NEW YORK — The bipartisan legal team leading the fight for same-sex marriage has a book deal.
Democrat David Boies and Republican Theodore B. Olson have signed with Viking for “A Just Cause: Law, Love, and the Case for Marriage Equality.” Viking told The Associated Press that the book is scheduled for mid-2014.
“Our collective journey tells of a crucial and historical civil rights movement that brings us closer to the ideals on which our country was founded,” Boies, 71, said in a statement issued by Viking.
Olson, 72, said he and Boies between them have “nearly 100 years in the law.”
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“We have never handled a more important, dramatic and emotionally compelling challenge,” he said in a statement.
Boies and Olson have formed an unlikely partnership to represent the challengers to Proposition 8, approved by California voters in 2008. The ballot initiative overturned a state Supreme Court decision allowing gay marriage. Justices on the U.S. Supreme Court will hear arguments in the California case on March 26.
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Viking, an imprint of Penguin Group (USA), promised the Boies-Olson book will be a “dramatic, intimate, and informed account of this historic issue.”
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