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8 Sep 2009, 9:05 am
(National law Journal) While the high-profile, Ted Olson- and David Boies-managed legal fight against GLAD Counsel Janson WuCalifornia’s Proposition 8 captures headlines, a carefully planned case quietly underway in Massachusetts federal court could be the gay marriage test with the greatest national impact. [read post]
31 Aug 2009, 10:31 pm
As a recent article in the National Law Journal points out, although the Boies/Olson litigation in federal court in California has gotten more press attention, litigation currently pending in federal court in Massachusetts may win the race to the Supreme Court. [read post]
31 Aug 2009, 5:30 am
Thus, if Davoid Boies and Ted Olson go forward in litigating their intended federal constitutional challenge to same-sex marriage, we might see the court hearing any case by Smelt and Hammer to defer to the larger, group litigation. [read post]
24 Aug 2009, 5:16 am
Schwarzenneger, the federal lawsuit against Prop. 8, Theodore Olson last week filed a supplemental case management statement on behalf of plaintiff same-sex couples. [read post]
20 Aug 2009, 6:00 am
Olson and Mr. [read post]
19 Aug 2009, 2:06 pm
If Olson and Boies can get the federal courts to hold that way, then all the state constitutional amendments and DOMA statutes - barriers to same-sex marriage that have been erected in about 40 states - become constitutionally suspect and the possibility of same-sex marriage being available and recognized throughout the United States becomes possible. [read post]
19 Aug 2009, 8:15 am
The NY Times has an interesting story about Ted Olson’s participation in the same-sex marriage case out of California. [read post]
19 Aug 2009, 7:23 am
The NYT has a nice piece on Ted Olson, the conservative stalwart appellate attorney who's helping to drive a federal challenge to California's Prop 8. [read post]
17 Aug 2009, 10:37 am
The San Jose Mercury News today led me to renew my search of these filings:Proposition 8 backers, however, are also trying to keep an anti-gay marriage group, the Campaign for California Families, out of the case. [read post]
16 Aug 2009, 2:15 pm
That marital rape was protected for an additional century speaks to the lingering idea that rape within marriage was an oxymoron — marriage bestowed consent to sex, all the time. [read post]
12 Aug 2009, 6:06 pm
Plaintiff lawyer Ted Olson of Gibson Dunn & Crutcher issued an optimistic statement. [read post]
12 Aug 2009, 8:13 am
But the effect was to make exit from marriage almost impossible. [read post]
10 Aug 2009, 5:40 am
This is an utterly irrational restriction premised on nothing more than longstanding misconceptions about and prejudice toward gay and lesbian individuals. (10-11)In fact, Boies and Olson reach for arguments against any ban of same-sex marriage, whether or not same-sex couples have an option for domestic partnerships that would give them some or almost all of the rights, duties, and protections of marriage.Why are the LGBT Groups and SF so concerned to develop the factual record… [read post]
7 Aug 2009, 5:50 am
(SF Superior Court, CJC-04-004365).Today represents the deadline for Olson and Boies to file opposition to motions to intervene by Lamda Legal and other gay rights groups, and by the city of San Francisco. [read post]
30 Jul 2009, 9:11 pm
Professor Tobias Wolff argues at Huffington Post that advocates for marriage equality need to get behind the federal challenge to Prop 8 filed by high-profile attorneys Ted Olson and David Boies: When the Olson and Boies team first filed their... [read post]
27 Jul 2009, 10:27 am
" While Olson appears to have in mind an amicus brief by the ACLU and other gay rights groups, his funding organization, the American Foundation For Equal Rights, has objected to anoth form of support that Olson carefully avoids mentioning - the motion of gay rights groups to intervene.Asked about the rationale for challenging Prop. 8 in federal court, Olson said,Not everyone is going to agree with the legal strategy, but we think we are at the right place at the… [read post]
21 Jul 2009, 10:53 am
The suit aims to end California's ban on same sex marriage. [read post]
20 Jul 2009, 5:38 am
07/20/09 Wall Street Journal (source: ADF Alliance Alert):Recently, Ted Olson and I brought a lawsuit asking the courts to now declare unconstitutional California's Proposition 8 limitation of marriage to people of the opposite sex. [read post]
16 Jul 2009, 4:11 am
The Olson/Boies team wants to zip up to the Supreme Court and make an all or nothing stand. [read post]
5 Jul 2009, 10:29 pm
As I discussed earlier, I share the concern of LGBT lawyers who worry that the federal court litigation now being pursued by uber-lawyers David Boies and Ted Olson to overturn California's Prop 8 could backfire, and set back the cause of same-sex marriage by a decade. [read post]
