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• The DOMA Decisions In The 9th Circuit

  
  Emptywheel — Authority: 703
  I have had several people ask me off blog about the “opinions” on the Defense Of Marriage Act (DOMA) that have surfaced recently in the 9th Circuit. I may write more later; but for now I want to lay out the sequence of facts and actions and start the discussion. The current issue really took flight last month ...
  7 hours ago

• Federal Health Benefits Judge Kozinski: OPM Can Go Screw Itself

  
  Queerty — Authority: 694
  Chief Judge of the Ninth Circuit Alex Kozinski, who just ruled to allow television cameras inside federal civil trials like Perry V. Schwarzenegger , is not. having. it. with the Office of Personnel Management, which just announced it would not try to force Blue Cross to grant same-sex health benefits to ...
  14 hours ago

• Why Its So Hard For Karen Golinski to Receive Shared Health Care Benefits: Power Struggles

  
  Queerty — Authority: 694
  The showdown between federal employee Karen Golinski and John Berrys Office of Personnel Management comes down to this: Was Judge Alex Kozinski — who demanded OPM enforce Golinkskis right to health care benefits for her lesbian partner — acting as a judge with the full force of the judiciary branch, or as ...
  1 day ago

• Lambda Legal’s Jennifer Pizer has questions about the OPM decision.

  
  Maybe it's just me... — Authority: 490
  After the OPM announced their decision on the Karen Golinski case, Pizer, a Lambda Lawyer, felt that their answers only led to more questions: “Is it possible for Judge Kozinski to be acting in some capacity other than as an Article III judge?” she questioned, “We think when he’s sitting in an employee ...
  2 days ago

• Weekly Political Roundup

  
  Mombian — Authority: 131
  U.S. National News The Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee marked up and passed the Domestic Partnership Benefits and Obligations Act , which would provide benefits to same-sex partners of federal employees. While the above churns through the system, the Office of Personnel Management ...
  5 days ago

• Nope, OPMs John Berry Wont Give This Lesbian Govt Employee Same-Sex Health Benefits

  
  Queerty — Authority: 694
  Karen Golinski, the staff attorney for the Ninth Circuit of Appeals, who has been refused shared spousal insurance benefits by the federal government, will not get them. Thats the final word from her boss: the federal government. CONTINUED » Permalink | Post a comment | Add to del.icio.us Tagged: Alex ...
  5 days ago

• The Karen Golinski Case: the drama, the result, the blame

  
  Maybe it's just me... — Authority: 490
  Some of you may have heard about the The Office of Personnel Management matter, involving a staff Karen Golinski trying to get benefits for her partner. Well at first, she was denied by the OPM & Obama Admin. Then Judge Kozinski, from the 9th circuit, stepped in and ordered that OPM stop interfering and asked the ...
  5 days ago

• U.S. appeals court weighs Mattel Bratz case

  
  Business Blog — Authority: 174
  PASADENA, California (Reuters) - A U.S. appeals court on Wednesday suspended a lower court order that transferred ownership of the Bratz doll franchise to Mattel Inc until it rules in the case, and ordered Mattel and rival toymaker MGA Entertainment into mediation. U.S. appeals court weighs Mattel Bratz case ...
  2 weeks ago

• Are You a Criminal? Maybe You Are and Don’t Know It

  
  Cato @ Liberty — Authority: 751
  By Tim Lynch Yesterday, Michael Dreeben, the attorney representing the U.S. government, tried to defend the controversial “honest services” statute from a constitutional challenge in front of the Supreme Court.  When Dreeben informed the Court that the feds have essentially criminalized any ethical lapse in ...
  2 weeks ago

• The Turducken Approach to Privacy Law / A Call to Clear the Tangled Thicket of Privacy Law

  
  Privacy Digest — Authority: 438
  The Turducken Approach to Privacy Law / A Call to Clear the Tangled Thicket of Privacy Law : Via NYTimes.com > Privacy . In June, the metaphor of the turducken made its first appearance in American jurisprudence. “It’s a bit like building a dinosaur from a jawbone or skull fragment,” a dissenting federal ...
  2 weeks ago

• Sidebar: The Turducken Approach to Privacy Law

  
  NYT > Theater — Authority: 901
  After an appeals court dissent’s colorful metaphor for a tangled area of law, the Supreme Court may intervene.
  2 weeks ago

• John Berrys No Good, Very Bad Answer About That Lesbians Health Benefits

  
  Queerty — Authority: 694
  Oh, hi John Berry! We know you are so, so tired of being the go-to gay in the Obama administration, but you just happen to be the most senior out gay staffer who also happens to oversee the livelihoods of more than a million federal employees. Some of whom are homosexual! So, like, could you please take a moment to ...
  2 weeks ago

• Daily Journal Reports on Dismissal of Cyrus Sanai’s Complaints Against Kozinski and Others. The L.A. Times . . . Somehow Misses the Story. Fancy That.

  
  Patterico's Pontifications — Authority: 667
  A reader passes along an article from the Daily Journal , which reports on the Ninth Circuit’s dismissal of certain ethics complaints by Cyrus Sanai against numerous judges, including Alex Kozinski. (Attentive readers will note that I first reported on this before Thanksgiving . Patterico: beating the Daily ...
  3 weeks ago

• Meanwhile, the Fierce Advocate:

  
  Scott's Take — Authority: 123
  Via the Independent Gay Forum : "Chief Judge Alex Kozinski of the Ninth Circuit of the U.S. Court of Appeals, a libertarian-leaning Regan-appointee, orders health benefits for a lesbian spouse of a federal employee, and the Obama White House, through its highest ranking openly gay appointee (John Berry, head of ...
  3 weeks ago

• Will Obama Fight to Keep the Fed From Giving Gays Spousal Benefits?

  
  Queerty — Authority: 694
  News that John Berry, Obamas highest ranking gay, oversaw yet another administration-approved denial of gay rights should no longer be a surprise. This is status quo. CONTINUED » Permalink | 3 comments | Add to del.icio.us Tagged: Alex Kozinski , Barack Obama , john berry , Karen Golinski , Office of ...
  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

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