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Prop. 8 ruling expected Wednesday
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| Contributor | Homegrown Democrat |
| Last Edited | Homegrown Democrat Aug 03, 2010 08:53pm |
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| Category | General |
| Author | Bob Egelko |
| Media | Newspaper - San Francisco Chronicle |
| News Date | Wednesday, August 4, 2010 02:30:00 AM UTC0:0 |
| Description | SAN FRANCISCO -- A federal court ruling on the right of same-sex couples to marry in California is scheduled to be released Wednesday.
Chief U.S. District Judge Vaughn Walker of San Francisco will decide whether Proposition 8, the November 2008 initiative that defined marriage as the union of a man and a woman, violated gays' and lesbians' right of equality under the U.S. Constitution.
Walker presided over a nonjury trial in January, the first ever held in a federal court on the issue. The plaintiffs, two gay men from Burbank and two lesbians from Berkeley, testified that their hopes to be married were thwarted when voters overturned the May 2008 state Supreme Court ruling that legalized same-sex marriage. |
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