Plaintiffs challenging Proposition 8 may have found treasure in Monday's Supreme Court ruling on a San Francisco law school's discrimination policy. Lawyers for same-sex marriage proponents told the judge in the Prop 8 trial Tuesday that the majority in the high court ruling acknowledged that gays are a protected class. Justice Anthony Kennedy, who joined Justice Ruth Ginsburg's opinion in the case, is the crucial fifth vote that same-sex marriage plaintiffs are counting on, should the challenge to Prop 8 make it to D.C.
June 30, 2010 at 12:00 AM
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Plaintiffs challenging Proposition 8 think they might have found treasure buried deep in Monday’s U.S. Supreme Court ruling on the discrimination policy at San Francisco’s Hastings College of the Law.
Lawyers for same-sex marriage proponents told the judge in the Prop 8 trial Tuesday that the five-justice majority in Christian Legal Society v. Martinez acknowledged that gays are a protected class.
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