Word: courtroom
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...legal case that gay-rights activists feared to see is about to get under way in a federal courtroom in San Francisco. For the next several weeks, plaintiffs will argue that the U.S. Constitution forbids states from restricting marriage to one man and one woman. The case has brought together some of the most powerful appellate attorneys in America but has divided gay-rights lawyers and legal scholars who fear that even if successful, the case could set the issue on a collision course with a less-than-sympathetic U.S. Supreme Court...
...also a political and economic contract of the highest order. Nobody gets married expecting that it will ever end. But sometimes it does. It was really important to both of us that we wouldn't be leaving these decisions for unsentimental strangers to make for us in a courtroom. (See the top 10 nonfiction books...