The lawsuit against Prop 8 took one teeny-tiny step forward today, as Equality California and the ACLU agreed to release a handful of previously secret emails that their opponents had demanded.

The organizations had both worked to oppose Prop. 8, the ban on equal marriage rights for gay couples. Although neither group is a plaintiff in Perry v. Schwarzenegger, the current challenge against the ban, the Prop. 8 proponents had requested emails from both organizations. EQCA estimated that gathering and releasing the documents will cost $20,000.

When EQCA and the ACLU resisted the court’s order to release the documents, they risked being held in contempt, at which time they would have been fined $2,000 per day and could have contested the order. But that’s not what happened – instead, today they both agreed to release the internal emails.

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U.S. District Court Judge Vaughn Walker has issued a warning to Equality California and the ACLU that they have until tomorrow to hand over the documents that he ordered them to so that the pro-Prop 8 groups could go through them. If they failed to do so, they would be fined a total of $2,000 per citation.

Neither Equality California nor the ACLU are, in fact, party to the lawsuit which makes the order for them to spend the $20,000 necessary to reproduce the documents rather baffling. This may be a stalling tactic on part of the “Yes on 8″ coalition which fear that this case could overturn not only Prop 8, but make same-sex marriage legal across the country.

This lawsuit, Perry v. Schwarzenegger, also has national implications as many national anti-LGBT groups fight to keep a gay man or lesbian from sitting on the Supreme Court.

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