U.S. District Judge Vaughn Walker set a rather quick trial date of January 2010 in the Perry v. Schwarzenegger lawsuit challenging the constitutional validity of Proposition 8 and has denied the request of several LGBT community groups in California — represented by the ACLU, Lambda Legal and NCLR — to intervene in the case. The similar request of the Campaign for California Families, which had supported Proposition 8, to intervene also was denied.
Judge Walker did, however, grant the request of the City of San Francisco to intervene. According to Lambda Legal’s Jason Howe, the judge “said they showed a government interest that wasn’t represented by any of the current parties.”
Additionally, the American Foundation for Equal Rights, a new organization created for this lawsuit, has announced that Judge Walker has set the trial in the case for January 11, 2010. That represents a very quick trial, in terms of federal court timelines, and will keep the parties very busy over the coming months.
Chad Griffin, the board president of AFER, said in a news release, “Proposition 8 compels our government to treat people differently under the law simply because of who they are. That injustice cannot be corrected fast enough.”
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