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Redeeming the Dream: The Inside Story of the Most Important Civil Rights Case in a Generation Hardback - 2014
by Olson, Theodore B.; Boies, David
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The riveting inside story of the most important civil rights case in a generationthe defeat of Proposition 8
On June 26, 2013, the Supreme Court of the United States issued a pair of landmark decisions, striking down the Defense of Marriage Act and eliminating California’s discriminatory Proposition 8, reinstating the freedom to marry for gays and lesbians in California.
In Redeeming the Dream, David Boies and Theodore B. Olsontwo of America’s foremost legal titans, who battled all the way to the Supreme Court in Bush v. Goretell, as allies and not foes, the fascinating story of Proposition 8. From its adoption by voters in 2008, to the federal legal challenge waged against it in a historic trial that declared Proposition 8 unconstitutional in 2010, to its rise on appeal and victory before the highest court in the land in Hollingsworth v. Perry in 2013, Boies and Olson are unmatched in telling the story of the journey of defeating Proposition 8.
Boies and Olson guide readers through the legal framing of the case, making crystal clear the Constitutional principles of due process and equal protection in support of marriage equality, while explaining, with intricacy, the basic human truths they set out to prove when the duo put state-sanctioned discrimination on trial.
Redeeming the Dream offers readers an authoritative, dramatic and up-close account of the most important civil rights issuefought and wonsince Brown v. Board of Education and Loving v. Virginia.
On June 26, 2013, the Supreme Court of the United States issued a pair of landmark decisions, striking down the Defense of Marriage Act and eliminating California’s discriminatory Proposition 8, reinstating the freedom to marry for gays and lesbians in California.
In Redeeming the Dream, David Boies and Theodore B. Olsontwo of America’s foremost legal titans, who battled all the way to the Supreme Court in Bush v. Goretell, as allies and not foes, the fascinating story of Proposition 8. From its adoption by voters in 2008, to the federal legal challenge waged against it in a historic trial that declared Proposition 8 unconstitutional in 2010, to its rise on appeal and victory before the highest court in the land in Hollingsworth v. Perry in 2013, Boies and Olson are unmatched in telling the story of the journey of defeating Proposition 8.
Boies and Olson guide readers through the legal framing of the case, making crystal clear the Constitutional principles of due process and equal protection in support of marriage equality, while explaining, with intricacy, the basic human truths they set out to prove when the duo put state-sanctioned discrimination on trial.
Redeeming the Dream offers readers an authoritative, dramatic and up-close account of the most important civil rights issuefought and wonsince Brown v. Board of Education and Loving v. Virginia.
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- Title Redeeming the Dream: The Inside Story of the Most Important Civil Rights Case in a Generation
- Author Olson, Theodore B.; Boies, David
- Binding Hardback
- Edition F First Edition
- Pages 310
- Language EN
- Publisher Viking Adult, NY
- Date 2014-06-17
- ISBN 9780670015962
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