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: Legal Pad | LAAttorneys and civil rights groups unhappy with one another in Prop 8 challenge
By Richard Binder
Gay rights groups' attempt to intervene in a federal challenge of California's Proposition 8 has created a rift with the high-powered attorneys heading the case, turning erstwhile allies into head-butting competitors.
Civil rights groups worry that Theodore Olson, David Boies and their team are underestimating the importance of U.S. District Chief Judge Vaughn Walker's insistence on a fully developed factual record. There is also some concern, mostly propagated in blogs, that Olson, a Republican who represented George W. Bush during Bush v. Gore, is somehow working secretly to undermine same-sex marriage. But the plaintiffs in the case want the civil rights groups out, claiming it's their actions that are really undermining the challenge.
Full post as published by Legal Pad | LA on July 22, 2009 (boomark / email).
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