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Contents:

• BREAKG: NTH CIRCU ISSU LANDMARK RULG ON GAY MARRIAGE
• WHY THE NTH CIRCU’S STAY ON GAY MARRIAGE MIGHT HELP SUPPORTERS’ CHANC
• BREAKG: NTH CIRCU ISSU LANDMARK RULG ON GAY MARRIAGE
• SUPREME COURT STAYS 9TH CIRCU LG ON GAY-MARRIAGE BAN
• NTH CIRCU, GAY MARRIAGE, AND THE RULE OF JUDG
• VIO OF LANDMARK GAY MARRIAGE TRIAL N BE RELEASED: 9TH CIRCU
• PROP. 8 OVERTURNED CALIFORNIA, URT SAYS STATE N’T BAN GAY MARRIAGE
• NTH CIRCU OKS UNSEALG VIOS OM LANDMARK GAY MARRIAGE TRIAL

BREAKG: NTH CIRCU ISSU LANDMARK RULG ON GAY MARRIAGE

I have to teach now, so would be nice if the urts would stop issug gay-marriage cisns for an hour or, all three judg on the panel joed an opn by Circu Judge Stephen Rehardt fdg that the Idaho and Nevada bans vlate the nstutnal guarantee of same-sex upl to be treated the same legally as oppose-sex upl. Send, Judge Rehardt issued a separate opn, for himself only, sayg he would also strike down those bans unr the Constutn’s Due Procs Clse, argug that the right to marry is a fundamental guarantee and that gays and lbians have a right to share that right. (Nevada elected officials cled to fend their state's ban, so the antigay group stepped .

) Siar lgs are expected soon volvg several more the latt lg om a three-judge panel the Nth Circu do nta some important language solidifyg not jt the eedom to marry but rights for LGBT Amerins on a wi range of the highlights: The urt mak short work of the antigay talkg pots put forward by both Idaho and the antigay Coaln to Protect Marriage attorneys, potg out the nonsensil ntradictns between the laws and their purported goals:If Nevada were ncerned, as the Coaln purports to be, that state regnn of same-sex unns would make the stutn of marriage "genrls" and thereby unrme oppose-sex spo' mments to each other and their children, would be ill-advised to perm oppose-sex upl to participate the alternative domtic partnership regime has tablished.

Wrg for the unanimo urt, Judge Stephen Rehardt also rolls his ey at the suggtn by Idaho ernor Butch Otter that limg marriage to heterosexual upl creat a stabilizg effect that will dimish if gays and lbians n also stat, nclory fashn, that allowg same-sex marriage will lead oppose-sex upl to abe alhol and dgs, engage extramaral affairs, take on mandg work schl, and participate time-nsumg hobbi. When we allowed lbian and gay soldiers to serve openly uniform, enhanced un hn.... " In the Nth Circu and numero other urts, antigay lawyers have argued that the U.

WHY THE NTH CIRCU’S STAY ON GAY MARRIAGE MIGHT HELP SUPPORTERS’ CHANC

The antigay groups poted to the Glucksberg se, volvg assisted suici, to support the claim that "Our articulatn of such fundamental rights mt, we are told, be 'refully formulat[ed]. Lawrence rejected as wronghead the qutn whether "homosexuals" have certa fundamental rights; "persons" -- of whatever orientatn -- are rights-holrs.

Constutn's 14th 9th Circu is wily nsired the most liberal the three judg who were randomly selected to hear the s Monday were all appoted by Democratic prints and have prevly weighed on gay-rights 's "extremely likely" the urt will le a way that strik down Arizona's fn of marriage — and possibly wh the next uple of weeks — said attorney Dan Barr, who is reprentg platiffs one of two Arizona lawsus challengg the marriage fn. "I have a hard time seeg that this won't be a 3-0 opn strikg down the gay-marriage bans, " he said.

This jt , om Dan Leve of Rters, via Twter (12:58 PM): CALIFORNIA GAY MARRIAGE BAN IS UNCONSTITUTIONAL- 9TH CIRCUIT RULING #prop8.

BREAKG: NTH CIRCU ISSU LANDMARK RULG ON GAY MARRIAGE

Kennedy, California, California Supreme Court, Charl Cooper, Chris Geidner, Chuck Cooper, Constutnal Law, Dahlia Lhwick, Dan Leve, David Boi, Feral Judg, Gay, Gay Marriage, Michael Daly Hawks, Michael Hawks, Mike Sacks, N. NewsCelebriFanceCryptoTravelEntertamentHealthOthersNewsCelebriFanceCryptoTravelEntertamentHealthOthersAt the Amerin Constutn Society blog, Rick Hasen breaks down the possible meangs of the Nth Circu Court of Appeals’ cisn to put a hold on gay marriag California.

He nclus that while ’s hard to read anythg to how the Nth Circu will ultimately le on Proposn 8, the cisn might crease the chanc that the Supreme Court will si wh gay-marriage stay cisn, Hasen argu, might have been issued for a number of reasons, most obvly to prerve the stat quo. That way, if the opn of Judge Vghn Walker ends up gettg reversed, the state won’t be volved a whole new round of ligatn surroundg the gay marriag that occurred the terveng perd of the cisn self might help gay marriage supporters bee will buy more time for public opn to ntue warmg to the ia of gay marriage before reach the Supreme Court:“„Had the Nth Circu upheld Judge Walker’s nial of a stay, the issue would have fallen to the lap of Jtice Kennedy (the Supreme Court Jtice who handl emergency appeals om the Nth Circu) on an expeded schle.

By that time, Hasen reasons, “public opn uld shift more firmly toward gay marriage, and is possible that such an emergg social nsens uld fluence Jtice [Anthony] Kennedy toward strikg down Proposn 8. The 9th Circu Court's lg on gay marriage.

SUPREME COURT STAYS 9TH CIRCU LG ON GAY-MARRIAGE BAN

8 anti-gay-marriage vote. In keepg wh a Supreme Court doctre that judicial lgs should be as narrow as possible, verg only what is absolutely necsary, the lg didn't try to tablish a Constutnal right to marriage — which supporters of gay marriage would have liked to see — but merely stated that Prop. 8 was valid simply bee took away rights that had already been posssed by gay people (as a rult of a California urt cisn).

Evans, by the Supreme Court, that prevented Coloradans om voidg already-passed anti-discrimatn laws affectg gay people. Here’s a quick timele of events the Proposn 8 / gay marriage / marriage equaly ligatn.

January 2010: A three-week trial tak place before Judge Vghn Walker (who happens to be gay; this is relevant for purpos of the ligatn bee backers of Prop 8 argue that Judge Walker — or former judge Walker, sce he has steppe down om the bench — should have reced himself). Earlier: Prr ATL verage of Proposn 8Prr ATL verage of gay marriage. "It would be appropriate for Tom Horne to brg this to closure quickly, " said Jennifer Pizer, senr unsel for the gay-rights advocy anizatn Lambda Legal and an attorney reprentg same-sex upl one of two Arizona lawsus.

NTH CIRCU, GAY MARRIAGE, AND THE RULE OF JUDG

In 2008, the California Supreme Court disvered/announced that homosexual upl had a fundamental right to marry unr the state nstutn.

The people who adopted the state’s nstutn never clud a specific provisn regnizg homosexual marriage, they and the urts unrstood marriage was limed to oppose-sex upl om 1850 until 2008, was a state urt that upset the applert and “disvered” this new right 2008, and the people acted wh 6 months to reaffirm the tradnal unrstandg of marriage when they passed Proposn 8. People march the San Francis gay pri para, two days after the U.

VIO OF LANDMARK GAY MARRIAGE TRIAL N BE RELEASED: 9TH CIRCU

Circu Court of Appeals San Francis said s 2-1 lg that advot who had backed the gay marriage ban had not shown how publicly releasg the tap would e harm.

"Walker's California gay marriage lg preced the June 2015 U. Lawyers and platiffs who sued the state over a gay marriage ban hold a prs nference outsi of the Jam A. The 9th Circu Court California stck down as unnstutnal the state's voter-passed ban on gay marriage Tuday, lg 2-1 that vlat the rights of gay Californians.

8 here]"Proposn 8 serv no purpose, and has no effect, other than to lsen the stat and human digny of gays and lbians California, and to officially reclassify their relatnships and fai as ferr to those of oppose-sex upl, " Judge Stephen Rehardt wrote the cisn.

PROP. 8 OVERTURNED CALIFORNIA, URT SAYS STATE N’T BAN GAY MARRIAGE

The urt nclus that the law vlat the 14th Amendment rights of gay upl to equal protectn unr the law. Accs to gay marriage will rema on hold pendg appeals to the n watch an ABC News report on the lg below:The Circu Court backed up District Judge Vghn Walker, who led Augt of 2010 that the state of California has no "ratnal basis" to sgle out gay men and women as eligible for marriage. 8, which passed 2008 after thoands of gay upl had already married, appealed Walker's cisn argug that should be vated bee Walker is gay and has a same-sex partner.

The 9th Circu Court judg nied this 's sweepg 2010 cisn was lled a "grand slam" by gay rights advot, who hoped would nvce the Supreme Court to le stat nnot outlaw gay marriage. In California, gay people had the right to marry for five months before was taken away by voters. But this argument would not apply to gay people most other stat, where gay marriage was never legalized the first place.

"It's a strong cisn but is not the rgg endorsement of broar marriage equaly that some might have hoped for, " Hunter College profsor and gay rights advote Kenh Sherrill Universy of California Irve law profsor Erw Chemersky tells Yahoo News that the unrlyg reasong the cisn is broad--there's no legimate state tert nyg same-sex marriage rights. Chemersky noted that the cisn appeals to swg vote Supreme Court Jtice Anthony Kennedy, by cg his cisn a 1996 se strikg down a Colorado law that prevented muni om treatg gay people as a protected Olson, the U.

NTH CIRCU OKS UNSEALG VIOS OM LANDMARK GAY MARRIAGE TRIAL

Republin printial ndidate Mt Romney released a statement sayg the "fight" over stat' rights to ban gay marriage is not over. " 'Proposn 8 served no purpose, and had no effect, other than to lsen the stat and human digny of gays and lbians California, ' the urt said.