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• Advertising with Impunity on Craigslist, Foreclosed-Home Strippers Avoid Sanctions

  
  ABA Journal — Authority: 681
  When a potential buyer walks into a foreclosed home, it isnt unusual to see gaping, often jagged holes where items of value including appliances, cabinets, countertops, sinks, toilets and doors, among other items of value, used to be. And it isnt just ordinary thieves who are doing the stripping. Soon-to-be-former ...
  1 day ago

• Obama administration denies insurance benefits to lesbian wife

  
  Amorian — Authority: 124
  The San Francisco Chronicle featured a story about a lesbian couple where were suing to get federal insurance benefits.  A federal judge in the 9th Circuit Court order the Feds to given insurance benefits to the lesbian wife.  The Obama administration refused to comply.  A federal law exists that forbids the feds ...
  6 days ago

• Will Federal Challenge to Same-Sex Marriage Ban Be on TV? Maybe

  
  ABA Journal — Authority: 681
  An experimental program adopted Thursday by the judicial council for the San Francisco-based 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals will allow televised civil bench trials, on a case-by-case basis. The chief judges of each of the circuits 15 districts will decide which cases may be recorded or broadcast, in consultation ...
  1 week ago

• CA: Appeals Court Asked to Reconsider Prop 8 Campaign Document Decision

  
  Gay Marriage Watch — Authority: 148
  Judges of the U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals will vote soon on whether to reconsider their decision last week denying gay rights advocates access to internal communications of Proposition 8 supporters who succeeded in getting voters to ban same-sex marriage last year. In a terse announcement filed this ...
  1 week ago

• Supreme Court to Decide Privacy Rights of Texting Government Employees

  
  ABA Journal — Authority: 681
  The U.S. Supreme Court has agreed to decide whether police officers have a constitutional right to privacy in their personal text messages sent on city-owned pagers. The Supreme Court will review a ruling by the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals that found the officers have a reasonable expectation of privacy in the ...
  1 week ago

• CA: 9th Circuit Says Prop 8 Backers Dont Have to Release Campaign Documents

  
  Gay Marriage Watch — Authority: 148
  A federal appeals court in San Francisco has reversed a judges order that backers of Proposition 8, the state initiative that banned same-sex marriage, give their campaign strategy documents to opponents trying to overturn the measure. In a unanimous ruling Friday, the Ninth U.S. Circuit of Appeals tossed out the ...
  1 week ago

• Kozinski’s Turducken Dissent Sets Up Cert Petition in Privacy Case

  
  ABA Journal — Authority: 681
  The government is asking the U.S. Supreme Court to overturn a federal appeals court ruling allowing engineers and scientists to pursue a suit that claims newly instituted background checks invade their privacy. The plaintiffs, employees of NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, contend the government wants to ask friends ...
  2 weeks ago

• 9th Circuit Likely to Overturn Prop 8 Campaign Document Disclosure Order

  
  Gay Marriage Watch — Authority: 148
  Looks like Northern District of California Chief Judge Vaughn Walker is going to suffer his first reversal in the federal challenge to Proposition 8. The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals continued a stay of Walkers order forcing the Yes on 8 campaign to turn over internal documents and e-mails to challengers of the ...
  2 weeks ago

• US court blocks huge gold mine project in Nevada

  
  Stupidica — Authority: 177
  US court blocks huge gold mine project in Nevada Posted on December 3, 2009 at 6:31 PM RENO, Nev. (AP) — A federal appeals court on Thursday temporarily blocked construction of a massive gold mine project in northeast Nevada that critics say would harm the environment and ruin a mountain that several tribes consider ...
  3 weeks ago

• CA: Hearing Held Tuesday on Prop 8 Disclosure Order

  
  Gay Marriage Watch — Authority: 148
  Lawyers for two gay couples told a federal appeals court Tuesday that they need access to internal communications from last years Proposition 8 campaign to show that the measure banning same-sex marriage was designed to sow "discriminatory animus" toward gays and lesbians. Supporters of the measure that ...
  3 weeks ago

• CA: Hearing Held Tuesday on Prop 8 Disclosure Order

  
  OutGayLife.com — Authority: 150
  Lawyers for two gay couples told a federal appeals court Tuesday that they need access to internal communications from last years Proposition 8 campaign to show that the measure banning same-sex marriage was designed to sow "discriminatory animus" toward gays and lesbians. Supporters of the measure that ...
  3 weeks ago

• Administration’s Highest Ranking Gay Employee Ordered to Deny Gay/Lesbian Partner Benefits?

  
  OutGayLife.com — Authority: 150
  Back in February I posted about a ruling by a 9th Circuit Court of Appeals judge regarding the offering of health benefits to the spouse of a lesbian employee in a decision it appeared would directly challenge DOMA. Michelangelo Signorile points out some troubling activity on this case which was just written up in ...
  3 weeks ago

• CA: Prop 8 Sponsors Appeal Campaign Record Decision to 9th Circuit

  
  Gay Marriage Watch — Authority: 148
  A federal appeals court has agreed to consider whether the sponsors of Californias gay marriage ban must turn over some internal campaign records as part of a lawsuit against Proposition 8. Protect Marriage, the coalition of religious and social conservative groups behind Prop. 8, wants to safeguard its private ...
  4 weeks ago

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