NewsWrap for the week ending August 14, 2010

SUMMARY

Mexican Marriages Good - Mexico's Supreme Court rules that the same-gender marriages in Mexico City that they said last week are constitutional must be recognized across the country ...

Costa Rican Minorities Protected - Costa Rica's Constitutional Court rejects a proposed civil unions ballot measure sponsored by Roman Catholic groups because a majority cannot be allowed to vote on the rights of a minority ...

Prop 8-legged Leviathan - additional legal wrangling over the federal constitutionality of California's marriage equality-banning Proposition 8 continues ...

GOP H8s Liu - Republican Senators are blocking the presidential nomination of liberal legal scholar Goodwin Liu to the Ninth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, where the next battle in the Prop 8 fight is taking place ...

Equality Winning - new CNN poll shows first-time national majority support in the U.S. for same-gender marriage equality ...

Attorneys Defend Marriage - American Bar Association's House of Delegates recommends that all legal barriers to civil marriage for gay and lesbian couples be removed ...

"Fierce Advocate" Alert - Obama administration has 60 days to appeal a federal court ruling in Massachusetts that overturned key provisions of DOMA, the Defense of Marriage Act, which bans U.S. government recognition of legally-married same-gender couples ...

Request For Back-up - Lt. Col. Victor Fehrenbach, believed to be the highest-ranking U.S. military officer currently facing the boot under "Don't Ask Don't Tell," files a first-ever federal lawsuit to prevent his discharge ....

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