All posts tagged "ted olson"
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Prop 8 Opponents Ask Supreme Court to Not Consider Case
Plaintiffs in the lawsuit against California’s Proposition 8 requested the Supreme Court not consider an appeal from defendants to hear arguments on the case in...
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BREAKING: Ninth Circuit Passes on Further Review of Prop 8 Case, Setting Up Appeal to Supreme Court
The federal appeals court hearing the challenge to California’s Proposition 8 passed on taking another look at the ruling. The decision today by the U.S. Court...
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California Supreme Court Says Prop 8 Proponents Can Bring Appeal, Ninth Circuit Likely To Consider Appeal’s Merits
The California Supreme Court, in a unanimous opinion, has told the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit that the proponents of Proposition 8...
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Critical Court
California Supreme Court Justice Ming Chin asked the lead counsel seeking to overturn the state's 2008 initiative amending the state's constitution to ban same-sex couples...
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Going Gaga for New York Marriage Equality
Over the course of the past hour, Lady Gaga — who had been very involved in the 2010 “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” repeal efforts —...
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Prop 8 Lawyers Olson and Boies Make Their Case — in D.C.
[Photo: Attorneys Ted Olson, left, and David Boies — who are co-counsel in the lawsuit challenging Proposition 8 — talk after a lunch forum at...
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News Analysis: When Is a (DOMA Litigation Cost) Cap Not a Cap?
On Monday, April 18, news broke that King & Spalding partner Paul Clement would be the lead outside counsel representing the House’s Bipartisan Legal Advisory...
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Olson's Stand
Calling it a matter of ''human dignity,'' lawyer Ted Olson addressed the board and other supporters of the Human Rights Campaign on Saturday, March 5,...
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Prop 8 Lawsuit Lawyers Ask Ninth Circuit to Lift Stay and Allow California Same-Sex Marriages
Moments after the U.S. Department of Justice announced that it would no longer be defending challenges to Section 3 of the Defense of Marriage Act,...
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Parties In Prop 8 Case Spar Over Standing, State Law Questions
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, in considering whether the proponents of California’s Proposition 8 even have the legal ability to appeal...
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Battle of the Brains: Reinhardt and Olson Spar, Nicely, Over Prop 8 Litigation Decisions
Ted Olson, on a conference call today with reporters, defended the litigation decisions made by his team in Perry v. Schwarzenegger, the challenge to Proposition...
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Metro Weekly’s Prop 8 Argument Summary
Here’s the FAQ about today’s two-hour oral argument in Perry v. Schwarzenegger, which is now under way before the three-judge panel of the U.S Court...
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Prop 8 Argument Day FAQ
The topic of same-sex marriage — particularly, marriage in California — has popped into the public’s eye with regularity over the past two-and-a-half years. On...
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Eight Days in a Changed World
During the next eight days, efforts aimed at stopping discrimination in two of the most traditionally conservative (and heterosexual) of institutions – marriage and the...
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On Your TVs …
If you aren’t a “watch the Sunday shows” type, then you probably missed these two remarkable exchanges about the Proposition 8 trial ruling. First, conservative...
