Prop. 8 Supporters Want Judge To Return Trial Tapes
The sponsors of California's same-sex marriage ban want the now-retired federal judge who declared Proposition 8 unconstitutional to surrender videotapes of the trial that led to his ruling.
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The sponsors of California's same-sex marriage ban want the now-retired federal judge who declared Proposition 8 unconstitutional to surrender videotapes of the trial that led to his ruling.
Chief U.S. District Judge Vaughn Walker retired in February, several months after his landmark decision that's being challenged in an appeals court.
A federal appeals court in San Francisco has turned down a bid to allow gay marriages to resume in California while the Prop. 8 legal case is pending.
An advocacy group says Anne Hathaway, Martin Sheen and Jane Lynch are among a group of celebrities urging President Obama to support marriage rights for same-sex couples...
Lawyers for sponsors of California's gay marriage ban said Monday the Obama administration's refusal to defend a federal law prohibiting government recognition of same-sex marriages has no bearing on the state law.
California's attorney general has asked a federal appeals court to allow gay marriages to resume while the court considers the constitutionality of the state's ban on same-sex unions.
The sponsors of Proposition 8 so far have taken the lead in defending the voter-approved law in court, after former Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger and former Attorney General Jerry Brown refused to do so.
In a major policy reversal being cheered by the gay community in the Bay Area, the Obama administration said Wednesday it would no longer defend the constitutionality of a federal law banning recognition of same-sex marriage.
There were two major developments Wednesday in the legal battle over same-sex marriage. President Obama decided to stop defending the federal ban on gay marriage, and gay couples in California are asking a federal court to let same sex weddings resume here immediately.
The State Supreme Court is going to decide whether to jump back into the legal issues surrounding the Proposition 8 same sex marriage initiative.
Same-sex marriage advocates protested California's ban on gay marriage at San Francisco City Hall Monday, where heterosexual couples showed up throughout the day to tie the knot on Valentine's Day.
Gay couples will be allowed to renew their marriage vows at San Diego County's Valentine's Day Tradition on the Bay.
California's new chief justice said the decade or more it takes a typical death penalty appeal to make its way through California courts is too long and too expensive, but stopped short of saying how the process might be reformed.
A federal appeals court in San Francisco made two critical decisions on Tuesday in the Proposition 8 case.
One thing that both sides in California's same-sex marriage debate seemed to agree on now that a federal appeals court has heard the case: it will be a waiting game.
A federal appeals court began hearing arguments Monday on whether California's same-sex marriage ban is constitutional in a hearing televised nationally.
A large crowd gathered Monday morning outside a federal courthouse on Seventh Street in San Francisco, where a three-judge appeals court panel is hearing arguments on the constitutionality of California's Proposition 8.
Sponsors of California's same-sex marriage ban are hoping a federal appeals court will reverse a judge's decision which overturned Proposition 8.
UPDATE: A federal judge on a panel hearing an appeal over the legality of California's same-sex marriage ban said Thursday he would not step down from the case as Prop 8 sponsors has hoped.
Sponsors of California's same-sex marriage ban on Wednesday asked one of the judges from the appeals court panel that will hear arguments on the measure's constitutionality next week to remove himself from the case.
The random selection of three judges to hear next week's appeal in the Proposition 8 federal case could not have gone much better for supporters of same-sex marriage.
The federal appeal of California's gay marriage ban case will be decided by two judges appointed by Democratic presidents and one named by a Republican.
An upcoming appeals court hearing on the constitutionality of California's same-sex marriage ban will be televised.
The court indicated that it first wanted to hear arguments about whether anyone even had a legal standing to try to reinstate the ban on same sex marriage.
Democratic Sen. Barbara Boxer waded into friendly terrain Wednesday, telling a group of gays and lesbians that she is a champion of gay rights.
