Tag Archives: Virginia
Speed Read: ENDA ‘falls short’
The Tenth Circuit yesterday delayed for at least a week a federal judge's order that Utah grant state benefits to same-sex couples who married before the U.S. Supreme Court stayed another judge's ruling striking the state ban on same-sex couples
Speed Read: Preserving history
The number of LGBT-related hate attacks stayed relatively consistent between 2012 and 2013, according to a report released yesterday. The Secretary of the Interior will announce a new campaign today to identify places and events in the LGBT civil rights
Fourth Circuit clash over Virginia ban: Whose children must the state protect with marriage laws?
The Fourth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals hearing Tuesday was, as Judge Paul Niemeyer characterized it, just one step along the way to an eventual U.S. Supreme Court ruling on whether states, like Virginia, can ban same-sex couples from marrying.
Speed Read: Slugfest in Fourth Circuit
The Fourth Circuit vote on Virginia's ban of same-sex marriage will almost certainly be 2 to 1, given Tuesday's combative oral argument. A federal judge in Idaho struck down that state's ban on Tuesday and ordered the state to start
Speed Read: ‘THE big moment’?
A three-judge panel of the Fourth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals will this morning take up a challenge to Virginia's ban on same-sex couples marrying. Clay Aiken's chief rival for the Democratic nomination in the race for the U.S. House
Two edges of the same sword: Lessons from the Becker Book, Part 2
New York Times reporter Jo Becker's book paints an angry confrontation in May 2009 between the board of the American Foundation for Equal Rights and and four key LGBT civil rights legal activists when AFER unveiled its plans for a
Speed Read: NOM delay denied
A federal judge in Oregon denied the National Organization for Marriage's motion to delay hearing two lawsuits against the state's marriage ban. There's been a major pile-on of criticism for a new book out on the Proposition 8 litigation. And
Utah marriage cases cued up before the Tenth Circuit today, and next week
The Tenth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals today will become the second federal appeals court to tackle the question of whether statewide laws banning same-sex couples from marrying violate the U.S. Constitution. A three-judge panel will scrutinize the decision last
Speed Read: Mississippi bias
The Mississippi legislature passed a religious bias bill Tuesday which many think will be used to justify discrimination against gays and blacks. Gay federal court nominee has smooth sailing in confirmation hearing. Federal judge cancels trial for one of the
