Judge deals a rhetorical blow to DOMA

This is a small decision that governs court personnel, but it seems to imply that there is law that is more important than DOMA when it comes to government benefits nonetheless:

A gay lawyer in the federal public defender's office in Los Angeles, denied government health coverage for his husband after their marriage last year, is entitled to extra pay to cover the cost of private insurance, a federal appeals court judge ruled Wednesday.
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Judge To Prop 8 Backers: Turn Over The Paperwork NOW

On Friday a federal judge in San Francisco ruled that the backers of Proposition 8 must immediately turn over their internal documents.
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Petition Signers Can’t Keep Names Secret

From the LA Times: Washington state voters who signed petitions to repeal a law enhancing rights for same-sex couples don’t enjoy a right to confidentiality, and their names can be disclosed to the public, a federal appeals court panel ruled Thursday.
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R-71 Names Battle Referred To Full Supreme Court

Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy has referred the R-71 names battle to the full Court for review.
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Justice blocks names in gay rights ballot measure

(Washington) Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy has temporarily blocked Washington state officials from releasing the names of people who signed a ballot measure on gay rights.
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Justice blocks names in gay rights ballot measure

Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy has temporarily blocked Washington state officials from releasing the names of people who signed a ballot measure on gay rights.
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Court allows release of domestic partner petitions

(Seattle) Washington's secretary of state can release the names and addresses of people who signed petitions calling for a public vote on the state's expanded benefits for domestic partners, a federal appeals court said Thursday.
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Gay-rights opponents to appeal ruling on Ref. 71 names

Protect Marriage Washington, which collected the signatures to get Referendum 71 on the November ballot, said it will appeal today's federal appeals court ruling that cleared the way for public release of the names of those who signed petitions for the measure.
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Court Throws Out $5m Verdict Against Fred Phelps and Followers

A federal appeals court has, in effect, ruled that the right of Americans to spew hatred is protected by the U.
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Anti-gay church's protest outside funeral called protected speech

A federal appeals court ruled Thursday that a fundamentalist Kansas church's protest outside the funeral of a Westminster Marine killed in Iraq is protected speech and did not violate the privacy of the service member's family, reversing a lower court's $5 million award.
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Brooklyn Tech HS Students Rally to Oppose Westboro Baptist

On the same day a federal appeals court overturned a $5 million judgment against the hateful Westboro Baptist Church and ruled even "distasteful and repugnant" speech is protected by the First Amendment: Five anti-gay hatemongers from the Kansas-based "church" were.
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Item: Court tosses out Westboro verdict

   ::: A federal appeals court has tossed out a $5 million verdict levied against the notoriously anti-gay Westboro Baptist Church after members of the church protested outside the Maryland funeral of a marine killed in Iraq.
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Feds Overturn Westboro Judgment, Rule Freedom Of Speech

On the same day that the Westboro Baptist Church staged an anti-Semitic rally in Brooklyn, a federal appeals court overturned a $5M judgment against them won by the father of a soldier whose funeral they had picketed.
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Reversal of (un)fortun(at)e: Karma bill now the only one that WBC owes

As much as it pains us to say: We actually agree with this ruling: A federal appeals court reversed a $5 million judgment (originally an $11 million judgment, which was reduced) against Fred Phelps' Westboro Baptist Church, ruling that the.
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Free Speech: Court Reverses $5 Million Ruling Against Gay, Jew, and Soldier-Hating Westboro Baptist Church

A federal appeals court reversed a $5 million judgment (originally an $11 million judgment, which was reduced) against Fred Phelps' Westboro Baptist Church, ruling that the church's protest outside the funeral of an Iraq veteran was free speech: "The ruling.
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Court nixes $5M verdict against Phelps

(Richmond, Va.) A federal appeals court on Thursday tossed out a $5 million verdict against protesters who carried signs with inflammatory messages like "Thank God for dead soldiers" outside the Maryland funeral of a U.
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Hiding Behind Religion and Freedom of Speech

According to a post in the Baltimore Sun: A federal appeals court ruled Thursday that a fundamentalist Kansas church’s protest outside the funeral of a Westminster Marine killed in Iraq is protected speech and did not violate the privacy of the service member’s family, reversing a lower court’s $5 million award.
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This week's flotsam and jetsam

It's Thursday, so it's time for another roundup of tidbits from around the web that we didn't get the time to cover in depth.
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OPINION: Lawsuit Progresses Against Religious Youth Home

By Americans United A federal appeals court ruled that a lawsuit brought by the American Civil Liberties Union and .
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Gay man can proceed with gender stereotyping suit: Court

PHILADELPHIA—A gay man is not necessarily barred from filing a sex discrimination claim under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, even if there is no federal law banning discrimination based on sexual orientation per se, a federal appeals court has ruled.
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