July 17, 2009
California Dismissed as Defendant in Smelt-Hammer Suit
UPDATE: I screwed up. The following refers to Smelt v. United States, not Perry, Stein, Katami, and Zarrillo v. Schwarzenegger, et al. I got the cases mixed up. Mea culpa. (But am I ever relieved it’s only Smelt and not Perry!)
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No links, no excerpts, because right now the only MSM outlet with the story is AP (and you know our policy on AP).
The upshot is that, at CA AG Jerry Brown’s request, U.S. District Judge David Carter removed California as a defendant in the federal lawsuit aiming to overturn DOMA — because the couple filing suit were married in California pre-Prop 8.
Of course, the federal government is still very much on the hook.
Interesting. And I haven’t the first clue if this is A Good Thing or a Bad Thing. But there it is.
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Filed Under: California, Civil Rights, Jerry Brown, Marriage, Proposition 8
