LA Times article on the upholding of Proposition 8:
“The justices uphold the same-sex marriage ban but also rule that the 18,000 gay couples who wed before November will stay married. The decision is sure to spark another ballot box fight.”
American Foundation for Equal Rights is supporting the lawsuit filed by top litigators Ted Olson and David Boies.
Above the Law has a post on the backstory of the Sonia Sotomayor nomination for the U.S. Supreme Court:
“This afternoon, we participated in a conference call between a senior Administration official and several reporters, to discuss the Sotomayor nomination. Here’s a quick write-up of the call.”
SCOTUS Blog discusses the likely lines of attack that will be directed at her:
” But the most extreme interest groups and ideologues are transparently uninterested in that reasoned debate as they rush to caricature the nominee and the opposing viewpoint.”
Deng Yu Jiao, a female hotel worker in Hunan province, China, stabbed to death a local party after he demanded sex from her. There’s been a lot of public support for her case and she’s been promised a fair trial.
NYC Comptroller William Thompson has issued a report declaring that marriage equality for LGBT couples would garner the state an additional $210M in revenue in the first three years. [Joe.My.God]
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An article at RH Reality Check analyzes AT&T vs. Hulteen:
“The case examined the pension payments for a number of former female employees of AT&T who had taken maternity leave before passage of the Pregnancy Discrimination Act, which clarified that under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act pregnancy discrimination counted as sex discrimination. Now, AT&T is defining unpaid maternity of these employees as personal leave from the company. Â And the court has now ruled that such personal leave doesn’t and shouldn’t count toward these women’s pensions.”
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