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Now that the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit has declined to conduct an en banc review of its earlier ruling invalidating California’s Prop. 8 — technically Perry v. Brown — the presumed next step is for the U.S. Supreme Court to take up the case.  I am not so sure that will …

Jessica and Virginia got married in 2008 in California during the brief period of time that same sex marriage licenses were being issued.  Two years later Jessica filed for divorce in Maryland.  The Maryland trial court refused to grant the divorce explaining in its written order that the marriage was “not valid” and “contrary to …

Georgetown Law Professor Robin West has published A Marriage is a Marriage is a Marriage: The Limits of Perry v. Brown.  Here’s the abstract: The Ninth Circuit’s decision in Perry v. Brown, authored by Judge Reinhardt, has been widely lauded by marriage equality proponents for its creative minimalism. In keeping with commentators’ expectations, the court …

California has a full-time Legislature. Very little gets done by the Legislature so I am not sure why it needs to run full time, but it does. One thing that a full time Legislature does do is draft new laws, and a lot of them. A California politician’s apparent claim to fame is the ability …