Legal News

California's Same-Sex Marriage Ban Rejected by State Supreme Court
The California Supreme Court today ruled that the state's failure to designate the official relationship of same-sex couples as marriage violates the California Constitution, effectively rejecting the state's ban on same-sex marriage...

Cal Supreme Court: State law on marriage unconstitutional
By a 4-3 vote the California Supreme Court has struck down that state statute that limits marriage to opposite sex couples. The combined opinions run about 200 pages, so it will take a while to digest...

California Supreme Court Overturns Gay Marriage Ban
IN RE: MARRIAGE CASES(Calif. Supreme Court, May 15, 2008) - "California's highest court rules that the state's treatment of same-sex couples differently by failing to designate a gay or lesbian couple's official union a 'marriage' instead of a 'domestic partnership' violates the California Constitution...

Lazarus: The California Supreme Courts Decision Equalizing Marriage for Gay and Straight Couples: Did the Court Overstep
Edward Lazarus argues on Findlaw that the Cal. Supreme Court did not engage in judicial activism when it redefined marriage, because the Cal. Constitution is different.  He writes: To begin, the California Constitution contains an affirmative grant of personal rights that has no analogue in the U...

California Supreme Court hears gay marriage case:
Today the California Supreme Court heard oral argument in In re Marriage Cases, involving a challenge under the state constitution to the state's exclusion of same-sex couples from marriage...

California Governor Schwarzenegger Vetoes Gay Marriage Bill
Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger vetoed a gay marriage bill Friday, saying voters and the state Supreme Court, not lawmakers, should decide the issue. According to the New York Times, "The Republican governor turned down a measure by Assemblyman Mark Leno that would have defined marriage as a union between two people, not just a man and a woman...

Selection of State Supreme Court Judges
How State Court Judges are Selected

California Supreme Court Proposition 8 Decision
Court Rejects Challenges to Proposition 8, but Finds Marriages Valid

Discouraging Union Organizers
Strict work place rules

Gay Marriage Laws
Where same sex couples can marry

Law Enforcement and Criminal Justice Career Choices
Descriptions of law enforcement occupations

Hawaii Divorce Laws
How to end a marriage in paradise

Texas, USA
alleging the Medical Malpractice and Tort Reform Act of 2003 violates several provisions of the Constitution.

State Farm Undercompensation
alleging compensation for totaled vehicles is less than California law requires.

VA Sets New Benefit Rules for Agent Orange-Related Ilnesses
Agent Orange-Related Ilnesses VA Sets New Benefit Rules

California State University
Multi-Million Dollar Settlement Reached in Sex Discrimination Case

Family Law
involving divorce, child custody, spousal support, common law, adoption and same sex marriage.

Indianapolis
alleging the city's police are overly aggressive against the homeless in violation of the protection of free speech and unreasonable searches guaranteed in the US Constitution.