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10 Oct, 2007 12:42 pm
... the plaintiff's voluntary dismissal of the case. On Oct. 9, a Massachusetts federal judge granted Stephen Dunne's request to dismiss his case against the bar examination testing agency, ... on the state's bar exam concerning homosexual marriage. In a lawsuit filed
in June, Dunne claimed he failed the Massachusetts bar examination because he didn't answer a question about homosexual marriage. The website
Stephen Dunne launched to help fund the case, www.christianlawsuit.com, has been taken down. Will ...
6 Apr, 2007 5:57 pm
One of my favorvite books is Different Hours. The Party After I buried the century's putrid corpse and resolved to rid the world of utopias and the fat which had collected around my
waist, I kissed the lovely one I was with and a few others I might as easily have slugged. How festive it was at the mausoleum! Even I wanted to dance the tarantella until dawn, make
love shamelessly in the open. A few enemies extended their hands and when the famous sentimentalist spoke about his inner weather my ...
10 Jan, 2008 10:35 am
... failing the Massachusetts bar exam, blaming it on a question about gay marriage? Well, he's sorry. From the Boston Herald: Stephen
Dunne said he was "embarrassed" for being an "instrument of bigotry and prejudice," in a letter to the editor and interview in the Jan. ... of
same-sex marriage, I have regrettably perpetuated intolerance and animosity towards my fellow Americans," Dunne said in his letter. "My
religiously based discrimination of gay people was callous and diametrically opposed to America ...
7 Jul, 2007 8:49 am
... agency, the state Supreme Judicial Court and four individual justices for constitutional violations. In his pro se complaint, Plaintiff Stephen Dunne seeks preliminary and permanent injunctions barring the defendants from considering the question in
regard to his application to practice law and from enforcing the question in the current or future bar examinations. Dunne is also seeking a
jury trial and unspecified compensatory and punitive damages. Stephen Dunne v. The ...
13 Jul, 2007 7:56 am
Last week we brought you news of Stephen Dunne, the would-be Massachusetts lawyer who's suing the
state Board of Bar Examiners, claiming that he failed the bar ... and justice, and I wanted to be very clear about that." Now we hear from the same site that Dunne has created a website that solicits donations to fund his lawsuit: www.christianlawsuit.com. Here's Dunne
himself: I plan on hiring America's #1 Law Firm to help me win this case. Justice is expensive in America, but with your support it can ...
3 Jul, 2007 11:04 am
... excruciating it would be to fail. Especially by only 1.134 points! That's what happened to Stephen Dunne, who narrowly failed the Massachusetts bar exam and is now suing the Board ... also asking for a cool $9,750,000. Lavi Soloway has the scoop:
Dunne claims his score of 268.866 on the November 2006 bar exam just ... he didn't follow the proscribed format for an unlawful question about
gay marriage. Dunne said the question required applicants to "affirmatively accept, support and promote homosexual ...
1 Jul, 2007 12:24 am
... exam that he recently failed. This week's National Law Journal reports that Stephen Dunne has
filed suit in a Massachusetts federal court claiming that he would ... promote homosexual marriage and homosexual parenting" in violation of his religious beliefs. Dunne has also raised equal protection, due process and commerce clause ... he has filed pro se. UPDATE: Here is the full text of the complaint in
Dunne v. Massachusetts Board of Bar Examiners. [Thanks to Dispatches From the Culture Wars for posting ...
22 Aug, 2007 3:30 pm
... him away from your bathroom. [WSJ Law Blog] * Eager to soak the rich (hedge fund kings)? Good luck with that. [DealBreaker] * Remember the wacky Stephen Dunne, who blames the gays for his bar failure? Not being admitted may be the least of his problems.
[Keeping Up With Jonas] * A funny parody? Or a disturbingly accurate account of how the law review submission process works? [Concurring Opinions] * Truth in advertising? ...
11 Sep, 2007 1:08 am
Law school graduate Stephen Dunn who challenged the February Massachusetts bar exam in federal court on Free Exercise grounds has now
filed a motion asking the court to dismiss his lawsuit. (Full text of motion to ... to answer an essay question on gay marriage, the bar examiners were calling on him to promote views
that violate his religious beliefs. Dunn's motion to dismiss says that by excluding questions on gay marriage on the most recent bar exam, bar examiners have assured that future
exam ...
2 Jul, 2007 1:04 am
... the test administration agency, the state Supreme Judicial Court and four individual justices for constitutional violations. Stephen
Dunne says the question required applicants to "affirmatively accept, support and promote homosexual marriage and homosexual parenting," ...
Trial The National Law Journal A federal judge in Los Angeles has ordered an attorney for civil rights lawyer Stephen Yagman to respond to
claims made by a "concerned" juror in his criminal trial. Yagman was convicted on June 22 ...
3 Aug, 2007 9:53 am
Following up on yesterday's post about Stephen Dunne, who failed the Massachusetts Bar exam because
he wouldn't answer a question touching on gay marriage, I've got some weekend reading for everybody, if they're interested. First, head over to Dunne's site and take a look as his (amended) complaint filed in federal court. Second, take a look at the Bar's motion to dismiss, supporting memorandum
6 Aug, 2007 10:09 am
As advertised, I took some time over the weekend to review some pleadings in the Stephen Dunne case.
Dunne, you'll recall, took the Massachusetts Bar exam and refused to answer a question that touched on gay marriage. As a result, he failed (by
a little more than a point) the test and was denied membership in the Bar. He has taken his gripe to federal court. I went into the weekend with as
10 Sep, 2007 12:20 pm
A sensible plan for Iraq? Maybe, but it's been employed by Stephen Dunne to extricate himself from
his bogus lawsuit against the Massachusetts state bar. Dunne asked the court to dismiss his suit because the offending question did not
reappear on the July version of the bar exam. He says it is a "corrective action." The bar disagrees:But in court documents filed yesterday, the board's
10 Jan, 2008 8:58 am
Stephen Dunne, the law school grad who filed a federal lawsuit against Massachusetts bar
administrators after failing the bar exam, is now apologizing to the gay community for his "misguided" action. Dunne's pro se complaint alleged
that he failed the...
15 Jan, 2008 5:00 pm
... first meeting. Thanks to Michael Atkins (Seattle Trademark Lawyer) for hosting the event. Michael is "livin large" in his office at Graham and Dunn, right on Pier 70 looking
out at Elliot Bay. The view was incredible. I was surprised by the turnout. Bloggers came down from Canada to ... the Blogroll in my sidebar. I am anxiously waiting to get the photos
from the event to post in the Blog. Once again, thanks to all that came and to Michael and his partners at Graham and Dunn for hosting this event.
16 Feb, 2008 1:02 pm
... , Ralph Losey, Randy Cadenhead, Richard Hall, Richard Maizels, Rick Wolf, Rob Holloway, Santoshmurthy Vashista, Saul Lieberman, Shandon Gunter, Shyam Varan Nath, Simon Chester,
Stathis Mihos, Stephanie West Allen, Stephen Dunne, Steven Davies, Sugiarto Setiabudi, Susan Cartier
Liebel, Susan Diehl, Susan Dunn, Tariq Hafeez, Tim Erby, Tim Parnell, Tim van Gelder, and Trevor Hill. Thirty others left comments but not their full ...
9 Jul, 2007 12:42 pm
The bar exam works like this - you a presented with a fact pattern and question. You're expected to spot the issues and apply the law as it exists, regardless of your opinion on the
correctness of that law. Stephen Dunne must have missed that day of bar review. He is suing the state
bar of Massachusetts because *shudder* the bar exam had a question that involved gay marriage. Stephen was so
20 Oct, 2008 12:58 pm
... like this has ever happened to me before! [UPDATE: So, I almost lost consciousness again when I saw the list of previous winners of the Prize. The list (going back to 1994) includes
W.S. Merwin, Charles Wright, Carl Dennis, Billy Collins, Stephen Dunn, Stephen Dobyns, William
Logan, Joel Brouwer, and a number of other fine poets. Good Lord, but this isn't the sort of company I ever thought I'd find myself in!].
5 Apr, 2007 4:00 am
... Need, how they sat down with him, helped like untrained helpers arrange the hours that followed. Evening was their time. He remembered, of course, the lovely hours-- the body's
sudden holidays, prolonged fiestas of the mind. He rewound and rewound. -- Stephen Dunn (from "Different Hours") The Hours...the hours.
I wish I could rewind. To redo this year in different ways, to have more time on my thesis, to go back to ...
6 May, 2007 2:03 pm
... of their first son. On March 23, after a bitter court battle, the case settled with the ex-wife agreeing to have all child support canceled. Richardson v. Luria, No. 91-7019-DM (Bay
Co., Mich., Cir. Ct.). The woman's lawyer, Robert Dunn, a solo practitioner based in Bay City, Mich., was unavailable for comment. Meanwhile, Kelly, of Kelly & Kelly in
Northville, Mich., said this case is just the tip of the iceberg. "One case is just more outrageous than the next," she said. According to a ...
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