Los Angeles and San Bernardino counties prepare for same-sex marriages
Even before the U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals lifted its stay on an injunction that ordered state officials to stop enforcing Proposition 8 on Friday, San Bernardino and Los Angeles County...
View ArticleCalifornia Prop. 8: Same-sex weddings take place in Bay Area after stay is...
With 10 simple words, the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals lifted the stay on gay marriage in California on Friday afternoon in a stunningly swift and surprising turn of events, opening the way for...
View ArticleSame-sex couple weds after 5 years of waiting in Sacramento
Nikola Simmersbach and Diana Luiz became the first Sacramento couple to wed after the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals lifted its same-sex marriage stay Friday, allowing same-sex couples to wed.
View ArticleNinth Circuit Court of Appeals Issues Order Clearing Way For Same-Sex...
Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals issues order clearing way for same-sex marriage to resume in California - @NBCLA Story metadata: Submitted 14 mins ago from twitter.com/NBCLA by partner First same-sex...
View ArticleNinth Circuit lifts California's ban on same sex marriage
This order comes after the Supreme Court's decision on Wednesday that upheld the invalidation of Proposition 8 [text, PDF; JURIST news archive ].
View ArticleSame-sex couples line up to be married
Dozens of gay couples waited excitedly Saturday outside of San Francisco's City Hall as clerks resumed issuing same-sex marriage licenses, one day after a federal appeals court cleared the way for the...
View ArticleSponsors of California gay-marriage ban file court motion to have "premature"...
Less than 24 hours after California started issuing marriage licenses to same-sex couples, lawyers for the sponsors of the state's gay marriage ban filed an emergency motion Saturday asking the U.S....
View ArticleGay marriage opponents challenge same-sex weddings in San Francisco
Less than 24 hours after California started issuing marriage licenses to same sex couples, lawyers for the sponsors of the state's gay marriage ban filed an emergency motion Saturday asking the U.S....
View ArticleSame-sex unions accelerating in Long Beach
Toni Roldan, left, and Carol Mayhew, right, wed at Edgewater Chapel Friday night in Long Beach's first same sex ceremony since Wednesday's court ruling.
View ArticleSame-sex marriages resume in California; San Diego awaiting official word
This image shows a sign posted at the San Diego County Clerk's Office Friday afternoon.
View ArticleHow many people did same-sex ruling affect?
Arriving at the Supreme Court in Washington, Wednesday, June 26, 2013, on a final day for decisions in two gay marriage cases are plaintiffs in the California Proposition 8 case.
View ArticleJustice Kennedy Shuts Down Prop. 8 Backers
Although he didn't vote with the majority that tossed out Prop. 8 on a technicality, Justice Anthony Kennedy declined an emergency petition from antigay activists desperate to stop same-sex marriages...
View ArticleGay Pride, Same-Sex Marriage Celebrations Spark Parade
Hundreds of thousands of people gathered in downtown San Francisco to watch the city's 43rd annual Pride Parade, and the crowd had even more to celebrate than in previous years.
View ArticleSame-Sex Marriage Emergency Stay Filed With SCOTUS
With the U.S. Supreme Court's ruling last week that opponents to same-sex marriage in California had no standing to appeal the overturn of Prop 8, same-sex marriage proponents were ready to fire up the...
View ArticleAmid Gridlock, Has Supreme Court Stepped In?
Woven into the Supreme Court's spirited legal opinions about marriage equality and voting rights last week was the germ of an idea other powerbrokers raised in their own ways simultaneously: When...
View ArticleCalifornia Teachers Suing to End Mandatory Union Dues
A group of California teachers is preparing for a Supreme Court battle to overturn forced union dues in a groundbreaking lawsuits filed in June.
View ArticleThanks to the Ninth Circuit, it's nearly time for me to skedaddle to Seattle
Thanks to the Ninth Circuit, it's nearly time for me to skedaddle to Seattle: Late next week, I am scheduled to make my first Ninth Circuit oral argument, before a three-judge panel consisting of...
View ArticleProp 8 Ruling Sparks Same-Sex Marriage Surge
Nearly five years after same-sex marriages came to a halt in California, brides and grooms to-be have begun to flock to get hitched in wake of the Supreme Court ruling to restore same-sex marriages in...
View ArticleSanta Clara County same-sex couples celebrate marriages on Monday
Eve and Trish Kedar celebrate as they walk out of the Santa Clara County Clerk-RecorderaAos Office as a married couple in San Jose, Calif.
View ArticleSame-Sex Marriages Abound in Bay Area
Melissa Myers and Alana Forrest, a Los Gatos-Monte Sereno police captain, get married in Santa Clara County.
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