PROFILE
FROM Ted Boutrous
A Look Back at the Legal Battle over Prop 8 On today's To the Point we heard about today's arguments before the US Supreme Court, which is being asked to throw out laws against same-sex marriage in four states. In 2008, California voters approved Prop 8 , which defined marriage as only between a man and a woman. Prop 8 then went on a long and tortured journey through the federal courts . Ted Boutrous, with Gibson Dunn & Crutcher, represented same-sex plaintiffs in a case that overturned it.
Bad Teachers, Minority Students and the Constitution It's now up to Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Rolf Treu to decide a case brought by Students Matter , a group funded by Silicon Valley businessman David Welch. He hired two nationally known attorneys to represent nine mostly minority kids, claiming California's teacher protection laws give some students a better education than others. One witness was LA Unified Superintendent John Deasy, who compared a school in Encino to one in South Los Angeles by observing, "we have not struck down the wall of educational apartheid in this country."
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