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"We fully expected an appeal and are more than ready to meet it head on," said Mary Bonauto, GLAD's civil rights project director. "DOMA brings harm to [...]

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tells OneNewsNow a federal judge struck down the DOMA law as unconstitutional in those two cases in July, but the rulings are on hold pending appeal. [...]

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UPDATE: The Justice Department announced today it will appeal the Massachusetts ruling striking down DOMA. In related news, a federal judge this afternoon [...]

12 Oct 2010 “We fully expected an appeal and are more than ready to meet it head on,” said Mary L. Bonauto, GLAD's Civil Rights Project Director. “DOMA [...]

12 Oct 2010 Earlier, I noted that a federal judge had ordered an injunction against discharges of gay soldiers under the military's Don't Ask Don't Tell [...]

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The Department of Justice, Smith said, provided a halfhearted legal defense of the law in Tauro's court and cannot be trusted to vigorously defend the 1996 act, known as DOMA, which President Barack Obama would like to see repealed. [...]

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Lamar Smith is asking to be allowed to step in to an appeal to defend DOMA, the noxious law passed in the nineties that institutionalized bigotry against gays and lesbians who wished to get married. Smith, a noted wearer of toupee's [...]

A stay was issued in a case challenging the Defense of Marriage Act, allowing the government time to appeal the ruling in favor of Massachusetts gay couples who want the federal [...]

President Barack Obama has repeatedly said he would like to see the DOMA law repealed. But the Justice Department has defended its constitutionality, which it is required to do. Massachusetts was the first state to legalize gay marriage [...]

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Legal experts across the board are expecting the administration to appeal the decisions as many LGBT advocates grumble that the defense of DOMA in court [...]

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Will DOJ respond today in appeal of DOMA? Timothy Kincaid. October 12th, 2010. By my counting, today is the day that the Department of Justice must file an appeal to the court ruling which found that portions of the Defense of Marriage [...]

Hot on the heels of the Prop 8 ruling in California that determined a ban on same sex marriage violates California's constitution, a federal judge officially entered his judgment [...]

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According to GLAD's Civil Rights Project Director “We fully expected an appeal and are more than ready to meet it head on. DOMA brings harm to families like [...]

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Please Sign: Don't Appeal DOMA. Hi, I just signed on to a letter from the Courage Campaign to President Obama asking him to not appeal a decision that gave us a major victory in the fight for equality for LGBT Americans. [...]

The Justice Department today filed an appeal of the federal court decision that ruled that the Defense of Marriage Act, which defines marriage as heterosexual, unconstitutional. The notice of appeal says little, other than that the federal government is appealing the ruling. The appeal comes the sam [...]

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“We fully expected an appeal and are more than ready to meet it head on,” Mary L. Bonauto, GLAD's Civil Rights Project Director, said in the statement. “DOMA brings harm to families like our plaintiffs every day, denying married couples [...]

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Obama Administration to Appeal DOMA ruling!! The Obama Administration has decided to appeal the ruling this past summer in Massachusetts on the Defense of Marriage Act. As you may recall, the Defense of Marriage Act was ruled [...]

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BREAKING: Obama Files Appeal Defending DOMA. Posted by Admin (Eric) at 3:48 PM. Placed in Gay Marriage, National/International category. The Obama Administration has just filed a notice of appeal in Massachussettes, seeking to defend [...]

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BOSTON (AP) — The U.S. Department of Justice is defending the federal law defining marriage as between a man and a woman by appealing rulings in Massachusetts by a judge who called the law unconstitutional for denying federal benefits to gay married couples. [...]

Clock now ticking on DOMA appeals Published on Wednesday, August 18, Both lawsuits challenged Section 3 of DOMA, which limits the definition of marriage for [...]

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Justice could do nothing and let DOMA be invalidated without further fighting. I figure that's logical but not likely to happen with such an emotionally and politically loaded subject. Justice could appeal to the First Circuit Court of [...]

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I know for example that the DOMA cases in Massachusetts would only apply to same-sex couples in Massachusetts if the DOJ didn't appeal those. The other forty-nine states would be SOL and DOMA would still apply to them. [...]

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DOJ to Appeal GLAD's DOMA win in MA. normally, I wouldn't want to pour cold water on good news, just think it's important to remember exactly who we are dealing with here. as pointed out by others, Obama once called DOMA “abhorrent” [...]

Dismissing an appeal has more significance than simply refusing to hear the appeal. appeal of the DOMA case won't attract plenty of amicus briefs that [...]

Read the article and comments here By Chris Geidner Illustration by Scott Brooks, ''State of Play'' Published on October 7, 2010, 3:03am | 5 Comments, 78 Tweets Mara Keisling, the executive director of the National Center for Transgender Equality, had a key legislative priority for the 111th Congres [...]