At Least 60 Court Briefs Filed In Prop. 8 Lawsuit
The court battle over the Marriage Amendment in California gets briefs from all sides. Below you may view most yourself.
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Who is doing the smearing over the issue of Same Sex Marriage in Cali?
From Google...
Google joins amicus filed in opposition to Proposition 8
ADF Brief: Authority to amend Calif. constitution resides with the peopleGoogle has filed an amicus brief in several legal challenges to Proposition 8, which make gay marriage illegal in California.
The company argues that it has many gay, lesbian and bi-sexual employees and many come to work for the company because they can get married in California. If those marriages are annulled then the company says it would lose key talent and be placed at a competitive disadvantage.
ADF attorneys submit brief defending Proposition 8
Brief points out that authority to amend constitution in Calif. resides with the people
SAN FRANCISCO — Alliance Defense Fund attorneys submitted a friend-of-the-court brief on behalf of the Family Research Council Thursday in defense of California’s marriage amendment. The brief demonstrates that the authority to amend the constitution in California resides with the people and that this was legitimately done by the people in the passage of Proposition 8.
“In America, we respect the results of fair elections,” said ADF Senior Counsel Brian Raum. “The will of the people expressed in Proposition 8, which restored the definition of marriage to the California Constitution, should be respected. The constitution itself makes it clear that the people have this authority.”
“The lawsuits against the amendment should be seen for what they are: ongoing efforts by activists to redefine marriage, which is precisely what the voters of California have expressed they don’t want,” Raum said.
The California Supreme Court ruled on Nov. 19 that it would not temporarily suspend the application of Proposition 8 and granted a motion by defenders of Proposition 8, led by ADF-allied attorney Andy Pugno, to intervene in a lawsuit filed against the new marriage amendment (www.telladf.org/news/story.aspx?cid=4756).
Multiple lawsuits filed with the high court–including Strauss v. Horton, Tyler v. State of California, and City of San Francisco v. Horton–claim that Proposition 8 illegally revised the constitution instead of amending it to restore the definition of marriage used throughout the history of the state.
According to the FRC brief submitted by ADF attorneys, “The novel legal theories presented by Petitioners and the Attorney General threaten to undermine California’s basic form of government. They seek to erode the sovereignty of the people–the authors and ultimate arbiters of the Constitution–and transfer that authority to the judiciary.” The brief “asks this Court to exercise the judiciary’s greatest strength in a republic–the exercise of self-restraint.”
The full text of the brief is available at www.telladf.org/UserDocs/HortonBrief.pdf.
ADF attorneys were involved in defending Proposition 8 from attack prior to the election and also defended California’s Defense of Marriage Act, Proposition 22, before it was struck down by the California Supreme Court in May 2008."
From Family Research Council....
See document at http://downloads.frc.org/EF/EF09A16.pdf
From Protect Marriage and ACLU....
See previous post at Update on Prop 8 legal battle in California over Same Sex Marriage. There is also a link to ACLU filings in that blog
From Bar organizations and labor unions
Bar organizations and labor unions file in opposition to California’s marriage amendment
MSNBC reports: “A state ballot measure that changes the state Constitution to ban gay marriage violates the document’s guarantee of equal protection, 40 bar and legal organizations said Thursday in announcing they filed a brief with the state Supreme Court . . . ”
365Gay.com: “A coalition of more than 50 California labor organizations, including United Healthcare Workers and the California Labor Federation also filed its brief on Friday. In total, the labor organizations represent more than two million working men and women in California.”
Cal. Supreme Court: Prop 8 filings web page
Lambda Legal: Religious and Civil Rights Groups, Legislators, Bar Associations, Labor, Businesses, and Legal Scholars Urge Court to Overturn Prop 8"
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