Tuesday, February 7, 2012
Proposition 8 law ruled unlawful by appeals court - The Washington Post
Feb. 7 (Bloomberg) -- California’s voter-backed Proposition 8 law declaring marriage to be only between a man and a woman was ruled unconstitutional by a federal appeals court.
The San Francisco-based court, ruling 2-1, today upheld the 2010 decision of a federal court judge who said the measure violated constitutional equal protection rights of same-sex couples. That ruling came in the first federal trial over whether it’s legal to ban marriage by people of the same sex.
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