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  title info:
    title: Speak now
    sub title: marriage equality on trial : the story of Hollingsworth v. Perry
  name:
    name part: Yoshino, Kenji
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  genre: Trials, litigation, etc.
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: nyu
    date issued: 2015
    copyright date: 2015
    edition: First Edition.
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: viii, 373 pages ; 25 cm
  abstract: "A renowned legal scholar tells the definitive story of Hollingsworth v. Perry, the trial that will stand as the most potent argument for marriage equality. In 2008, California voters passed Proposition 8, rescinding the right of same-sex couples to marry in the state. Advocates for marriage equality were outraged. Still, major gay-rights groups opposed a federal challenge to the law, warning that it would be dangerously premature. A loss could set the movement back for decades. A small group of activists, however, refused to wait. They turned to corporate lawyers Ted Olson and David Boies--best known for arguing opposite sides of Bush v. Gore--who filed a groundbreaking federal suit against the law. A distinguished constitutional law scholar, Kenji Yoshino was also a newly married gay man who at first felt ambivalent about the suit. Nonetheless, he recognized that Chief Judge Vaughn Walker's decision to hold a trial in the case was momentous. Boies and Olson rose to the occasion, deftly deploying arguments that LGBT advocates had honed through years of litigation and debate. Reading the 3,000-page transcript, Yoshino discovered a shining civil rights document--the most rigorous and compelling exploration he had seen of the nature of marriage, the political status of gays and lesbians, the ideal circumstances for raising children, and the inability of direct democracy to protect fundamental rights. After that tense twelve-day trial, Walker issued a resounding and historic ruling: California's exclusion of same-sex couples from civil marriage violated the U.S. Constitution. In June 2013, the United States Supreme Court denied the final appeal in Hollingsworth v. Perry, leaving same-sex couples in California free to marry. Drawing on interviews with lawyers and witnesses on both sides of the case, Yoshino takes us deep inside the trial. He brings the legal arguments to life, not only through his account of the case, but also by sharing his own story of finding love, m…
  note: Kenji Yoshino.
  note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
  subject:
    geographic code: n-us---
    geographic code: n-us-ca
  subject:
    name:
      name part: Hollingsworth, Dennis
      name part: 1967-
    topic: Trials, litigation, etc
  subject:
    name:
      name part: Perry, Kristin
    topic: Trials, litigation, etc
  subject:
    topic: Same-sex marriage
    topic: Law and legislation
    geographic: United States
    topic: Cases
  subject:
    topic: Gay couples
    topic: Legal status, laws, etc
    geographic: United States
    topic: Cases
  subject:
    name:
      name part: United States.
  subject:
    name:
      name part: California.
  subject:
    topic: LAW / Civil Rights
  subject:
    topic: SOCIAL SCIENCE / Gay Studies
  subject:
    topic: LAW / Legal History
  subject:
    name:
      name part: Hollingsworth, Dennis
      name part: 1967-
  subject:
    name:
      name part: Perry, Kristin
  subject:
    title info:
      title: Defense of Marriage Act (United States)
  subject:
    title info:
      title: Proposition 8 (California : 2008)
  subject:
    topic: Gay couples
    topic: Legal status, laws, etc
  subject:
    topic: Same-sex marriage
    topic: Law and legislation
  subject:
    topic: Trials
  subject:
    geographic: United States
  classification: KF229.H654 Y67 2015
  classification: 346.79401/68
  classification: LAW013000 SOC012000 LAW060000
  identifier: 9780385348805 (hardback)
  identifier: 0385348800 (hardback)
  identifier: 9780385348812 (eBook)
  identifier: 9780385348829 (pbk.)
  identifier: 0385348827 (pbk.)
  identifier: 0385348819 (ebk.)
  identifier: 2014042967
  record info:
    record content source: DLC
    record creation date: 141030
    record change date: 20150504144737.0
    record identifier: in00003532550
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng