Demonstrators celebrate as a Federal Judge overturns California's gay-marriage ban in San Francisco
Gay-marriage supporters rally in the city's Castro District to celebrate a federal judge's ruling overturning California's gay-marriage ban in San Francisco on August 4, 2010. Chief U.S. District Judge Vaughn Walker overturned California's Proposition 8 in a lawsuit filed by two gay couples who claimed the voter-approved ban violated their civil rights. UPI/Terry Schmitt
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California's Proposition 8, which banned same-sex marriages, was ruled unconstitutional by the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals on Feb. 7, 2012.
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SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 16 (UPI) -- A three-judge panel of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals Monday kept same-sex marriage on hold in California at least until early December.
WASHINGTON, Aug. 15 (UPI) -- Now that a federal judge has blocked of California's voter-enacted ban on same sex marriages, his injunction is expected to be favorably viewed by the federal appeals court, where the case is headed now.
SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 12 (UPI) -- California will not appeal a U.S. judge's decision to lift a stay on his injunction blocking the state's voter-enacted ban on same-sex marriage, officials said.
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SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 11 (UPI) -- The American Bar Association's House of Delegates has voted overwhelmingly to allow same-sex couples to marry in the United States.
SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 10 (UPI) -- Imperial County, Calif., Tuesday appealed the U.S. District Court ruling overturning Proposition 8, the state referendum banning same-sex marriage.
WASHINGTON, Aug. 8 (UPI) -- Ted Olson, a lawyer for opponents of California's same-sex marriage ban, said he's "hopeful and reasonably confident" they would prevail in the Supreme Court.
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SACRAMENTO, Aug. 7 (UPI) -- California's governor says gay marriages should be allowed to resume in the state immediately during the appeal process of a recent ruling overturning Prop. 8.
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