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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.
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.
In a thorough and devastatingly clear opinion, Judge Vaughn Walker dismantles the "case" made by proponents of California's Proposition 8. After summarizing the testimony witness by witness, Judge ...
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 ...
The other proposition received a higher number of votes and so, under the California constitution, it took precedence. [2] Section 28 finally provided that prior felony convictions "shall subsequently be used without limitation for purposes of impeachment or enhancement of sentence in any criminal proceeding".
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.
The Case Against 8 is an American documentary film, which premiered at the 2014 Sundance Film Festival on January 18, 2014. Directed and produced by Ben Cotner and Ryan White, the film documents the legal battle to overturn California's Proposition 8, [1] focusing in particular on behind-the-scenes footage of David Boies and Theodore Olson during the Perry v.