Whether you call it a triumph for ProtectMarriage.com, a triumph for the ACLU, or a triumph for free speech, the Ninth U.S. Circuit of Appeals’s unanimous decision to let Prop 8 supporters keep their internal memos private is a bitchslap to Perry v. Schwarzenegger‘s Judge Vaughn Walker, who initially demanded ProtectMarriage’s Charles Cooper turn everything over to the competition. This means Perry‘s plaintiffs, who are looking to have Prop 8 overturned on constitutional grounds, won’t have a sneak peek inside their opponents’ strategy — making it more difficult to prove they pushed for Prop 8’s passage as a means of discrimination.
Prop 8’s Supporters Get to Keep Their Bigot Documents Hidden
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FakeName
And the rants from lunatics who don’t understand the constitutional issue and will call the appellate court homophobes begins in 3…2…1…
Keith Kimmel
Hate to say it, but the appellate court is right this time. Attorney-client privilage is sacred and it should not be violated for this.
Keith Kimmel
Heh, the more I think about it, I cant remember the last time I agreed with the 9th circuit on any of thier cases that have come to my attention.
YellowRanger
Oh well. But hey, if hackers can bust out those “climategate” e-mails with such ease, there has to be someone out there who could get to these documents with minimal difficulty, laws be damned. I’m sure all of this information isn’t kept solely on paper…
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No. 4 · YellowRanger wrote, “Oh well. But hey, if hackers can bust out those ‘climategate’ e-mails with such ease, there has to be someone out there who could get to these documents with minimal difficulty, laws be damned. I’m sure all of this information isn’t kept solely on paper…”
http://rt.com/Top_News/2009-12-07/climate-files-russian-spies.html?fullstory claims that the FSB (the Russian Security Service) was responsible, although that may be a conspiracy theory, as the main evidence seems to be that the emails were posted on a server located in Russia.
If you want to try to break in to their systems to steal Prop-8 related emails, I might suggest first moving to a country with which the U.S. does not have an extradition treaty.
Michael Letterman
Prop 8 passed for a very simple reason, it is the will of the people, the majority of the people.
Regan Du
The Supreme Court did the same thing to the judge, barring the cameras. The judge knows better.
For all of you dimwits and numbskulls, if the documents for the yes on 8 side are to be turned over, you had better believe the documents for the no side will have to be turned over too.
Now how would you all like them apples?
The law door swings both ways people.