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  • Proposition 8 challenged in federal court

    05/27/2009 11:39:55 AM PDT · by SmithL · 43 replies · 1,734+ views
    Sacramento Bee ^ | 5/27/9 | Steve Wiegand
    A strange-bedfellows duo of top constitutional lawyers said today they are challenging the legal validity of Proposition 8, the November 2008 ballot measure that prohibited same-sex marriages in California. Speaking at a Los Angeles press conference, attorneys Theodore B. Olson and David Boies said they had filed a suit in federal court on behalf of two gay California couples, and would seek an injunction to stay the law while arguing it is a violation of the equal-protection clause of the U.S. Constitution. Olson, a former U.S. solicitor general, represented former President George W. Bush in Bush v. Gore, which decided...