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  title info:
    title: Speak now
    sub title: marriage equality on trial : the story of Hollingsworth v. Perry
  title info:
    title: Marriage equality on trial
    sub title: the story of Hollingsworth v. Perry
  title info:
    title: 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: 2016
    edition: First paperback edition.
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: ix, 389 pages ; 21 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…
  table of contents: Before. The plaintiffs ; The movement lawyers ; The proponents ; Getting to trial -- The Trial. Curtain up ; The right to marry ; A history of discrimination ; Immutability ; Political powerlessness ; The ideal family ; A threat to marriage ; The bare desire to harm ; The phantom witnesses -- After. The trial court ; The Court of Appeals ; The Supreme Court ; Civil ceremonies.
  note: Kenji Yoshino.
  note: Contains "Extra libris" bonus book material in back of book.
  note: The Cushing Library/Women & Gender Studies copy was acquired as part of The Don Kelly Research Collection of Gay Literature and Culture.
  note: Originally published: New York : Crown Publishers, [2015]
  note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 313-360) 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:
    name:
      name part: United States.
  subject:
    name:
      name part: California.
  subject:
    topic: Same-sex marriage
    topic: Law and legislation
    geographic: United States
    genre: Cases
  subject:
    topic: Gay couples
    topic: Legal status, laws, etc
    geographic: United States
    genre: Cases
  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
  subject:
    name:
      name part: Hollingsworth, Dennis
      name part: 1967-
    genre: Trials, litigation, etc
  subject:
    name:
      name part: Perry, Kristin
    genre: Trials, litigation, etc
  subject:
    name:
      name part: United States.
  subject:
    name:
      name part: California.
  subject:
    topic: Same-sex marriage
    topic: Law and legislation
    geographic: United States
    genre: Cases
  subject:
    topic: Gay couples
    topic: Legal status, laws, etc
    geographic: United States
    genre: Cases
  classification: HQ1034.U6 Y67 2016
  classification: 346.79401/68
  related item:
    origin info:
      publisher: New York : Crown Publishers, [2015]
  identifier: 9780385348829
  identifier: 0385348827
  identifier: 2016295315
  record info:
    record content source: DLC
    record creation date: 160224
    record change date: 20240410160222.9
    record identifier: in00004786465
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng