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:Eric Ethington (Author) | November 17, 2011
California – The California Supreme Court has just released their ruling on the question of Standing in the Prop 8 case. According to the court, Yes-On-8 supporters DO have standing to appeal Judge Walker’s ruling which struck down Prop 8, even though the California Government has refused to appeal. Although many in the LGBT and [...]
Eric Ethington (Author) | April 11, 2011
Arizona – The 9th Circuit Appellate Court has upheld a lower ruling against the State’s infamous SB1070 immigration bill. They have also ruled against Arizona Governor Jan Brewer’s instruction to police to arrest people they “reasonably believe” to be illegal immigrants. Once again, the courts have upheld the constitution which states that immigration is a [...]
Eric Ethington (Author) | February 25, 2011
New York – Kenneth Ranftle and J. Craig Leiby were married in Canada back in 2008. That same year Kenneth passed away and Mr. Leiby began a 2 year court battle for inheritance rights. Finally an appellate court came back last night with a ruling in his favor! The ruling is being seen as a [...]
Eric Ethington (Author) | February 3, 2011
California – The State Supreme Court have announced that they should have a decision on whether or not they’ll rule on standing by next week. This is getting complicated.. see the details below. Ok, so here’s where we’re at. The 9th District Court needs to decide on whether or not the defense (prop-Prop8 people) have [...]
Eric Ethington (Author) | January 28, 2011
France – The Constitutional Court (France’s equivalent to the US Supreme Court) ruled today that the country’s ban on gay marriage is legal. The court noted that at this point it is the job of the parliament, not the courts in France. One has to wonder what effect, if any, this will have here in [...]
Eric Ethington (Author) | January 4, 2011
California – The 9th District Court has just released their ruling on Proposition 8! They’ve sent the issue of ‘standing’ to the State Supreme Court. This means they want the Supreme Court to make the ruling instead of them. Read the decision below! Basically what they’re saying is that there is no precedent for them [...]
Eric Ethington (Author) | January 3, 2011
Uganda – A judge has finally made his ruling in the case against the “Rolling Stone” magazine (no relation to U.S. mag) which published 100 photos and address of gay people in Uganda. The judge banned the magazine from ever doing it again, and awarded compensation to victims. After the magazine published the names, photos [...]
Eric Ethington (Author) | December 27, 2010
Australia – A court has given permission to a church-run adoption agency to continue discriminating against gay couples, even though national law requires that no agency discriminate. Sigh… just one week after the same state, New South Wales (NSW), saw its first gay adoption. Apparently neither the sitting party in NSW or the opposing party have any [...]
Eric Ethington (Author) | November 1, 2010
BREAKING: The 9th Circuit Apellate Court has granted the DOJ and Obama Administration’s request for a stay on Judge Phillip’s DADT ruling. This is the same court who granted the temporary stay last week. DADT will stick around for a while it seems. With this latest stay, the 9th Circuit Court has rendered the injunction [...]
Eric Ethington (Author) | October 1, 2010
Iowa – Chief Justice Marsha Ternus spoke to a crowd last night defending the State Supreme Court’s ruling making same-sex marriage legal in 2009. Ternus and 2 other justices are up for a retention vote this November, and the right-wing loony tunes are pushing hard to kick them out. I wonder when groups like Mormon-owned [...]
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-Paul Mero, The Sutherland Institute.