Month August 2010

“Proposition 8 cannot survive any level of scrutiny under the Equal Protection Clause,” wrote [Chief Judge] Walker. “Excluding same-sex couples from marriage is simply not rationally related to a legitimate state interest.”

U.S. District Chief Judge Vaughn R. Walker said Proposition 8, passed by voters in November 2008, violated the federal constitutional rights of gays and lesbians to marry the partners of their choice.