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Monday – Barbara Boxer In Fresno

Senator Barbara Boxer to visit Fresno TOMORRROW! Location: Ramada University 324 East Shaw Fresno, CA 93710 US Located on the north side of Shaw just west of Fresno Street and just east of FWY 41 Cost: $35 and up, RSVP to Democrats in Action [email protected] Time: TOMORROW, Monday, August 23rd, as per below, arrive EARLY, […]

BREAKING NEWS: Court Keeps Marriage Stay In Place

No same sex marriages in California for now. So don’t rush off to the County Clerk’s Office this Thursday. The court has issued a ruling to have the appeal in this case heard quickly, with the hearing scheduled for the week of December 6th. The ruling is below… I read an interesting theory on this

Protect Marriage Files Final Plea for Marriage Stay

My headache is back. Not because the final court filing by Protect Marriage to keep the marriage stay in place until an appeal holds any water, but because it goes over the same landscape as before, with some new twists. They start off by saying that it simply isn’t true that proponents of traditional marriage

VIDEO: Target Flash Mob

Target just keeps getting deeper and deeper…This is just the beginning of what may backfire for a lot of corporations as a result of the January ruling by the Supreme Court which insidiously granted corporations the rights of citizens, allowing them to make unlimited donations in the political arena. This "ruling" by the Supreme Court

This Week in Same Sex Marriage

Shortly after the appeal in the Prop 8 case was filed by the proponents of the law, the plaintiffs filed their own brief with the Ninth Circuit Court, countering the appeal for a stay with their own take on the matter. They’ve stated that the defendants plea "does not come close to showing they have

The Appeal Is In

  Well, the appeal has been filed in the Prop 8 case, and it’s something to read. Facts? They don’t need to refute the facts in Judge Walker’s case, since they will do enough just by telling you how his opinion runs contradictory to so many court opinions before him. (Way before him). They offer

Same Sex Marriage Stay LIFTED

Judge Vaughn Walker has ended the temporary stay on legal same sex marriage in the state of California. It’s expected that the opposition will attempt to have this overturned in the next few days but the merits of that plea may not hold up for the 9th District Court. Judge Walker has ruled that same

Walker Will Reveal Stay Status by Noon Thursday

Judge Vaughn Walker, the federal judge who issued the monumental ruling last week which overturned CA Prop 8, says he will issue his decision by Noon on Thursday (August 12, 2010) as to whether the stay he placed on the ruling will remain in place or will be removed.  Currently same sex couples are not