Thursday, May 28, 2009

Olson, Boies Unite to Fight Calif. Ban on Marriage for Gays in Federal Court

Law.com
May 28, 2009
Gay-rights lawyers on Wednesday welcomed longtime conservative lawyer Theodore Olson into the fight for the freedom to marry, but warned him and liberal colleague David Boies that they could hurt the cause more than help it by launching an attack on California's Proposition 8 in the federal courts. "There is no end run around the nitty-gritty work of social change," Evan Wolfson, executive director of the New York-based Freedom to Marry, said in a telephone call. "If it was just about hiring a good lawyer and filing a good brief, we'd have won decades ago." [link]

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