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... transgender woman ever named "Woman of the Year" by the California State Assembly, and in 2007 she was elected president of the San Francisco Police ... and Phyllis Lyon became the first same-sex couple to be legally married in California, and in the entire United States, in 2004, when San Francisco ... Eventually all of these marriages where voided by the California Supreme Court ...
... Lower courts had held that provisions disallowing gang members to associate with one another violated their first amendment right to free assembly ... However, the Supreme Court of California upheld the constitutionality of the provision against association on the grounds that it was not constitutionally vague - it only applied to named gang members and ... injunction against the Colonia Chiques gang in Oxnard, California covers 6.6 miles, 24% of the city ...
... The 1986 California Supreme Court retention election started a major trend turning such elections into "an ideological battleground over judicial philosophies ... Even before the election, California Supreme Court Justice Otto Kaus remarked "You cannot forget the fact that you have a crocodile in your bathtub", referring to the act of making a judicial ... professor from the University of Southern California, agreed with the ousted Justice Grodin, saying "the legacy of 1986 could be that justices facing retention elections will decide cases with an eye ...
... Constitutional Amendment." The ballot summary read that the measure "changes the California Constitution to eliminate the right of same-sex couples to marry in California." Proponents of the measure objected to ... Bowen was dismissed August 7, 2008, by California Superior Court Judge Timothy M ... that the change was valid because the measure did, in fact, eliminate a right upheld by the California Supreme Court ...
... Proposition 8 was a California ballot proposition and a state constitutional amendment passed in the November 2008 state elections ... The measure added a new provision, Section 7.5 of the Declaration of Rights, to the California Constitution, which provides that "only marriage between a man and a woman is valid or recognized ... which had passed in 2000 and, as an ordinary statute, had been invalidated by the State Supreme Court in 2008 ...
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