SF News According To Justice Thomas, SCOTUS Just Admitted They're Ruling In Favor Of Federal Same-Sex Marriage We're still likely months away from a final ruling from the Supreme Court on same-sex marriage nationwide only two short years after the landmark decision striking down the Defense of Marriage Act in
SF News 26 States Voice Their Support For A Lawsuit Against San Francisco Gun Law [UPDATED] Editor's note: the post originally incorrectly stated that the 26 states filed a lawsuit against the city of San Francisco. They filed an amicus brief in support of a lawsuit against the city
SF News Supreme Court Takes Case Of SFPD Shooting Of Mentally Disabled Woman The U.S. Supreme Court agreed yesterday to hear San Francisco vs. Sheehan, 13-1412, a case that could set precedents for police treatment of the disabled and mentally disabled. According to the AP,
SF News Sixth Circuit Court Of Appeals Upholds Same-Sex Marriage Bans, Setting Stage For Another SCOTUS Decision Bucking the trend of every other federal appeals court in the country thus far, the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals has issued a much-anticipated decision upholding gay marriage bans in the four states
SF News Ninth Circuit Court Strikes Down Gay Marriage Bans In Idaho and Nevada As predicted yesterday following the Supreme Court's decision not to hear any of the same-sex marriage challenges before them, two more states have seen their same-sex marriage bans fall at the hands of
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Drakes Bay Oyster Company May Finally Be Dunzo After Supreme Court Denies Case After a very long and protracted fight that attracted support by everyone from Alice Waters to the Koch Brothers, Drakes Bay Oyster Co. up in Point Reyes may be facing imminent closure after
SF News Oakland Pot Advocates Take Case to Supreme Court Americans for Safe Access (ASA), the medical marijuana advocacy group based in Oakland, has filed an appeal with the Supreme Court to get pot reclassified as a non-dangerous drug. The group previously brought
SF News State Supreme Court Says Gay Marriages Can Proceed The California State Supreme Court unanimously ruled today that same-sex marriages can continue despite an emergency request from Prop 8 supporters to stop them. "Backers of Proposition 8 had turned to the state's
SF News Photos: Scenes From San Francisco As Prop 8 Falls Wednesday morning at City Hall, a crowd of same sex marriage supporters, partners, parents, families and San Francisco dignitaries gathered to mark the Supreme Court's decision to declare DOMA unconstitutional and the return
SF News Prop 8 And DOMA Decisions To Come Down Wednesday; Castro, City Hall Events Planned We thought it might be Thursday, but SCOTUS is in fact planning to close up shop a day early for their summer recess, and the final big decisions of the term are to
SF News Is John Roberts Sweating The End Of SCOTUS Term? Next week is going to bring decisions in the four "marquee" cases (and seven others) left to be announced by the Supreme Court, and from the sounds of it, they may still be
SF News Scalia Hate Ramps Up On The Web After Two Very Gay Days At The SCOTUS We should all know by now that Justice Antonin Scalia is a stubborn old man who will never stop insisting that his only job is read the exact words of the Constitution and
SF News Video: What It Looked Like Exiting the Supreme Court Today Former SFister Matt Baume was in DC and got to breeze through today's Supreme Court hearings on the DOMA case, a.k.a. United States v. Windsor. He took some cell phone video
SF News Supreme Court '80% Likely' To Strike Down Defense Of Marriage Act Round two of the Supreme Court's discussion of same-sex marriage this week finds the highest court in the land debating the constitutionality of the Defense of Marriage Act, one of the more questionable
SF News Supreme Court Likely To Dismiss Prop 8 Case, Allow Same-Sex Marriages In California In Washington, D.C. this morning, the Supreme Court heard oral arguments from opponents and defenders of California's same-sex marriage ban. The purpose of this morning's hearing was to simply to decide whether
SF News Photos: Scenes From Outside The Supreme Court During Prop 8 Oral Arguments In Washington DC this morning, the Supreme Court heard oral arguments on Proposition 8, California's ban on same-sex marriage. The signs and protests from both sides demonstrating outside the courthouse this morning were
SF News Chief Justice John Roberts' Lesbian Cousin To Attend SCOTUS Hearings On Gay Marriage Chief Justice John Roberts has an openly lesbian cousin from San Francisco, 48-year-old Jean Podrasky, and she's in D.C. this week to sit in on the Supreme Court hearings on the Prop
SF News Bill Clinton Finally Admits DOMA Should Be Overturned Former President Bill Clinton has finally come out publicly against the Defense of Marriage Act, which he signed into law in 1996. As he puts it in a Washington Post editorial today, "it
SF News Obama Takes Strong Stand for Gay Marriage, Files Amicus Brief in Prop 8 Case President Obama and his administration today filed a pretty historic amicus brief outlining the ways in which California's Prop 8 violates the Constitution and equal protection. As the Sac Bee notes, "The declaration
SF News It's About Time: Prominent Republicans Change Tune On Gay Marriage Dozens of prominent Republicans, 75 and counting as of last night, have signed an amicus brief being filed with the Supreme Court in support of gay marriage, and the overturning of California's Proposition
SF News Boy Scouts Possibly Doing An About-Face On Gay Ban In a surprising turn of events, the Boy Scouts of America is apparently close to reversing its stance on allowing gay scouts and scout leaders, just six months after the organization reaffirmed its
SF News Supreme Court Sets Dates for Prop 8 and DOMA Hearings As we learned last month, somewhat anxiously, the Supreme Court will be hearing and likely issuing rulings on the constitutionality of California's Proposition 8 and the Defense of Marriage Act in their current
SF News Supreme Court Agrees to (Maybe) Rule on Prop 8 Case, One DOMA Case [Updated] In their conference today, the Supreme Court has agreed to review the legality of California's Proposition 8, both its merits and whether or not the proponents had standing to appeal the federal court
SF News Supreme Court Says Nothing Yet With Regard to Gay Marriage Cases Once again, we're left waiting to hear if and how the Supreme Court is going to address the various legal challenges to gay marriage laws around the country. At their meeting today, though
SF News Prop 8, DOMA Cases Go Before Supreme Court On Friday In the ongoing legal battle between people who just want to marry each other and people who have an antiquated definition of marriage, the Supreme Court is expected to decide this week whether
