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... federal DOMA under the due process and equal protection clauses of the 14th Amendment. (See the Smelt complaint.) ADF joins intervenor ProtectMarriage.com - Yes On 8 , because these groups do not believe that California Attorney General Jerry Brown will provide an adequate defense of Prop. 8. I have already expressed misgiving about the credibility of the attorney, Richard G. Gilbert, who represents the plaintiff gay couple. Plaintiffs will avoid repeating ...

... senior attorneys at Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe also hold strong opinions about Prop. 8. Political divisions at the firm came to a head when Dean Criddle, a tax partner in the San Francisco office, made a $5,000 contribution to the Yes On 8 campaign. Upon learning of Criddle's contribution, his colleague in the tax department ... important issue. I urge each of you to make a contribution to No on 8, which can be sent as follows: No on 8 Equality California 2370 Market St. San Francisco, ...

... -sex couples to marry, if passed, The Recorder reported. Among those giving funds to the Yes on 8 campaign, which seeks a constitutional amendment banning same-sex marriage in California: Scott Roybal, a Sheppard Mullin partner (Los Angeles), gave $8,900 William Bunker, a Knobbe Martens partner (Orange County), gave ($5,000) Among those giving funds to the No on 8 campaign are federal prosecutor Ellyn Linsay, who gave $5,000, and Christopher Caldwell of L.A. litigation boutique Caldwell ...

... curriculum of the kind that Lesson 9 represents. In fact, that allegation was one of the statements that Prop. 8 proponents made in the ballot. (See page 56 of the ballot.) This lawsuit may hatch ... deny the right to marry to same-sex couples. They also contend that Prop. 8 has no bearing on whether public schools adopt a curriculum like AUSD' ... lawsuit supports. But the legal arguments will make no more difference in the next campaign by Yes on 8 than they did in the last one. So the lawsuit gives ...

... it violates the U.S. Constitution. Liberty Counsel is representing the Campaign for California Families (CCF). In November, ProtectMarriage.com / Yes on 8 opposed Liberty Counsel's motion to intervene on behalf of CCF in Strauss v. Horton. According to ... s attempts to become a named party in the lawsuit. "Campaign for California Families...actually campaigned against Proposition 8 until a short time before the election," the email read. "Since we are the only organization representing the official ...

We've written before about the Pepperdine law professor with a starring role in the Yes on 8 campaign. Richard Peterson is the guy who warns that gay marriage will imperil churches' tax-exempt status and cause kindergarteners to be taught tolerance: "Think it can't happen? It's already happened," he tells viewers. In an op-ed today, James Brosnahan is calling Peterson out for a debate. Meanwhile, a spoof ...

... on the AdSense Blog: "AdSense has had a VERY negative impact on my advertising lately. Yes on Prop 8 ads have been showing up for our California readers - our largest audience. We are a gay and lesbian blog so an ad advocating for discrimination against gays and ... seriously pissed off readers and have lost a good chunk of CA traffic because of this. I've blocked the URL protectmarriage.com now, but the ads keep showing up via different URLs. Please make it stop. I ...