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Gay Rights took a pause yesterday when the Federal Appeals Court reversed a lower court ruling that found DODT unconstitutional. The ruling keeps the military policy in place, at least for now.
from http://www.nytimes.com/2010/11/02/us/02military.html?src=twt&twt=nytimespolitics
A federal appeals court will allow the military to continue enforcing the law restricting the service of openly gay men and women in the military while a lower court decision that struck the law down as unconstitutional is being appealed.
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Times Topic: Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell
A federal judge in California, Virginia A. Phillips, ruled on Sept. 9 that the “don’t ask, don’t tell” law violated the equal protection and First Amendment rights of service members, and wrote that it had a “direct and deleterious effect” on the armed services. On Oct. 12, she ordered the military to stop enforcing the law nationwide.
The Defense Department asked the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit to allow the status quo to continue as the case made its way through the courts. It has narrowed its own process for dismissing openly gay people under the policy
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