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Teachers’ suit could rock unions

By: Melissa Griffin 05/12/13 4:00 AM
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According to California Watch, an affiliate of the Center for Investigative Reporting, the California Teachers Association was the state’s most generous political contributor between 2001 and 2011. The total amount calculated by California Watch doesn’t even include the $75 million that the group un-ironically spent last fall to defeat a ballot measure that would prohibit public employee unions from contributing to political campaigns. Read More

Farsighted view of marriage equality

By: Joel P. Engardio 04/10/13 9:31 PM
In the same week the Supreme Court heard its two historic cases on same-sex marriage, Google announced the first lucky test subjects who would get to try Google Glass — history-making eyewear that puts the Internet in your field of vision. None of the justices were selected, but maybe Google should lend them a pair before they reach a decision in June. Read More

Why the Prop. 8 case is no slam-dunk

By: Melissa Griffin 04/04/13 9:31 PM
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Without a U.S. Supreme Court ruling on the merits of same-sex marriage, the issue will once again head back to court in California. Last week, I wrote that the court should let the backers of ballot initiatives sue to enforce any such measures passed by voters but not enforced by government officials. If justices don’t, that could prevent them from issuing a substantive ruling on the fundamental right to marry raised in the Proposition 8 case they are considering. Read More

U.S. Supreme Court should side with Prop. 8 backers on one key issue

By: Melissa Griffin 03/31/13 4:00 AM
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At Tuesday’s U.S. Supreme Court hearing regarding California’s ban on same-sex marriage, the very first question, from Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg to Charles Cooper, was, “Have we ever granted standing to proponents of ballot initiatives?” Read More

A narrow ruling likely on Prop. 8, but reasons for optimism nonetheless

By: SF Examiner Editorial 03/27/13 11:39 PM
Reading too much into the questions that U.S. Supreme Court justices ask during oral arguments and then leaping to conclusions about the likely outcome of their deliberations can leave one looking foolish when a final ruling is issued. But at Tuesday’s Supreme Court hearing regarding Proposition 8, the justices seemed to clearly telegraph the low likelihood of a sweeping ruling involving same-sex marriage. Read More

Michelle Shocked’s intolerance exposes positive gains for gay rights movement

By: SF Examiner Editorial 03/24/13 1:02 AM
Negative though it was, musician Michelle Shocked’s anti-gay outburst at a San Francisco nightclub last week actually exposed a lot of positives. The horrified reaction was instant and wide-reaching, and it showed just how far our society has come in accepting the LGBT community. Read More

San Francisco Justice Summit to focus on landmark Supreme Court ruling

By: Mike Aldax 03/17/13 6:34 PM
Fifty years ago today, a U.S. Supreme Court ruling mandated that poor defendants accused of serious crimes must be provided with an attorney in order for there to be a fair trial. Read More

San Francisco to fix tax disparity for same-sex pairs’ health care

By: Joshua Sabatini 03/05/13 9:00 PM
Following the lead of other cities like Cambridge, Mass., and companies like Google, San Francisco will begin picking up the federal tax bill for health benefits provided to the same-sex partners of San Francisco government workers. The Board of Supervisors gave final and unanimous approval Tuesday to legislation introduced by Supervisor Mark Farrell that, he said, “counters what is very much a discriminatory federal tax policy.” Read More

Governments should not tax the health premiums paid by gay couples

By: SF Examiner Editorial 02/21/13 10:10 PM
Much is said about marriage equality for same-sex couples, and this paper fully supports the right of gay couples to wed. But at a broader level, there is vast inequality in other ways in which the government treats same-sex couples. Consider health insurance. Read More

Dennis Herrera presents S.F.'s argument against Prop. 8 in U.S. Supreme Court brief

By: Albert Samaha 02/21/13 4:55 PM
City Attorney Dennis Herrera filed a brief filed today in the U.S. Supreme Court, claiming that relegating gay couples to a lesser status simply to brand them as different and less worthy than opposite-sex couples is not a legitimate purpose of Proposition 8. Read More

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