejudice against gays and lesbians.
The plaintiffs are trying to show that the measure was discriminatory and thus unconstitutional.
Full Story from SFGate: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2009/12/11/BA3A1B34VC.DTL
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Saturday, December 5th, 2009
Looks like Northern District of California Chief Judge Vaughn Walker is going to suffer his first reversal in the federal challenge to Proposition 8. The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals continued a stay of Walker’s order forcing the Yes on 8 campaign to turn over internal documents and e-mails to challengers of the measure. In its order, the court said the campaign had made a “strong showing” that it would succeed on the merits of the discovery issue.
Ninth Circuit Judges Kim Wardlaw, Raymond Fisher and Marsha Berzon — all Clinton appointees — also indicated that they would make a formal ruling “promptly.”
In arguing that Prop 8 violates federal due process and equal protection provisions, plaintiffs sought the campaign documents to help prove a discriminatory intent behind the anti-gay marriage effort. The Yes on 8 camp countered that such disclosures would abrogate the campaign’s First Amendment rights.
Full Story from Law.com: http://www.law.com/jsp/article.jsp?id=1202436079485&Gay_Marriage_Foes_Win_Some_Satisfaction_From_th_Circuit
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Wednesday, December 2nd, 2009
Lawyers for two gay couples told a federal appeals court Tuesday that they need access to internal communications from last year’s Proposition 8 campaign to show that the measure banning same-sex marriage was designed to sow “discriminatory animus” toward gays and lesbians.
Supporters of the measure that ended a five-month period when gay marriage was legal in California argued before the U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals that their 1st Amendment rights would be infringed and future political discussions “chilled” if they were forced to reveal the thousands of e-mails sent out to campaign associates.
The battle over access to the sponsors’ internal strategy is part of a broader national debate over what is private and what is public in the world of politics, especially on hot-button issues such as gay rights and abortion.
Full Story from the LA Times: http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-gaymarriage2-2009dec02,0,5945451.story
Click here for gay marriage resources in California.
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