As anticipated, a formal appeal has been filed against Judge Vaughn Walker’s Wednesday decision to overturn Prop. 8, The Advocate reports.
The appeal was filed Thursday morning, sending the case to the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals. The appeal will be heard by a randomly-selected three judge panel, which has no deadlines to hear the case.
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U.S. District Judge Vaughn Walker will hear one full day of closing arguments from both sides of the Proposition 8 trial on Wednesday, some five months after rigorous testimony concluded. Attorneys for the plaintiff – high-profile litigators David Boies and Ted Olson – feel the defense faltered in January when its “witnesses acknowledged that they [...]

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More than a dozen mainstream media outlets drafted and delivered a letter to U.S. District Court Judge Vaughn Walker last month to petition a broadcast of the closing arguments in California’s Proposition 8 trial. That request was denied by Chief U.S. District Judge Vaughn Walker in a brief order Wednesday night.
Walker said the Proposition 8 [...]

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More than a dozen mainstream media outlets drafted and delivered a letter to U.S. District Court Judge Vaughn Walker this week to petition a broadcast of the closing arguments in California’s Proposition 8 trial. Before the trial got underway in January, Walker sought approval for a limited live broadcast of the proceedings, as well as [...]

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An appeal filed by California gay rights groups Equality California, No on Proposition 8, and the Campaign for Marriage Equality that sought to overturn a federal judge’s order forcing them to surrender documents related to Proposition 8, has been rejected by a Federal three-panel judge.
The groups argued that the documents are confidential internal communications protected [...]

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Per last week’s post about the informative New York Times forum, featuring Proposition 8 trial attorneys David Boies and Ted Olson, 365gay.com and the Times have released the entire event video for your perusal.
Click here to check out the video.

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A Q&A session held last night by the New York Times‘ gay and lesbian affinity employee group featured Proposition 8 trial super attorneys David Boies, and Ted Olson. 365Gay.com editor-in-chief Jennifer Vanasco attended the session, and filed a synopsis of the events, reporting that Olson and Boies were “amazing” as they were asked tough questions [...]

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Though closing arguments have yet to be scheduled for the trial concerning the constitutionality of Proposition 8 in California, at least one thing is experiencing closure: a broadcast, in any way, of any of the proceedings!
When the trial began in early January, Chief Judge Vaughn Walker initially made a request to broadcast the trial from [...]

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This week’s outed secret/not-secret that Chief Judge Vaughn Walker – the presiding judge in the Proposition 8 trial, which ended last week – has prompted National Organization for Marriage Director Brian Brown to accuse Walker of bias against the defense in the trial.
Read the official statement, addressed to “Friends of Marriage,” here.
Brown pointed to two [...]

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Interesting how it was never brought up during perhaps one of the most high-profile gay rights/gay marriage legal cases ever that the Judge presiding over the case was himself gay. But, many San Francisco politicians and gay rights activists aren’t exactly relieved – or surprised – by Walker’s orientation.
“There is nothing about Walker as a [...]

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