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Litigation

Jan. 20, 2011

Perry v. Schwarzenegger

Civil Rights, U.S. District Court for the Northern District, San Francisco


When two gay couples took their fight against California's Proposition 8 before then-Chief Judge Vaughn R. Walker of the Northern District, their attorneys offered up a slew of witnesses in support of their argument that denying same-sex couples the right to marry violates the U.S. Constitution.


But one of their best witnesses was called to the stand by their opponents. David Blankenhorn, president of the Institute for American Values, was one of two witnesse...

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