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U.S. News // 1 decade ago

Prop 8 proponents go back to court to try to stop same-sex marriages

Opponents of same-sex marriage in California went back to the U.S. Supreme Court Saturday to try to stop an appellate ruling opening the way for gays to marry.

U.S. News // 1 decade ago

Court lifts stay, same-sex marriages to resume in California

The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals issued an order Friday clearing the way for counties to issue same-sex marriage licenses in California.

U.S. News // 1 decade ago

Proposition 8 ruled unconstitutional by Court of Appeals

California's voter-approved ban on same-sex marriages was declared unconstitutional Tuesday by a federal appeals court in San Francisco.

U.S. News // 1 decade ago

Judges question Prop. 8 appeal

Sponsors of California's ban on same-sex marriage say the judge who ruled the measure unconstitutional should have been disqualified because he is homosexual.

U.S. News // 1 decade ago

Gay Calif. judge's Prop 8 ruling upheld

A federal judge in San Francisco upheld a controversial ruling by a fellow judge overturning California's ban on same-sex marriages.

U.S. News // 1 decade ago

Filing: Void gay judge's Prop. 8 ruling

The judge who voided California's ban on same-sex marriage should have recused himself because he is gay and could benefit from his ruling, ban supporters said.

U.S. News // 1 decade ago

U.S. judge awards Islamic charity damages

A federal judge ordered the U.S. government to pay $40,800 in damages and $2.5 million in legal fees for illegally wiretapping an Islamic organization.

U.S. News // 1 decade ago

Judge in gay marriage case leaving bench

U.S. District Judge Vaughn Walker, who overturned California's ban on same-sex marriage, plans to leave after more than two decades on the bench, officials say.

U.S. News // 1 decade ago

Calif. same-sex marriage remains on hold

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.

U.S. News // 1 decade ago

Calif. won't appeal Prop 8 ruling

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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Judge refuses to dismiss wiretapping suit Jul 20, 2006

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Final arguments in Calif. same-sex hearing Jun 16, 2010

Vaughn R. Walker (born 1944) served as a district judge of the United States District Court for the Northern District of California from 1989 to 2011.

Walker was born in Watseka, Illinois, in 1944. He graduated from the University of Michigan (1966) and Stanford Law School (1970).

After clerking for United States District Court for the Central District of California Judge Robert J. Kelleher (1971–72), he practiced in San Francisco at Pillsbury, Madison & Sutro.

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