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.

SAN FRANCISCO — The California Supreme Court on Wednesday issued notice that it will rule Thursday whether proponents of California’s Proposition 8 have “legal standing” to defend the 2008 voter-approved law ban on same-sex marriage.

Calling it an “unthinkable blow to California’s democratic system of government if the handful of individuals who sponsored Prop 8 could make decisions for the entire state,” Kate Kendell, Executive Director of the NCLR, on Tuesday said that proponents of Proposition 8 should not be allowed to “usurp duly elected officials.”

On Tuesday, Sept. 6, the California Supreme Court will hear arguments as to whether there is any authority under California law that gives Yes on 8 the right to appeal a ruling that struck down the state ban on same-sex marriage when state officials decided not to.

It’s ironic that the National Organization for Marriage spent over 1.8 million in the effort to pass California’s Proposition 8, but was nowhere to be seen when it came to defending it in court…

California Attorney General Kamala Harris submitted a brief to the state’s Supreme Court earlier this week, arguing that state law does not allow the supporters of Proposition 8 — the 2008 voter approved ban on gay marriage — the right to defend the measures in court.

SAN FRANCISCO — The U.S. Court of Appeals panel hearing the Proposition 8 case on Wednesday denied a request by plaintiffs to lift the stay on the lower court’s ruling in their favor. Had the three-judge panel granted the request, same-sex couples in California would have been able to obtain marriage licenses immediately. In refusing […]

Please read the open letter below from Ed Watson, watch the video, and if you are moved as I am, click this link to sign the petition to ask the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, to lift the stay of marriage equality in California.

The California Supreme Court on Tuesday rejected a request by the attorneys fighting Proposition 8 to expedite the time line for deciding a key legal question of standing.

SAN FRANCISCO — The California Supreme Court has signaled that it will decide soon on whether to enter the Proposition 8 gay marriage dispute currently on appeal in a federal appellate court.