Prop 8 Appeal

Prop 8 Backers Challenge Decision

AP | LISA LEFF | Posted 04.22.2012

SAN FRANCISCO — The backers of California's same-sex marriage ban petitioned a federal appeals court Tuesday to review a split decision by three...

City Of San Francisco Asks Court For Advance Notice Of Prop 8 Decision

Aaron Sankin | Posted 12.15.2011

Cities like to know ahead of time when a major protest is going to occur--that's not revolutionary. However, what is quite out of the ordinary is when...

Prop 8 Heading Back To Court

Aaron Sankin | Posted 10.01.2011

The last time a California court heard arguments on the validity of Proposition 8, the controversial measure banning gay marriage that state voters pa...

Prop 8 Sponsors: Judge's Homosexuality Is Grounds For Appeal

AP | By LISA LEFF | Posted 06.25.2011

SAN FRANCISCO -- The sponsors of California's same-sex marriage ban say the recent disclosure by the federal judge who struck down Proposition 8 that ...

California Supreme Court Agrees To Rule On Gay Marriage Ban Defense

AP | LISA LEFF | Posted 05.25.2011

SAN FRANCISCO — California's highest court decided Wednesday to wade back into the legal morass surrounding the state's voter-approved gay marri...

Prop 8 Case Goes Back To Court Today, Hearing To Be Televised

AP | PAUL ELIAS and LISA LEFF | Posted 05.25.2011

SAN FRANCISCO — The legal fight over California's gay marriage ban went before a federal appeals court Monday in a hearing that reached a nation...

Same-Sex Marriage Case Will Be Broadcast On C-Span

AP | Posted 05.25.2011

SAN FRANCISCO — An upcoming appeals court hearing on the constitutionality of California's same-sex marriage ban will be televised. The 9th U.S. ...

Lawyers Urge Court To Rely On Prop 8 Trial Facts

AP | LISA LEFF | Posted 05.25.2011

SAN FRANCISCO — A federal appeals court should rely on the same evidence a trial judge considered when he overturned California's same-sex marri...

Schwarzenegger Rejects Conservative Legal Efforts To Force Prop 8 Appeal

AP | LISA LEFF | Posted 05.25.2011

SAN FRANCISCO — California's highest court on Wednesday refused to order Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger and the state's attorney general to appeal a...

Prop 8 Judge: I Doubt My Ruling Can Be Appealed

AP | PAUL ELIAS and LISA LEFF | Posted 05.25.2011

SAN FRANCISCO — Attorney General Jerry Brown urged a federal appeals court Friday to waste no time in allowing gay marriages to resume in Califo...

Prop 8 Appeal Could Delay Gay Weddings In California

AP | PAUL ELIAS | Posted 05.25.2011

SAN FRANCISCO — The judge who overturned California's gay marriage ban was unrelenting in his repudiation of the measure, saying such laws are m...