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FILTER RESULTS ►Prop 8 from the Beginning: VIDEO
The American Foundation for Equal Rights has just put out this video chronicling the Proposition 8 case from its beginning. Watch, AFTER THE JUMP... The next possible day that the Supreme Court could rule on the marriage cases is this...
WATCH: Dustin Lance Black, Chad Griffin Fight For Equality in D.C.
Dustin Lance Black, Chad Griffin, Rob Reiner, and others are featured in a new video released by the American Foundation for Equal Rights (AFER). The footage offers interviews and a behind-the-scenes look at the heroic team who earlier this week descended upon Washington D.C. where the U.S. Supreme Court heard arguments for and against Proposition [...]
Video: AFER's Inside Look At Prop 8 SCOTUS Case
The American Foundation for Equal Rights has released a poignant behind-the-scenes video about the days before and after the Supreme Court's hearing on the Prop 8 case. Among those interviewed in this clip are of the several plaintiffs and their...
Clint Eastwood Pledges Support for Gay Marriage
He's one of the few big-time celebrities who is also a big-time Republican.
But Clint Eastwood has veered from the viewpoint of many Conservatives in one regard: the actor signed the American Foundation for Equal Rights’s “Friend ofShow More Summary
Clint Eastwood Endorses Same-Sex Marriage In California
Clint Eastwood has endorsed same-sex marriage in California by signing a brief opposing Proposition 8. The proposition bans same-sex marriage in California. The brief which was filed by the American Foundation for Equal Rights encourages Supreme Court Justices to reconsider California’s ban on same-sex marriage under Proposition 8. The brief cites freedom and equality as [...]Show More Summary
Dozens of SCOTUS Amicus Briefs Opposing Prop 8 Incoming from Lawmakers, Corporations, Organizations
The American Foundation for Equal Rights has provided us with a list of the expect briefs due today from various groups opposing Proposition 8 before the Supreme Court. Todiay is the filing deadline. Still no word on whether one wil...
Prop 8 Plaintiffs File Supreme Court Brief. So Do Republicans! Is President Obama Next?
BY ARI EZRA WALDMAN Last week, the American Foundation for Equal Rights (AFER), the organization running the federal challenge to Prop 8, submitted its brief to the U.S. Supreme Court in Hollingsworth v. Perry. The brief, written by Ted Olson...
AFER Files Prop 8 Brief
The good guys have begun filing their Supreme Court briefs. First out, appropriately, is the American Foundation for Equal Rights, who today filed their brief in the Proposition 8 case. Chris Geidner reports at Buzzfeed: Nearly fourShow More Summary
Queer Talk: BREAKING SCOTUS Will Hear DOMA and Prop 8 Cases
From American Foundation for Equal Rights: Today, the United States Supreme Court issued an order granting review in Hollingsworth v. Perry (formerly Perry v. Brown), the federal constitutional challenge to California’s Proposition 8. Show More Summary
Queer Talk: CNN’s Toobin Predicts SCOTUS Will Hear DOMA Challenge But Not Prop 8
Last week the American Foundation for Equal Rights reported that the Supreme Court will “discuss whether to hear AFER’s federal constitutional challenge to California’s Proposition 8 at its private Conference on Friday, November 30.” In a forum at JFK Presidential Library yesterday, CNN’s Jeff Toobin said he thinks SCOTUS will decline to hear the Prop [...]
Quick Guide To When Marriage Equality Expansions Takes Effect
The American Foundation for Equal Rights (AFER) has posted a guide for when the new expansions of marriage equality will take effect. Washington’s law will take effect December 6 (30 days after the election). Maine’s law could take effect as early as December 6 as well, but it depends on when the governor officially proclaimed [...]
PHOTO: American Foundation for Equal Rights Infographic On Prop 8 Case History
After the Supreme Court announced that it would consider whether to grant review in Hollingsworth v. Perry (formerly Perry v. Brown), the federal constitutional challenge to California’s Proposition 8, the American Foundationn for Equal Rights created a helpful and informative infographic explaining the journey of the Prop 8 case to date, as well as potential [...]
Supreme Court To Determine Fate Of Prop 8 And DOMA Cases
The Supreme Court will meet to discuss whether it will review American Foundation for Equal Rights (AFER)’s federal challenge to Proposition 8, along with several challenges to the Defense of Marriage Act, at a private conference on Tuesday, November 20. According to the AFER, the Court will either: Grant review of our Prop. 8 challenge, [...]
Queer Talk: BREAKING – Supreme Court Will Consider Review of Prop 8 Case
From a press release this morning by the American Foundation for Equal Rights : Today, the United States Supreme Court indicated that it will consider whether to grant review in Hollingsworth v. Perry (formerly Perry v. Brown), the federal constitutional challenge to California’s Proposition 8. The Perry case, along with several cases challenging the federal [...]
Queer Talk: Second Federal Appeals Court Ruling Against DOMA
Via American Foundation for Equal Rights: The Second Circuit Court of Appeals today ruled that the so-called Defense of Marriage Act is unconstitutional, saying that the law unfairly treats married gay and lesbian couples differently. This is the second time an appeals court struck down the 1996 law. A federal appeals court in Boston also [...]
Queer Talk: Challenge to Prop 8 Not on Supreme Court List
The American Foundation for Equal Rights issued an alert this morning regarding its case challenging California’s Proposition 8. Today, the U.S. Supreme Court released the first list of cases it will hear this Term and AFER’s challenge to Prop. 8 is not on this week’s list The Justices meet nearly every week to determine the [...]
Prop 8, DOMA Cases Don't Make Supreme Court List
The Supreme Court released its list today of cases they will take up this session and none of the DOMA cases nor the federal Prop 8 case is on the list. The American Foundation for Equal Rights writes: The Justices...
Pro-Equality Conservative Prop 8 Attorney Ted Olson is Coaching Paul Ryan for Debate Against Joe Biden
Ted Olson, one of the two star attorneys leading American Foundation for Equal Rights in its court battle against Proposition 8, is coaching GOP VP nominee Paul Ryan for his debates against Vice President Joe Biden, several news outlets are...
Christian Group Demands Supreme Court Hear Appeal Of Proposition 8 Overturn
Two weeks ago the American Foundation for Equal Rights (AFER) filed a brief asking that the Supreme Court decline to hear the appeal of the overturn of Proposition 8. Today a Christian group with a laughable name filed a brief in opposition to AFER's request. Show More Summary
Olson, Boies And Allies Ask SCOTUS To Ignore Prop 8 Appeal
Ted Olson and David Boies, the attorneys most recently famous for their work to fight prohibition on same-sex marriage in California, joined their colleagues at the American Foundation for Equal Rights today in calling on the Supreme Court to push...
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