Announcement of reply brief filed by The National Center for Lesbian Rights, the American Civil Liberties Union, and Lambd

01/05/09 ACLU press release: " San Francisco—The National Center for Lesbian Rights, the American Civil Liberties Union, and Lambda Legal filed a reply brief on Jan. 5 in the California Supreme Court, the next step in the lawsuit seeking to overturn Proposition 8."

01/06/09 LA Times: The LA Times reports the following comment:

Shannon Minter, the lawyer for the National Center for Lesbian Rights, said his team's legal position nevertheless has the same "core principles" as Brown's.

"To be candid, we hadn't thought of framing it in this way," he said of Brown's approach. "But when I read the argument, I was immediately persuaded."

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