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...landmark constitutional convention brought out many demonstrators, who, like Houston, were seeking to overturn SJC’s decision permitting gay marriage...
...motion to overturn Ficom’s exemption narrowly failed by a vote of 20-19. During the vote, after the council decided that no members could abstain from the decision, three council members left the room in protest...
...under the protective umbrella of the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA), the 1996 federal law that says no state is obliged to recognize same-sex marriages performed by another state. Some conservatives fear that the Supreme Court--or at least some future, more liberal configuration of the court--might overturn that law, especially in light of the challenges that are certain to arise once gays who have wed legally in Massachusetts seek to have other states recognize their marriages...
...Rings: The Return of the King a dead cert for Best Picture? Already the sixth all-time worldwide top-grossing film, the finale to Peter Jackson's hobbit-forming trilogy has also received plenty of critics' laurels. But to grab the big statuette, LOTR: ROTK will need to overturn a serious Academy prejudice: no flat-out fantasy film has ever nabbed the top Oscar...
...lawyer for FAIR and its fellow litigants, E. Joshua Rosenkranz of the New York law firm Heller, Ehrman, White and McAuliffe, predicted that the Philadelphia-based Third Circuit Court of Appeals, which has a “history of respectful application of the First Amendment,” would overturn the lower court’s ruling...