NYT/AP: California Lets Domestic Partners Law Stand

[DeepModem Mom]

California Lets Domestic Partners Law Stand
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Published: June 29, 2005
Filed at 6:37 p.m. ET


SAN FRANCISCO (AP) -- Handing gays an important legal victory, the California Supreme Court on Wednesday let stand a new law granting registered domestic partners many of the same rights and protections available to married couples.

Without comment, the justices unanimously declined to review lower-court rulings that said the law does not conflict with a voter-approved measure against gay marriage.

Justice Janice Rogers Brown, who leaves Thursday to join the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia, did not vote.

The domestic partner law, signed in 2003 by then-Gov. Gray Davis, represents the nation's most comprehensive recognition of gay domestic rights, short of the legalization of gay marriage in Massachusetts and civil unions in Vermont and Connecticut....

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The Campaign for California Families, along with state Sen. Pete Knight, challenged the law, saying it undermines Proposition 22 -- the 2000 initiative that defined marriage as between a man and a woman. Knight, a Republican who died after the lawsuit was filed, was the author of that measure, which passed with 61 percent of the vote....


http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/national/AP-California-Domestic-Partners.html

[Barkley]

1. I'm glad I voted for Gray Davis - eom.

[Charlie Brown]

2. Cal. Supreme Court rejects challenge to domestic partner law

http://www.sovo.com/thelatest/thelatest.cfm?blog_id=1375