outside courthouse Dec 6, 2010 - arguments on gay marriage

2 activists for prop 8 talk about the family being the center of our society while a gay man challenge them. (12-06) 18:10 PST SAN FRANCISCO -- The federal appeals court in the Proposition 8 case hinted Monday at a ruling that would allow gays and lesbians to marry in California while leaving other states' laws intact - a restrained approach seemingly designed to appeal to the US Supreme Court. Lawyers challenging the 2008 initiative urged the Ninth US Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco to uphold a federal judge's ruling in August that Prop. 8 violated the US Constitution because its definition of marriage as the union of a man and a woman discriminated on the basis of gender and sexual orientation. But in a nationally televised, 2 1/2-hour hearing, the three-judge appellate panel seemed intent on framing the case more narrowly before it reaches the Supreme Court. Judges Michael Hawkins and Stephen Reinhardt compared the case to a 1996 Supreme Court ruling overturning a Colorado initiative that prohibited local governments from enacting civil rights laws protecting gays and lesbians. Without deciding whether the Constitution banned all anti-gay discrimination, the high court said stripping rights from a minority group, for no apparent reason other than moral disapproval, was unconstitutional. What's different? Hawkins noted that California voters approved Prop. 8 six months after the state Supreme Court ruled that gays and lesbians had the right to marry. "How is ...



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Powerful bomb blast outside Delhi High Court, 9 killed - Indian .

WATCH FULL VIDEO AT THIS LINK :::: goo.gl A bomb apparently hidden in a briefcase exploded Wednesday as people lined up outside a top court in New Delhi, killing 10 people and wounding scores more in the deadliest attack in India's capital in nearly three years. The blast near a gate at the High Court, the second at the building in five months, came despite a high alert in the city and renewed doubts about India's ability to protect even its most important institutions despite a security overhaul that followed the 2008 Mumbai siege. "There was smoke everywhere. People were running. People were shouting. There was blood everywhere. It was very, very scary," said Sangeeta Sondhi, a lawyer, who was parking her car near the gate when the bomb exploded. A Muslim militant group claimed responsibility for the blast in an email, but investigators said it was too early to name any group as suspects. The government rallied Indians to remain defiant in the face of such attacks. "We will never succumb to the pressure of terrorists," Prime Minister Manmohan Singh said during a visit to neighboring Bangladesh. "This is a long war in which all political parties and all the people of India will have to stand united so that this scourge of terrorism is crushed." The bomb exploded about 10:14 am near a line of more than 100 people waiting at a reception counter for passes to enter the court building to have their cases heard. The High Court is an appeals panel below India's Supreme Court ...



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Lawrence Lessig: Congress to Blame for Bush Era Mistakes

Complete video at: fora.tv Stanford Law professor Lawrence Lessig explores the concept of institutional responsibility by comparing a boarding school sexual abuse case with Congress during the Administration of President George W. Bush. In both cases, he argues that witnesses who did not act responsibly should be held just as culpable as the offender. ----- Larry Lessig introduces the Safra lecture series with a discussion on institutional corruption. He explores the prevalence of this form of corruption in fields ranging from politics to medicine to journalism, and describes his plan to study and contain this problem. - Safra Foundation Center for Ethics at Harvard University Lawrence Lessig is a professor of law at Stanford Law School and founder of the school's Center for Internet and Society. He teaches and writes in the areas of constitutional law, contracts, and the law of cyberspace. Prior to joining the Stanford faculty, he was Berkman Professor of Law at Harvard Law School and a professor at the University of Chicago. He clerked for Judge Richard Posner on the 7th Circuit Court of Appeals and for Justice Antonin Scalia on the United States Supreme Court. For much of his career, he has focused on law and technology, especially as it affects copyright. Recognized for arguing against interpretations of copyright that could stifle innovation and discourse online, he is CEO of the Creative Commons project, and he has been a columnist for Wired, Red Herring, and The Industry Standard.



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