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?Gay marriage supporters say Prop 8 ruling hard to overturn?

By Alliance Alert

On Top Mag ("gay advocacy website"): "'Only a trial court [like Walker's] can make factual findings,' lawyer Brian Devine said in his analysis, adding that Walker devotes 109 pages of his 138-page ruling to factual findings. 'A Court of Appeal must give great deference to the factual findings of the trial court, especially when those findings are based on the credibility of witness testimony.' . . . 'We will certainly appeal this disappointing decision,' [Brian Raum], senior counsel at the Alliance Defense Fund (ADF), whose attorneys defended Proposition 8, said. 'Its impact could be devastating to marriage and the democratic process.'

Full post as published by Constitutionally Correct on August 05, 2010 (boomark / email).