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Proposition 8, known informally as Prop 8, was a California ballot proposition and a state constitutional amendment intended to ban same-sex marriage; it passed in the November 2008 California state elections and was later overturned in court.
Proposition 8 added "Only marriage between a man and a woman is valid or recognized in California" to the California Constitution. [4] Proposition 8 was the most expensive proposition in United States history and sharply divided social conservatives and social liberals, as part of the ongoing American culture wars. The ballot initiative was ...
The California Supreme Court heard several challenges to Proposition 8 in March 2009, [13] but ultimately upheld the amendment, though the over 18,000 same-sex marriages that were performed before the amendment was passed remained valid. In the wake of Proposition 8's passage, California continued to allow domestic partnerships.
Just last week, California voters formally removed Proposition 8 from the state Constitution and enshrined the right to marry. Olson was born in Chicago in 1940 and grew up in Mountain View, Calif.
A daily look at legal news and the business of law: Bias vs. Bias: Judge Walker Is Gay -- and Conservative In the wake of federal Judge Vaughn Walker's ruling that California's Proposition 8 gay ...
Hollingsworth v. Perry was a series of United States federal court cases that re-legalized same-sex marriage in the state of California. The case began in 2009 in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California, which found that banning same-sex marriage violates equal protection under the law.
Strauss v. Horton, 46 Cal. 4th 364, 93 Cal. Rptr. 3d 591, 207 P.3d 48 (2009), was a decision of the Supreme Court of California, the state's highest court.It resulted from lawsuits that challenged the voters' adoption of Proposition 8 on November 4, 2008, which amended the Constitution of California to outlaw same-sex marriage.
Proposition 6 is a measure that would have amended California’s Constitution to “bar slavery in any form and repeal a current provision allowing involuntary servitude,” the latter being the ...