Tag Archives: Tenth Circuit Court

From the Salt Lake Tribune: In rapid succession, the official Utah position on same-sex marriage has gone from mainstream conservative to merely retrograde to downright nasty. The arguments put forth Thursday by Utah’s hired legal eagles in the 10th Circuit Court of Appeals will soon be brushed aside, if not by that tribunal, then by the U.S. Supreme Court, and …

The full audio of today’s oral arguments in Utah’s appeal to the Tenth Circuit Court has been posted.  The full clip is just over one hour long. Dig in and post the bits that most interest you in the comments.

Via the Associated Press: A three-judge panel appeared sharply divided as they questioned attorneys Thursday at a hearing over whether to uphold a lower court’s ruling that struck down Utah’s ban on gay marriage. One of the judges, Carlos F. Lucero, compared the state’s argument that the ban should to the U.S. Supreme Court’s infamous Dred Scott decision that denied …

Freedom To Marry head Evan Wolfson writes: “Today marked a new chapter in the campaign to win the freedom to marry. We now begin a wave of federal appellate arguments and rulings that set the stage for national resolution by the Supreme Court. Once again it became clear in the light of a courtroom that there is no good reason …

LGBT journalists at the Tenth Circuit Court Of Appeals in Denver will be reporting on Twitter via the hashtag #10thCircuit as oral arguments are presented today. It doesn’t appear that live reporting from inside the courtroom will be allowed so updates will likely come during breaks in the proceedings. Local Fox reporter Ben Winslow just tweeted the above photo of …

The AP reports on last night’s rally.

On the eve of oral arguments before the Tenth Circuit Court, Utah Attorney General Sean Reyes filed a last minute brief that totally dismisses the state’s previous reliance on the work of discredited researcher Mark Regnerus. Utah files this supplemental letter in response to recent press reports and analysis of the study by Professor Mark Regnerus, which the State cited …

Tomorrow a three-judge panel of the Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals will hear opening arguments in Kitchen V Herbert. The Human Rights Campaign has posted a short recap on the cases presently before the Tenth.

Alliance Defending Freedom yesterday a filed a brief in defense of Oklahoma’s gay marriage ban on behalf of Tulsa County Clerk Sally Smith.  The ban was overturned by a federal court in January and that ruling was immediately stayed pending an appeal, which was filed two days later by the ADF. The 10th Circuit Court of Appeals should uphold Oklahoma’s …

Shortly before the midnight deadline on Friday, the state of Utah filed an appeal brief with the Tenth Circuit Court which calls same-sex marriage a “judicial wrecking ball.” To allow the “difficult policy choice” about marriage rights to be made by “judicial fiat” would not be akin to the “narrow” decision that ended bans on interracial marriage, but instead would …

Via Chris Geidner at Buzzfeed: Several prominent Western-state conservatives and Republicans — led by former Sen. Alan Simpson — urged the 10th Circuit Court of Appeals Tuesday to strike down bans on same-sex couples’ marriages in Utah and Oklahoma. Modeled after the briefing at the Supreme Court last year, the brief filed Tuesday aims to convince the court that the …

Via press release: The OutServe-Servicemembers Legal Defense Network (OutServe-SLDN) and the American Military Partner Association (AMPA) today jointly filed a friend of the court brief [Amicus Brief] with the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit in the cases of Kitchen v. Herbert, decided by a federal district court in Utah, and Bishop v. Smith, decided by a federal …

Via press release from the National Center for Lesbian Rights: Late Tuesday, attorneys for three couples challenging Utah’s ban on marriage for same-sex couples filed a brief in the United States Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit, urging the court to uphold a lower court’s December 2013 decision finding the ban unconstitutional. On December 20, 2013, U.S. District Court …

The Liberty Counsel has filed two amicus briefs with the Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals in support of  Oklahoma and Utah’s defense of their bans on same-sex marriage. Their Oklahoma brief was filed on the behalf of NARTH, the crackpot “ex-gay” group whose co-founder was busted in the Miami airport with a young male prostitute as they returned from a …

Eleven states have filed a brief with the Tenth Circuit Court in support of Utah’s defense of its ban on same-sex marriage. The states are Alabama, Alaska, Arizona, Colorado, Indiana, Idaho, Montana, Nebraska, Oklahoma and South Carolina. Notably there were 16 states that signed on to the pro-Defense of Marriage Act and pro-Prop 8 briefs before the Supreme Court. Those …

Discredited researcher Mark Regnerus today filed a brief with the Tenth Circuit Court in support of Utah’s defense of its ban on same-sex marriage. Another familiar name on the Utah brief is Professor Douglas Allen, of Canada’s Simon Fraser University. Allen sits on the board of directors of NOM’s former hate-satellite, the Ruth Institute. Allen is a supporter of Regnerus …

Late last night the outside counsel hired to defend the state of Utah in its same-sex marriage case filed its first brief, which relies heavily on the widely-debunked study by discredited Texas researcher Mark Regnerus. Via the Salt Lake Tribune: Utah has chosen a definition of marriage that is “principally a child-centered institution, one focused first and foremost on the …

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