California Supreme Court

The state banned license plates that show “contempt for a specific group or person.” A judge said that violates free speech protections.

Calling his partner “a wonderful man,” Martin Jenkins talked about coming out: “I denied myself for so long. And now I’m happy.”

“I felt compelled to make a choice now,” she said. “It better suits what I do and how I approach issues.”

She knows where the movement should go, but it’ll be up to the new generation to take us there.

Scott Wiener foiled a would-be mugging over the holidays, but two of his assailants are still at large.

SAN FRANCISCO — The California Supreme Court refused Wednesday to halt gay marriages in the state, leaving opponents of same-sex weddings few – if any – legal options to stop the unions.

SAN FRANCISCO — The California Supreme Court is refusing to order the state to stop issuing marriage licenses to same-sex couples.

SAN FRANCISCO — Opponents of same-sex marriage demanded Friday that the California Supreme Court immediately halt the practice that recently resumed in the nation’s largest state after a nine-year legal battle.

SAN FRANCISCO — A federal appeals court on Monday agreed to consolidate the appeal of the 2010 ruling that declared California’s Proposition 8 as unconstitutional, with the appeal of another federal judge’s refusal to vacate the ruling on the grounds that the presiding judge was biased.

SAN FRANCISCO — In a unanimous ruling Thursday, the California Supreme Court said that Proposition 8 sponsors have the legal right to defend the state’s ban on same sex marriage.