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Prince has dropped the million-dollar lawsuits he filed against 22 fans for posting self-made concert clips to their Facebook pages and personal blogs. Prince had only filed the original lawsuit less than 2 weeks ago … going after 22 anonymous bloggers (for $1 mil-a-piece) who posted concert footage on Facebook and other websites without Prince’s permission. But after news of …

Last week Virginia Attorney General Mark Herring announced that he would not defend his state against marriage equality lawsuits and would join the suit filed by AFER. That prompted AFER to call for an immediate summary judgement. But the judge today scheduled opening arguments for Thursday. Here’s her order, via Buzzfeed: NOTE — the Court sets the following Order of …

Prince has filed million-dollar lawsuits against 22 fans who posted self-made concert videos to their Facebook pages or personal blogs. According to the suits, these fans provided links to download their clips. The “Purple Rain” singer filed a copyright lawsuit on 16 January in the Northern District of California, targeting 22 individuals he believes have committed “massive infringement and bootlegging” …

Via press release from AFER: The American Foundation for Equal Rights (AFER), the sole sponsor of Bostic v. Rainey, the federal constitutional challenge to Virginia’s discriminatory Marriage Amendment, issued the following statement regarding U.S. District Court Judge Arenda L. Wright Allen’s order seeking Status Reports from all parties in the case regarding whether oral argument on the issues presented is …

Democratic Nevada Attorney General Catherine Masto has filed a brief to the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals in which she compares same-sex marriage to bigamy and incest. Chris Johnson writes at the Washington Blade: Evan Wolfson, president of Freedom to Marry, took Masto to task for making an implicit comparison between same-sex marriage and bigamy or incest while saying she …

Virginia Attorney General Mark Herring, who won election in November by a 0.04% margin, will join Prop 8 victors Ted Olson and David Boies in their bid to strike down his state’s ban on gay marriage. The action will mark a stunning reversal in the state’s legal position on same-sex marriage and is a result of November elections in which …

The plaintiffs had filed a motion requesting the denial of the extension. (Tipped by JMG reader Baltimatt)

As promised last week, today the ACLU sued the state of Utah to force the recognition of the more than 1200 same-sex marriages that took place before the Supreme Court issued its stay. The plaintiffs are profiled here. Read the full filing here. (Via Equality Case Files)

Via the Salt Lake Tribune: The ACLU of Utah is set Tuesday to announce a lawsuit against the state over the decision not to recognize marriages of same-sex couples performed before a stay was issued in the Amendment 3 case. The civil liberties organization started looking for plaintiffs on Jan. 8, the same day Gov. Gary Herbert’s office issued a …

American Atheists have filed a federal lawsuit which demands the removal of a 2000-lb monument to the Ten Commandments which was placed on the grounds of the Oklahoma statehouse in 2012. “This action challenges the constitutionality, under federal law, of the state of Oklahoma’s placement of a massive monument displaying an abridgement of a portion of religious text originating from …

Via Lone Star Q: Following a hearing in Austin, a federal judge today rejected a motion from [Texas Attorney General Greg] Abbott’s office to consolidate three separate lawsuits brought by same-sex couples who allege the marriage bans violate the U.S. Constitution. The decision from U.S. District Judge Sam Sparks means the cases will proceed separately toward trial in Austin and …

Late last month Lambda Legal filed suit against the city of Houston and Mayor Annise Parker in order to force the reinstatement of the same-sex partner benefits ordered by Parker.  Some folks are apparently confused by that action so yesterday Lambda posted an explanation. Some have asked why we would sue the Mayor and the City, when they have taken …

Via press release from AFER: On Thursday, January 30, 2014, the first hearing in the Virginia marriage equality case of Bostic v. Rainey will be held at the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia before Judge Arenda L. Wright Allen. The Bostic Plaintiffs’ lawsuit – first filed in July 2013 in Norfolk – argues that the Virginia …

Lone Star Q reports: A U.S. district judge in Austin will hold the first-ever hearing Thursday, Jan. 9 on federal lawsuits filed by same-sex couples challenging Texas’ marriage bans as unconstitutional. The three Texas lawsuits are part of a wave that have been filed across the country in the wake of the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision striking down part of …

Via Equality On Trial: Noted LGBT legal organization National Center for Lesbian Rights (NCLR) will be joining as co-counsel for the plaintiffs in Kitchen v. Herbert, the challenge to Utah’s same-sex marriage ban. A text entry in the docket for the Tenth Circuit appeal reported the appearance of NCLR attorneys Shannon Minter and Kate Kendell: “Notice of appearance filed by …

Yesterday a West Virginia judge indicated that he is not inclined to dismiss a marriage equality lawsuit brought by three gay couples against county clerks. However the judge may rule that the plaintiffs lack standing for the portion of the suit that argues for the recognition of marriages from other states. The lawsuit, filed Oct. 1, argues county clerks in …

Four Arizona gay couples yesterday filed a class action suit against the state’s ban on same-sex marriage. The suit, which names Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer, Attorney General Tom Horne and County Clerk Michael Jeanes as defendants, was filed by attorneys Shawn and Ellen Aiken. It claimed that a voter-approved ban on gay marriage is unconstitutional. “The plaintiffs are asking that …

On Friday, the good guys filed a SCOTUS brief opposing Utah Gov. Gary Herbert’s demand for a stay on gay marriages while the Tenth Circuit Court considers their appeal. Today the state fired back with a reply brief. As you’ll recall, the plaintiffs’ brief denounced the state’s citation of the Regnerus study and noted that Regnerus was denounced by the …

In what some see as Mayor Bloomberg’s final stab at the tobacco industry, New York City today filed a massive lawsuit against Fedex for shipping cigarettes to private homes. Monday’s lawsuit was filed in the U.S. District Court in Manhattan and seeks $52 million of civil fines and unpaid taxes from FedEx, which is based in Memphis, Tennessee. According to …

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