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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cstrong>By Don Clyde, Dan Brekke, Lisa Aliferis, Lisa Pickoff-White and Alex Emslie\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/07/03/bart-strike-update\">Click here for BART Strike Day 3 Updates\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/06/28/transportation-alternatives-during-possible-bart-strike/\">KQED's Guide to BART Alternatives \u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://alert.511.org/\">511.org BART Strike Info\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/bart-strike-the-cost-of-public-employee-strikes\">Are Walkouts Worth It?\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Back to the negotiating table\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>BART management and representatives from Service Employees International Union 1021 and Amalgamated Transit Union 1555 resumed negotiations tonight, but neither side has released any new proposals. Last anyone has heard, BART offered an 8 percent salary increase over four years, and the unions had only reduced their offer of 23.2 percent. BART employees don't currently pay anything toward their pensions, and they pay a $92 flat fee each month for health insurance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The unions argue that BART’s 8 percent offer is partially dependent on boosted ridership, and demanding more for benefit contributions would turn the pay raise offer into a de facto pay cut. The unions also have repeatedly brought up safety concerns, including what they say is inadequate track lighting and protection for station agents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So who is bringing the parties together?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The California labor secretary urged both sides to talk, and has sent in two new mediators, Anita I. Martinez, chair of the Public Employment Relations Board, and Loretta van der Pol, chief of the State Mediation and Conciliation Service.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>State officials aren't the only ones concerned about ending the strike.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Bay Area Council, a business advocacy group, said late yesterday the strike could have a lasting impact on the Bay Area’s economy. The council’s economic institute estimates the strike is costing the Bay Area $73 million per day in lost wages.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s a lot of money to be lost from an economy that’s just coming back,” Bay Area Council President and CEO Jim Wunderman said. “This is going to have an impact. It will impact peoples’ wages. It’s going to impact tax revenues. This is serious stuff. This isn’t small.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The last BART strike in 1997 lasted 6 days.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!--more-->\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Tuesday traffic worsens\u003cstrong>\u003c/strong>\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_102313\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-102313\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/07/almetria1-2.jpg\" alt=\"Line at the interim Transbay Terminal. (Almetria Vaba/KQED)\" width=\"640\" height=\"384\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Line at the interim Transbay Terminal. (Almetria Vaba/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Tuesday has been a mess, with \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgate.com/news/article/BART-talks-to-restart-as-commute-tightens-4642262.php\" target=\"_blank\">traffic snarling\u003c/a> the Bay Bridge before 6 a.m. Golden Gate Ferries between Larkspur and San Francisco \u003ca href=\"http://goldengate.org/bart/july2013.php\" target=\"_blank\">carried twice as many passengers\u003c/a> Tuesday morning as Monday morning.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The eye test suggests things are about the same today, with maybe a bit more traffic,” AC Transit spokesman Clarence Johnson said late Tuesday afternoon. “Certainly there’s a feeling that because this is a holiday week, people may have had regularly scheduled vacations they took, so there’s the fear that the number of commuters could grow substantially in the coming days.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>We want you (to tell us about your commute)\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you've been following the BART strike and thinking to yourself that your commute is really newsworthy, now is your chance. KQED wants to hear your stories about a quirky or especially cumbersome commute during the BART strike. Call us at 415-553-8455. We might share your story on the air.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Waiting for the boat\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With BART workers on strike, thousands of people in the Bay Area have turned to ferries to cross the bay. This morning it took KQED's reporter Andrew Stelzer more than three minutes to bike from the beginning to the end of the queue at Oakland'd Jack London ferry terminal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ciframe src=\"//www.youtube.com/embed/nkk4TA2cTrg?list=UU0FISFbEaHFc5ccrIgkZ3mg\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\">\u003c/iframe>\u003cbr>\n\u003c!--more-->\u003cbr>\n\u003cstrong>Confusion at SFO\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What's worse than jetlag? Flying into a transit strike.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The BART strike is causing some confusion for travelers flying into San Francisco International. The airport is providing free shuttle service to the Millbrae CalTrain station, but finding the shuttle can be challenging.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Joe Quinn from New York says he just arrived to visit friends in San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"[I] Kept stopping at information station [after] information station to find out where I had to go,\" he said. \"Probably been walking around for about twenty minutes or so. There's no real signage or anything telling you where to go or where things are located.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Quinn said his friends sent him text messages that BART was down.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, many other travellers said they didn't know anything about the strike until they reached the BART entrance and found it closed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mike and Laura Cartner just arrived from Maryland for the their 20th anniversary: \"There was nothing to tell us it was closed before we got here.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To be fair, a recorded voice periodically announces BART is closed and tells passengers to go to an information booth for help. But it's easy to miss in the din of the airport.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Best commute?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>KQED's Alex Emslie spoke with a man locally known as having the \u003ca href=\"http://archive.oaklandlocal.com/blogs/2010/09/best-commute-ever\">best commute ever\u003c/a>. Stephen Linaweaver often paddles an old whitewater kayak across the Bay from Oakland to San Francisco. He's made the trip about 100 times -- and says it's empowering.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It makes a big difference, especially at the end of the day when you look up at the bridge or you look at BART, if there's delays or it's not running, and you just get on the water, and you're going to get across probably before most folks who are in cars,\" Linaweaver said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_102259\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 600px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/07/1655-SF-South-Beach-Marina-Launch3-web.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-102259\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/07/1655-SF-South-Beach-Marina-Launch3-web.jpg\" alt=\"Stephen Linaweaver paddles out from the South Beach Marina in SF after work. (Photo by Dan Suyeyasu of Oakland.)\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Stephen Linaweaver paddles out from the South Beach Marina in SF after work. (Photo by Dan Suyeyasu of Oakland)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>San Francisco Green Party member John-Marc Chandonia was inspired by \u003ca href=\"http://blog.sfgate.com/parenting/2011/05/19/the-birth-of-bart-photos-from-the-1960s-and-70s/\">photos of San Franciscans walking and biking through BART's Transbay Tube in the late '60s\u003c/a>, a few years before trains started surging through the tunnel. He jokingly tweeted that BART should reopen the tube to pedestrians during the strike.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Probably it would not be completely safe because there's not a railing, for example, and they'd also have to turn off the third rail,\" Chandonia said. \"But it would be nice if it were possible today.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So, not very plausible. ... But Linaweaver is looking for paddling companions, and he'll likely be on the water early tomorrow morning, weather permitting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Car-sharing companies win big\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It's becoming clear that some of the big winners of the BART strike are car-sharing companies. \u003ca href=\"http://www.side.cr/\">Sidecar\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"http://www.lyft.me/\">Lyft\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://rtr.avego.com/rtr-desktop-web/\">Avego\u003c/a> began promoting their mobile apps and reaching out to drivers in their networks over the weekend.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nick Allen, co-founder of Sidecar, said he saw a 50 percent increase in ridership on Monday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We see rides across the bridge and down in the Peninsula every day, and we’re seeing increased usage of that type because of the BART strike,” Allen told KQED's Peter Jon Shuler.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To get drivers to participate, Sidecar offered extra incentives such as waiving its usual 20 percent of the take and allowing drivers to keep 100 percent. Lyft also waived its surcharge.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Oakland City and East Bay Parks\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, Oakland city employees are back at work today after their one-day strike. But union officials say they could walk out again. Negotiations are scheduled to begin on Friday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One Oakland parking enforcement officer crossed picket lines yesterday, though, according to the \u003ca href=\"http://www.insidebayarea.com/breaking-news/ci_23578167/oakland-meter-maid-crosses-picket-line-tickets-unsuspecting\" target=\"_blank\">Oakland Tribune\u003c/a>. The worker, driving a city-issued car, was spotted ticketing cars in the vicinity of Broadway and 40th Street. He refused to give his name to a reporter and said that he got paid well and didn't support the strike. All of the citations will be automatically dismissed, the city announced this afternoon.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>East Bay residents will be happy to know that East Bay Regional Parks will be open on the Fourth of July. Cliff Rocha, president of Local 2428 of AFSCME, which represents employees of the parks, said workers and managers have reached an agreement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update 11:30 a.m. \u003c/strong>Not sure this picture needs much explanation, but that's the Golden Gate Bridge Toll Plaza -- in case you couldn't immediately identify which toll plaza that was. The big rig got stuck around 8:45 a.m. and was pulled out by 11:30 a.m. It blocked at least three lanes of traffic at one point.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_102235\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 620px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-102235\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/07/Big-Rig-Stuck07_02_13-e1372790603320.jpg\" alt=\"(Photo courtesy Golden Gate Bridge District via Bay City News)\" width=\"620\" height=\"465\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">(Photo courtesy Golden Gate Bridge District via Bay City News)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update 9:00 a.m.\u003c/strong> KQED's Matt Williams reports lines at the Jack London Square Ferry Terminal are much longer Tuesday morning than on the first day of the BART strike.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_102232\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/07/transitoption-640.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-102232\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/07/transitoption-640.jpg\" alt=\" An Alameda-Contra Costa (AC) Transit worker monitors the capacity of an AC Transit bus on July 2, 2013 in Oakland, California. (Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)\" width=\"640\" height=\"432\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">An AC Transit worker monitors the capacity of a bus on July 2 in Oakland. (Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>KQED's Andrew Stelzer spoke with ferry commuters Dominic Young and Jessie Groat.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I live in Jack London Square, so I'm pretty fortunate that I can leave my apartment and still get right to work,\" Young said. \"But I woke up early today thinking I'd catch the 7:30, and I missed the cut by five people, and now I'm probably pushed back about a 45-minute wait. So, I'm a little frustrated, but I'm new to the Bay Area. ... Taken BART every day for a few months. Guess I really take it for granted.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_102233\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/07/ferryline-640.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-102233\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/07/ferryline-640.jpg\" alt=\"Commuters wait in line at the the Jack London Square Ferry Terminal in Oakland on July 2, 2013. (Andrew Stelzer/KQED)\" width=\"640\" height=\"383\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Commuters wait in line at the the Jack London Square Ferry Terminal in Oakland on July 2, 2013. (Andrew Stelzer/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\"Thank God for the ferries,\" Groat said. \"This has at least put a positive thing on a very dismal situation. I think it's unfortunate that the BART workers take it out on the backs of the AC Transit workers, the ferry workers. I know they’re getting their way, and these guys are here doing the job and picking up the pieces. So, unfortunate situation. It's time to come to the table and get it done.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At BART's Millbrae station, commuter Carey Dare complained it was not quite clear where he was supposed to go to catch a bus to SFO. \"My biggest complaint is that SamTrans didn't tell anyone about this stop,\" Dare said. \"I had to find out about it from the SFO stop -- the SFO website.\"\u003c!--more-->\u003c/p>\n\u003chr>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Original post:\u003c/strong> Commuters, if you liked the commute mess yesterday, you're going to love the chaos today.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_102181\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 300px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/07/casualcarpool-web.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-102181\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/07/casualcarpool-web-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"More people are carpooling during the BART strike than normal. At the North Berkeley BART station, between 8-12 cars waited on July 1, 2013 to pick up carpoolers and take them to the Financial District of San Francisco. (Deborah Svoboda/KQED)\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">More people are carpooling during the BART strike than normal. At the North Berkeley BART station, between 8-12 cars waited on July 1, 2013 to pick up carpoolers and take them to the Financial District of San Francisco. (Deborah Svoboda/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>It's not clear how many people are telecommuting, how many people are starting their July Fourth holiday earlier, or how many people may have decided this whole living-in-the-Bay-Area thing isn't for them and have taken to the mountains or retired into Buddhist monasteries.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But we do know there are lots and lots of people out on the roads who wish they had a BART train to ride (or that some of the other people on the road were on BART). Before sunrise this morning, the Bay Bridge metering lights were turned on -- a good 40 minutes earlier than usual -- and early commute traffic immediately backed up on all the approaches.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Our personal view of the experience: One staffer who took the casual carpool from North Berkeley BART was rolling by 6:14 a.m. and exiting on the Fremont Street ramp on the San Francisco side of the bridge by 6:32. That's better than usual. But another staffer drove solo from the Grand Avenue area near downtown Oakland. He left at 5:45 a.m. and, stuck in the backup on the east side of the Bay Bridge Toll Plaza, it took until a little after 7 to get across the bridge.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The really bad news in all this if you're already sick of our BART-less commute purgatory: No one involved in the strike is talking yet. Although a state mediator said yesterday that he and Gov. Jerry Brown \"expect\" BART management and its two striking unions to resume negotiations, there's no word yet on when that will happen.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>***\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[\u003ca href=\"//storify.com/kqednews/bart-strike-day-two\" target=\"_blank\">View the story \"BART Strike Day Two \" on Storify\u003c/a>]\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The California labor secretary urged both sides to talk, and has sent in two new mediators, Anita I. Martinez, chair of the Public Employment Relations Board, and Loretta van der Pol, chief of the State Mediation and Conciliation Service.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>State officials aren't the only ones concerned about ending the strike.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Bay Area Council, a business advocacy group, said late yesterday the strike could have a lasting impact on the Bay Area’s economy. The council’s economic institute estimates the strike is costing the Bay Area $73 million per day in lost wages.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s a lot of money to be lost from an economy that’s just coming back,” Bay Area Council President and CEO Jim Wunderman said. “This is going to have an impact. It will impact peoples’ wages. It’s going to impact tax revenues. This is serious stuff. This isn’t small.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The last BART strike in 1997 lasted 6 days.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!--more-->\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Tuesday traffic worsens\u003cstrong>\u003c/strong>\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_102313\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-102313\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/07/almetria1-2.jpg\" alt=\"Line at the interim Transbay Terminal. (Almetria Vaba/KQED)\" width=\"640\" height=\"384\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Line at the interim Transbay Terminal. (Almetria Vaba/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Tuesday has been a mess, with \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgate.com/news/article/BART-talks-to-restart-as-commute-tightens-4642262.php\" target=\"_blank\">traffic snarling\u003c/a> the Bay Bridge before 6 a.m. Golden Gate Ferries between Larkspur and San Francisco \u003ca href=\"http://goldengate.org/bart/july2013.php\" target=\"_blank\">carried twice as many passengers\u003c/a> Tuesday morning as Monday morning.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The eye test suggests things are about the same today, with maybe a bit more traffic,” AC Transit spokesman Clarence Johnson said late Tuesday afternoon. “Certainly there’s a feeling that because this is a holiday week, people may have had regularly scheduled vacations they took, so there’s the fear that the number of commuters could grow substantially in the coming days.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>We want you (to tell us about your commute)\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you've been following the BART strike and thinking to yourself that your commute is really newsworthy, now is your chance. KQED wants to hear your stories about a quirky or especially cumbersome commute during the BART strike. Call us at 415-553-8455. We might share your story on the air.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Waiting for the boat\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With BART workers on strike, thousands of people in the Bay Area have turned to ferries to cross the bay. This morning it took KQED's reporter Andrew Stelzer more than three minutes to bike from the beginning to the end of the queue at Oakland'd Jack London ferry terminal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ciframe src=\"//www.youtube.com/embed/nkk4TA2cTrg?list=UU0FISFbEaHFc5ccrIgkZ3mg\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\">\u003c/iframe>\u003cbr>\n\u003c!--more-->\u003cbr>\n\u003cstrong>Confusion at SFO\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What's worse than jetlag? Flying into a transit strike.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The BART strike is causing some confusion for travelers flying into San Francisco International. The airport is providing free shuttle service to the Millbrae CalTrain station, but finding the shuttle can be challenging.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Joe Quinn from New York says he just arrived to visit friends in San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"[I] Kept stopping at information station [after] information station to find out where I had to go,\" he said. \"Probably been walking around for about twenty minutes or so. There's no real signage or anything telling you where to go or where things are located.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Quinn said his friends sent him text messages that BART was down.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, many other travellers said they didn't know anything about the strike until they reached the BART entrance and found it closed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mike and Laura Cartner just arrived from Maryland for the their 20th anniversary: \"There was nothing to tell us it was closed before we got here.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To be fair, a recorded voice periodically announces BART is closed and tells passengers to go to an information booth for help. But it's easy to miss in the din of the airport.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Best commute?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>KQED's Alex Emslie spoke with a man locally known as having the \u003ca href=\"http://archive.oaklandlocal.com/blogs/2010/09/best-commute-ever\">best commute ever\u003c/a>. Stephen Linaweaver often paddles an old whitewater kayak across the Bay from Oakland to San Francisco. He's made the trip about 100 times -- and says it's empowering.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It makes a big difference, especially at the end of the day when you look up at the bridge or you look at BART, if there's delays or it's not running, and you just get on the water, and you're going to get across probably before most folks who are in cars,\" Linaweaver said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_102259\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 600px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/07/1655-SF-South-Beach-Marina-Launch3-web.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-102259\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/07/1655-SF-South-Beach-Marina-Launch3-web.jpg\" alt=\"Stephen Linaweaver paddles out from the South Beach Marina in SF after work. 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But Linaweaver is looking for paddling companions, and he'll likely be on the water early tomorrow morning, weather permitting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Car-sharing companies win big\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It's becoming clear that some of the big winners of the BART strike are car-sharing companies. \u003ca href=\"http://www.side.cr/\">Sidecar\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"http://www.lyft.me/\">Lyft\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://rtr.avego.com/rtr-desktop-web/\">Avego\u003c/a> began promoting their mobile apps and reaching out to drivers in their networks over the weekend.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nick Allen, co-founder of Sidecar, said he saw a 50 percent increase in ridership on Monday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We see rides across the bridge and down in the Peninsula every day, and we’re seeing increased usage of that type because of the BART strike,” Allen told KQED's Peter Jon Shuler.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To get drivers to participate, Sidecar offered extra incentives such as waiving its usual 20 percent of the take and allowing drivers to keep 100 percent. Lyft also waived its surcharge.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Oakland City and East Bay Parks\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, Oakland city employees are back at work today after their one-day strike. But union officials say they could walk out again. Negotiations are scheduled to begin on Friday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One Oakland parking enforcement officer crossed picket lines yesterday, though, according to the \u003ca href=\"http://www.insidebayarea.com/breaking-news/ci_23578167/oakland-meter-maid-crosses-picket-line-tickets-unsuspecting\" target=\"_blank\">Oakland Tribune\u003c/a>. The worker, driving a city-issued car, was spotted ticketing cars in the vicinity of Broadway and 40th Street. He refused to give his name to a reporter and said that he got paid well and didn't support the strike. All of the citations will be automatically dismissed, the city announced this afternoon.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>East Bay residents will be happy to know that East Bay Regional Parks will be open on the Fourth of July. Cliff Rocha, president of Local 2428 of AFSCME, which represents employees of the parks, said workers and managers have reached an agreement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update 11:30 a.m. \u003c/strong>Not sure this picture needs much explanation, but that's the Golden Gate Bridge Toll Plaza -- in case you couldn't immediately identify which toll plaza that was. The big rig got stuck around 8:45 a.m. and was pulled out by 11:30 a.m. It blocked at least three lanes of traffic at one point.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_102235\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 620px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-102235\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/07/Big-Rig-Stuck07_02_13-e1372790603320.jpg\" alt=\"(Photo courtesy Golden Gate Bridge District via Bay City News)\" width=\"620\" height=\"465\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">(Photo courtesy Golden Gate Bridge District via Bay City News)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update 9:00 a.m.\u003c/strong> KQED's Matt Williams reports lines at the Jack London Square Ferry Terminal are much longer Tuesday morning than on the first day of the BART strike.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_102232\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/07/transitoption-640.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-102232\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/07/transitoption-640.jpg\" alt=\" An Alameda-Contra Costa (AC) Transit worker monitors the capacity of an AC Transit bus on July 2, 2013 in Oakland, California. (Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)\" width=\"640\" height=\"432\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">An AC Transit worker monitors the capacity of a bus on July 2 in Oakland. (Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>KQED's Andrew Stelzer spoke with ferry commuters Dominic Young and Jessie Groat.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I live in Jack London Square, so I'm pretty fortunate that I can leave my apartment and still get right to work,\" Young said. \"But I woke up early today thinking I'd catch the 7:30, and I missed the cut by five people, and now I'm probably pushed back about a 45-minute wait. So, I'm a little frustrated, but I'm new to the Bay Area. ... Taken BART every day for a few months. Guess I really take it for granted.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_102233\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/07/ferryline-640.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-102233\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/07/ferryline-640.jpg\" alt=\"Commuters wait in line at the the Jack London Square Ferry Terminal in Oakland on July 2, 2013. (Andrew Stelzer/KQED)\" width=\"640\" height=\"383\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Commuters wait in line at the the Jack London Square Ferry Terminal in Oakland on July 2, 2013. (Andrew Stelzer/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\"Thank God for the ferries,\" Groat said. \"This has at least put a positive thing on a very dismal situation. I think it's unfortunate that the BART workers take it out on the backs of the AC Transit workers, the ferry workers. I know they’re getting their way, and these guys are here doing the job and picking up the pieces. So, unfortunate situation. It's time to come to the table and get it done.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At BART's Millbrae station, commuter Carey Dare complained it was not quite clear where he was supposed to go to catch a bus to SFO. \"My biggest complaint is that SamTrans didn't tell anyone about this stop,\" Dare said. \"I had to find out about it from the SFO stop -- the SFO website.\"\u003c!--more-->\u003c/p>\n\u003chr>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Original post:\u003c/strong> Commuters, if you liked the commute mess yesterday, you're going to love the chaos today.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_102181\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 300px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/07/casualcarpool-web.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-102181\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/07/casualcarpool-web-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"More people are carpooling during the BART strike than normal. At the North Berkeley BART station, between 8-12 cars waited on July 1, 2013 to pick up carpoolers and take them to the Financial District of San Francisco. (Deborah Svoboda/KQED)\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">More people are carpooling during the BART strike than normal. At the North Berkeley BART station, between 8-12 cars waited on July 1, 2013 to pick up carpoolers and take them to the Financial District of San Francisco. (Deborah Svoboda/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>It's not clear how many people are telecommuting, how many people are starting their July Fourth holiday earlier, or how many people may have decided this whole living-in-the-Bay-Area thing isn't for them and have taken to the mountains or retired into Buddhist monasteries.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But we do know there are lots and lots of people out on the roads who wish they had a BART train to ride (or that some of the other people on the road were on BART). Before sunrise this morning, the Bay Bridge metering lights were turned on -- a good 40 minutes earlier than usual -- and early commute traffic immediately backed up on all the approaches.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Our personal view of the experience: One staffer who took the casual carpool from North Berkeley BART was rolling by 6:14 a.m. and exiting on the Fremont Street ramp on the San Francisco side of the bridge by 6:32. That's better than usual. But another staffer drove solo from the Grand Avenue area near downtown Oakland. He left at 5:45 a.m. and, stuck in the backup on the east side of the Bay Bridge Toll Plaza, it took until a little after 7 to get across the bridge.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The really bad news in all this if you're already sick of our BART-less commute purgatory: No one involved in the strike is talking yet. Although a state mediator said yesterday that he and Gov. Jerry Brown \"expect\" BART management and its two striking unions to resume negotiations, there's no word yet on when that will happen.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>***\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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City Hall will also stay open through the weekend for weddings.\" Get \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgov2.org/index.aspx?page=16\">marriage forms online\u003c/a> from City Hall.\u003c/p>\n\u003chr>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update 5:00 p.m.\u003c/strong> LOS ANGELES -- L.A. Mayor Villaraigosa is slated to marry Paul Katami and Jeff Zarrillo, the other two plaintiffs in the case, at L.A. City Hall at 6:15 p.m.\u003c/p>\n\u003chr>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update: 4:20 p.m.\u003c/strong> SACRAMENTO – At the direction of Governor Edmund G. 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Let the wedding bells ring! \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/search?q=%23Prop8&src=hash\">#Prop8\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>— Kamala Harris (@KamalaHarris) \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/KamalaHarris/statuses/350744403272413185\">June 28, 2013\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003chr>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update: 4:00 p.m.\u003c/strong> The first marriage licenses have been issued.\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\u003cp>Just in time for Pride Weekend, wedding season officially begins! 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"content": "\u003cp>http://www.kqed.org/.stream/anon/radio/tcrmag/2013/06/20130628etcrmag.mp3\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sandra Garcia has worked the Central Valley’s harvests since she emigrated from Mexico at age 16.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Just past dawn on a cold morning, the 57-year-old grandmother pulls her Dodge Caravan into a vineyard northeast of Delano to spend the day harvesting grapes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Now I don’t even want to eat them, after so many years of picking grapes,” Garcia says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Farm work is only one of Garcia’s jobs. On many afternoons, she goes from a full day in the fields to a meeting of Campesinas Unidas — the United Women Farmworkers of the San Joaquin Valley.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She founded the group almost 25 years ago to help farmworker women learn their rights and protect their health and safety. The idea took root when her mother, also a farmworker, died of cancer at age 47. 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But Garcia, as usual, took the opportunity to hand out a pamphlet on sexual harassment — offering phone numbers of pro bono lawyers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Garcia knows that these women, many of them undocumented immigrants, are reluctant to say they’ve been sexually harassed. But seasoned members, like Raquel Sanchez, show the way.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I had a problem just recently in the peach orchards, where the supervisor was following me around,” Sanchez told the group. “He was telling me about his life and how pretty I was. And I said to him, ‘You know what, I’m married. 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"content": "\u003cp>http://www.kqed.org/.stream/anon/radio/tcrmag/2013/06/20130628dtcrmag.mp3\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For Guadalupe Chavez, it all started with a missing paycheck back in 2006.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She was supposed to earn $245 for a week of picking pomegranates -- money the widowed mother of two needed to pay her bills. When she went to track down the check, a supervisor she'd never met before told her someone had it out in the fields. He told her to follow him there in her truck.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp> “So I followed him,” says Chavez in Spanish, recounting what happened next. “I followed him to parts of the field I didn’t recognize. It’s so easy to get lost out there.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She says he stopped in an isolated pistachio orchard, got out of his truck, approached her vehicle and demanded her underpants in exchange for her paycheck.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He said … ‘I’m the supervisor, I’m in charge here,’ ” says Chavez. “And I remembered that he had told me that he had a gun in the truck. And so when he said that, and he banged hard on the car with his hand, I thought, ‘He’s serious. If I don’t do what he says, he can kill me.’ ”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Then, Chavez says, the supervisor reached through her window and raped her with his fingers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He was hurting me,” she says. “Imagine, his fingers were all dirty with pesticides. I wanted him to stop and hoped that was all he wanted. I thought, ‘If he kills me, who will take care of my children?’ “\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After those long, frightening moments, he finally gave her the check. But then, she says, he demanded oral sex before letting her go.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“All I remember,” Chavez says, “is that I drove out of there really fast, too fast, because I wanted to get away.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Two days later, Chavez went to a rural legal aid office in Fresno about another missing check. Lawyers there said she seemed distraught, and they gently encouraged her in Spanish to tell them what was wrong. Finally, she broke into tears and described the rape. The attorneys urged her to go to the hospital, and she gave them the OK to call the police.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Absolutely, I believed her. Her story was consistent. It didn’t bounce from all over the place to all over the place,” says Kris Zuniga, then an officer with the Kings County Sheriff’s Department who investigated Chavez’s case. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Zuniga is now a sergeant with the police department in Avenal, a rural town southwest of Fresno. As a former farmworker himself, he says he understands why more undocumented women like Chavez don’t call the police:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“For one, they’re afraid they’re going to get deported,” Zuniga says. “Number two, word gets around to the other bosses in the valley that are also doing farm labor work. They’re going to say, ‘Don’t hire that person, don’t let them have a job because they’re going to report something if something happens.’ “They’ll never work out there again.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m sure it happens more than you probably know or obviously than it is reported,” Zuniga says. “My guess is the guys that are out there doing this, it’s not their first rodeo. They know exactly what they’re doing. They have the hammer over them. They have the power. They can give them a job and they can give them a check.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Zuniga also points out that most farmworker women don’t get a rape exam if they’re assaulted. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“And a week goes by,” he says, “two weeks goes by, three weeks goes by. You’ve lost that physical evidence, so now you’re down to a ‘he said, she said.’ And those are tough -- tough to prosecute.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The first stop for a victim often isn’t the police station. It’s more likely a place like Westside Family Preservation Services, a small domestic violence agency tucked into a run-down strip mall in the tiny farmworker town of Huron.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On a typical day, women constantly stream in from the fields after work, pulling down the brightly colored bandannas that protect their faces.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10141238\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 400px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/06/chavez22cropped.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/06/chavez22cropped-400x225.jpg\" alt=\"Chavez moved to Oregon's Willamette Valley to start anew after the case ended. She earned a U visa, which helped her get a full-time custodial job at a tortilla factory and buy the mobile home where she lives with her two teenage sons. (Grace Rubenstein/KQED)\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-10141238\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Chavez moved to Oregon's Willamette Valley to start anew after the case ended. She earned a U visa, which helped her get a full-time custodial job at a tortilla factory and buy the mobile home where she lives with her two teenage sons. (Grace Rubenstein/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Caseworker Amparo Yebra says sometimes the women will confide to her about sexual harassment or violence in the fields.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It takes time. They have to feel comfortable,” Yebra says. “They have to feel like they can trust that they’re going to be helped.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yebra says she literally holds a woman’s hand and walks with her into the police station to file a report.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But sometimes victims change their minds once they find out what’s involved in a criminal case.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That’s because of all the questions that they have to go over and over and over about your story,” Yebra explains. “Then they send her to another person. And then she has to again talk about the story. Now she has to go to court and again testify to the story. That’s very painful.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sandra Mendoza agrees. She’s the Mexican government’s consul for protection of Mexican citizens in the Central Valley, and she helps crime victims navigate the U.S. justice system.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"alignright\">\n\u003ch3>More in this series\u003c/h3>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\n\u003ca href=\"http://www.californiareport.org/archive/R201306280850/a\" target=\"_blank\">Farmworkers Face Rape -- And a System That Doesn't Aid Them\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\n\u003ca href=\"http://www.californiareport.org/archive/R201306281630/e\" target=\"_blank\">One Determined Farmworker Helps Others Confront Sexual Harassment in the Fields\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\n\u003ca href=\"http://www.californiareport.org/archive/R201307010850/a\" target=\"_blank\">ALRB Provides Unique Way to Resolve Disputes between Growers and Farmworkers\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>She says sometimes victims of sexual harassment in the fields prefer to come to confidential settlements with farm companies rather than face a jury trial.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It really depends on how far the victim wants to go,” she says. “You could take it to the court, send the perpetrator to jail, and set an example so that other supervisors think twice before doing this kind of thing. But a lot of times the victim wants to just wrap things up as fast as possible. And coming to an agreement with the company may do that: it’s confidential, no one else finds out about it from either the victim’s or the company’s point of view.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even when women do pursue a criminal case, the odds are long. District attorneys have to decide there’s enough evidence to prosecute -- and prove the case beyond a reasonable doubt.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kathy Ciuffini, assistant district attorney for Kings County, says it’s often a matter of ‘he said, she said.’ “If the defense is, ‘she consented,’ those cases are very, very difficult,” says Ciuffini, “because it’s a credibility match, basically.” \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the case of Guadalupe Chavez, Ciuffini decided there was strong enough evidence to prosecute. At the time, Ciuffini was the county’s sexual assault prosecutor. But this was her first farmworker case. And she says the language barrier can be a big hurdle for the jury.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If they’re hearing the victim’s story in their own language,” he says, “I think it’s easier for them to understand. If they’re hearing it through an interpreter, jurors can’t make that connection with the victim.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s hard to say whether that played a role in the outcome of Guadalupe Chavez’s case. The man she accused admitted sexual contact, but argued it was consensual. And the jury acquitted him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But even so, Chavez says she feels like she got some justice – because the man she accused of raping her had to face her in court.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It was worth it,” she says. “And I would do it again. Because at least now (the alleged perpetrator) might think twice about doing this to somebody else.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chavez was eventually able to qualify for a special “U visa” for crime victims, which has allowed her to gain legal status.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This series was reported in collaboration with Bernice Yeung of the Center for Investigative Reporting and the UC Berkeley Investigative Reporting Program. 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But then, she says, he demanded oral sex before letting her go.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“All I remember,” Chavez says, “is that I drove out of there really fast, too fast, because I wanted to get away.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Two days later, Chavez went to a rural legal aid office in Fresno about another missing check. Lawyers there said she seemed distraught, and they gently encouraged her in Spanish to tell them what was wrong. Finally, she broke into tears and described the rape. The attorneys urged her to go to the hospital, and she gave them the OK to call the police.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Absolutely, I believed her. Her story was consistent. It didn’t bounce from all over the place to all over the place,” says Kris Zuniga, then an officer with the Kings County Sheriff’s Department who investigated Chavez’s case. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Zuniga is now a sergeant with the police department in Avenal, a rural town southwest of Fresno. As a former farmworker himself, he says he understands why more undocumented women like Chavez don’t call the police:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“For one, they’re afraid they’re going to get deported,” Zuniga says. “Number two, word gets around to the other bosses in the valley that are also doing farm labor work. They’re going to say, ‘Don’t hire that person, don’t let them have a job because they’re going to report something if something happens.’ “They’ll never work out there again.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m sure it happens more than you probably know or obviously than it is reported,” Zuniga says. “My guess is the guys that are out there doing this, it’s not their first rodeo. They know exactly what they’re doing. They have the hammer over them. They have the power. They can give them a job and they can give them a check.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Zuniga also points out that most farmworker women don’t get a rape exam if they’re assaulted. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“And a week goes by,” he says, “two weeks goes by, three weeks goes by. You’ve lost that physical evidence, so now you’re down to a ‘he said, she said.’ And those are tough -- tough to prosecute.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The first stop for a victim often isn’t the police station. It’s more likely a place like Westside Family Preservation Services, a small domestic violence agency tucked into a run-down strip mall in the tiny farmworker town of Huron.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On a typical day, women constantly stream in from the fields after work, pulling down the brightly colored bandannas that protect their faces.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10141238\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 400px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/06/chavez22cropped.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/06/chavez22cropped-400x225.jpg\" alt=\"Chavez moved to Oregon's Willamette Valley to start anew after the case ended. She earned a U visa, which helped her get a full-time custodial job at a tortilla factory and buy the mobile home where she lives with her two teenage sons. 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They have to feel comfortable,” Yebra says. “They have to feel like they can trust that they’re going to be helped.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yebra says she literally holds a woman’s hand and walks with her into the police station to file a report.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But sometimes victims change their minds once they find out what’s involved in a criminal case.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That’s because of all the questions that they have to go over and over and over about your story,” Yebra explains. “Then they send her to another person. And then she has to again talk about the story. Now she has to go to court and again testify to the story. That’s very painful.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sandra Mendoza agrees. She’s the Mexican government’s consul for protection of Mexican citizens in the Central Valley, and she helps crime victims navigate the U.S. justice system.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"alignright\">\n\u003ch3>More in this series\u003c/h3>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\n\u003ca href=\"http://www.californiareport.org/archive/R201306280850/a\" target=\"_blank\">Farmworkers Face Rape -- And a System That Doesn't Aid Them\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\n\u003ca href=\"http://www.californiareport.org/archive/R201306281630/e\" target=\"_blank\">One Determined Farmworker Helps Others Confront Sexual Harassment in the Fields\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\n\u003ca href=\"http://www.californiareport.org/archive/R201307010850/a\" target=\"_blank\">ALRB Provides Unique Way to Resolve Disputes between Growers and Farmworkers\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>She says sometimes victims of sexual harassment in the fields prefer to come to confidential settlements with farm companies rather than face a jury trial.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It really depends on how far the victim wants to go,” she says. “You could take it to the court, send the perpetrator to jail, and set an example so that other supervisors think twice before doing this kind of thing. But a lot of times the victim wants to just wrap things up as fast as possible. And coming to an agreement with the company may do that: it’s confidential, no one else finds out about it from either the victim’s or the company’s point of view.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even when women do pursue a criminal case, the odds are long. District attorneys have to decide there’s enough evidence to prosecute -- and prove the case beyond a reasonable doubt.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kathy Ciuffini, assistant district attorney for Kings County, says it’s often a matter of ‘he said, she said.’ “If the defense is, ‘she consented,’ those cases are very, very difficult,” says Ciuffini, “because it’s a credibility match, basically.” \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the case of Guadalupe Chavez, Ciuffini decided there was strong enough evidence to prosecute. At the time, Ciuffini was the county’s sexual assault prosecutor. But this was her first farmworker case. And she says the language barrier can be a big hurdle for the jury.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If they’re hearing the victim’s story in their own language,” he says, “I think it’s easier for them to understand. If they’re hearing it through an interpreter, jurors can’t make that connection with the victim.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s hard to say whether that played a role in the outcome of Guadalupe Chavez’s case. The man she accused admitted sexual contact, but argued it was consensual. And the jury acquitted him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But even so, Chavez says she feels like she got some justice – because the man she accused of raping her had to face her in court.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It was worth it,” she says. “And I would do it again. 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This was an unusual case because we were focusing on whether the defendants -- the proponents of Prop. 8 -- had standing, and the real question is whether the proponents are adequate representatives of the voters of the state of California. And the Supreme Court said that they are not. The Supreme Court said that they are private persons. They are not the same as public state officials.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"If the Brown administration had appealed Judge Walker's decision to the 9th Circuit but said, 'By the way, we agree with the plaintiff, the challengers,' then the Supreme Court might have had a much harder time getting rid of this case. It might have had to reach the merits as it did in the Defense of Marriage Act case.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>When can same-sex marriages resume?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Supreme Court gave the 9th Circuit Court 25 days before the appeals court has to lift the stay, or hold, on Walker's ruling. This period comes directly from Supreme Court rules -- whenever the high court makes a ruling, the loser has 25 days to file for a rehearing before anything can happen.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California also has to decide how they are going to interpret the ruling. Gov. Jerry Brown ordered the Department of Public Health - which oversees marriage licenses, birth and death certificates, and other such documents - to advise the 58 counties of California to commence same-sex marriages as soon as the stay is lifted. Each county has to decide how they will prepare.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Attorney General Kamala Harris in a speech asked the court to lift the stay quickly: \"I am also calling on the 9th Circuit today to urge them in the strongest terms that they lift the stay and enforce the permanent injunction that Vaughn Walker outlined so that marriages can begin in California immediately.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!--more-->\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Will the legal struggle continue in California?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It's unclear whether the lawsuits will continue. Someone with standing would need to challenge Walker's ruling.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Amar believes that only a county clerk could do so: \"The only scenario I envision is if a county clerk who feels that he should not be bound by Judge Walker's order, and that he is not controllable by the governor, from some conservative county wants to refuse to issue marriage licenses and goes to court and says he shouldn't be governed by any of this because he never had his day in court, he wasn't in San Francisco defending Prop 8. That's the only kind of individual or party left I could see to stand in the way.\"\u003cbr>\n\u003c!--more-->\u003cbr>\nJane Schacter, professor of law at Stanford Law School, agrees that a county clerk refusal could restart the process: \"What I think will happen at that point, it would not surprise me if in some more culturally conservative part of the state, a local county clerk says, 'Well, I don’t think the governor had the power to order me to do this, I don’t think I’m bound by Judge Walker’s order, and therefore I’m not going to give you a license.' At that point, a same-sex couple may go to court to try to get that license and we may be off to the races with further litigation. Now, this really is a law professor’s dream. Will that be in state court? Will that be in federal court? Will it be about the scope of Walker’s decision? Will it be about the scope of the governor’s authority to decide what to do in these circumstances? Any number of questions, but I think there is no question that a lot of same-sex couples in short order are going to start marrying again in California.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Schacter also says that, while unlikely, Walker's opinion could be open to interpretation: \"The question is does Judge Walker's opinion, which was issued not in a class action but a lawsuit involving two couples, does it bind and apply statewide to other couples who are not part of the litigation? I think the governor will aggressively take the position that the state was a party in the case, the state is not contesting the decision of Judge Walker, therefore Prop. 8 is no longer enforceable. But it wouldn't surprise me if there's further litigation in this. It might be that the proponents of Prop. 8 will try to get some clarification of what the scope is of Judge Walker's opinion, and that won't come from Judge Walker because he's retired, but it will come from a different district judge. More likely I think Gov. Brown has ordered that marriage licenses be issued immediately. Once that starts happening, and I don't see a constraint to it because there was a stay in place pending resolution of the Supreme Court's appeal, and I think in short order that will be dissolved.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>John Eastman, a lawyer for the National Organization for Marriage, argues that the Supreme Court's ruling on DOMA should leave the decision up to the states: \"DOMA’s decision by the court, which specifically says that marriage policy is a core function of the states and that the federal government can’t interfere with that, strongly suggests that Judge Walker’s opinion in the Proposition 8 case, which is the last opinion standing in the Proposition 8 case right now, is invalid and has been superseded by that DOMA decision. Because what he did was strike down California’s effort that has its own merits policy, as reflected in Proposition 8. So I think we’ve got a lot of litigation still to go on whether that decision has to be overruled.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Amar says this is unlikely, though: \"A big question is whether anyone can validly raise this kind of argument in front of the 9th Circuit or the District Court. In light of today's Perry ruling, Prop. 8 proponents have no right to have the 9th Circuit take another look at what Judge Walker did, or at the scope of his remedy either. And the governor and attorney general certainly are not going to ask the 9th Circuit to do anything other than allow Judge Walker's order to go into effect. So unless the 9th Circuit decides, on its own, to re-examine Walker's ruling, or unless someone else, like a county clerk, successfully intervenes to defend Proposition 8, and both of these are unlikely. I think the same-sex marriage train will leave the station here in California pretty soon. I think, and have argued for years, that this is the right result. California will join the same-sex marriage column of states largely because of the decisions of accountable, elected officials - the governor and the attorney general - rather than because of 9th Circuit judges.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>So if same-sex marriage is legal, what happens to domestic partnerships?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This is also unclear. David Levine, professor of law at UC Hastings College of the Law, says: \"Presumably it will effectively change over to a marriage. When we had the interim period under the California Supreme Court, in effect that was what was going to happen. So, I think probably it’ll, in effect, automatically happen. But again that’s something that we’re going to have to get some direction. The state officials in Sacramento will be issuing some directives to the appropriate county officials. So, we’ll see. But I think, as a practical matter, it will turn into a marriage.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>What about federal areas, like immigration and taxes?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Supreme Court's ruling on the Defense of Marriage Act covers changes to federal issues, such as immigration and taxes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Supreme Court found that a portion of DOMA is unconstitutional because it violates equality principles by treating same-sex and heterosexual couples differently, even when states recognize same-sex couples and heterosexual couples the same, according to Amar.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While the Supreme Court can direct, it cannot legislate. Our experts agreed that the details will probably have to be handled by the Obama administration. 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The Supreme Court said that they are private persons. They are not the same as public state officials.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"If the Brown administration had appealed Judge Walker's decision to the 9th Circuit but said, 'By the way, we agree with the plaintiff, the challengers,' then the Supreme Court might have had a much harder time getting rid of this case. It might have had to reach the merits as it did in the Defense of Marriage Act case.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>When can same-sex marriages resume?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Supreme Court gave the 9th Circuit Court 25 days before the appeals court has to lift the stay, or hold, on Walker's ruling. This period comes directly from Supreme Court rules -- whenever the high court makes a ruling, the loser has 25 days to file for a rehearing before anything can happen.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California also has to decide how they are going to interpret the ruling. Gov. 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"title": "Significant Victories For LGBT Rights in Prop 8, DOMA Rulings",
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"content": "\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_101284\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 300px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/06/prop8cityhall.jpg\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-101284\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/06/prop8cityhall-300x200.jpg\" alt=\" A couple celebrates at San Francisco City Hall upon hearing the U.S. Supreme Court has struck down the Defense of Marriage Act on June 26, 2013. (Photo by Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A couple celebrates upon hearing the U.S. Supreme Court has struck down the Defense of Marriage Act at City Hall June 26, 2013 in San Francisco, United States. (Photo by Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>WASHINGTON (AP and KQED) — In significant but incomplete victories for gay rights, the Supreme Court on Wednesday struck down a provision of a federal law denying federal benefits to married gay couples and cleared the way for the resumption of same-sex marriage in California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California Gov. Jerry Brown and Attorney Gen. Kamala Harris \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/06/25/proposition-8-supreme-court/#brown\">said the ruling on Proposition 8, the state’s same-sex marriage ban, would apply statewide\u003c/a>, a directive that Prop. 8 supporters may challenge in court.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The governor has directed the California Department of Public Health to advise county officials today that the district court’s injunction against Proposition 8 applies statewide and that all county clerks and county registrar/recorders must comply with it,” a statement from Brown’s office said.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/06/25/proposition-8-supreme-court/#updates\">\u003cstrong>Rolling Updates\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/06/26/what-the-doma-and-prop-8-rulings-mean-and-what-we-still-need-to-know/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u003cstrong>What happens next?\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/06/26/full-text-supreme-court-proposition-8-decision/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u003cstrong>Read the full Prop 8 decision\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/06/26/full-text-supreme-court-doma-decision/\">\u003cstrong>Read the full DOMA decision\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>The two 5-4 rulings by the Supreme Court came in its final session of the term. The decision on the Defense of Marriage Act wiped away part of a federal anti-gay marriage law that has kept legally married same-sex couples from receiving tax, health pension and other benefits.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Prop. 8 decision was a technical legal ruling that said nothing at all about same-sex marriage, but left in place a trial court’s declaration that California’s voter-approved same-sex marriage ban is unconstitutional. That outcome probably will allow state officials to order the resumption of same-sex weddings in the nation’s most populous state in about a month.The high court said nothing about the validity of gay marriage bans in California and roughly three dozen other states. \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/06/25/proposition-8-supreme-court/#ap\">Full AP story\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!--more-->\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca name=\"updates\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center\">\u003cstrong>ROLLING UPDATES (Refresh page for more)\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003cem>-Continuing Coverage on Morning Edition Begins at 3 AM PT Thursday\u003c/em>\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We are signing off of our live blogging for tonight. Thanks for visiting!\u003c/p>\n\u003chr>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003cem>-Party Atmosphere in the Castro\u003c/em>\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>KQED’s Bryan Goebel reports: “The excitement and emotion in this crowd of thousands of people is overwhelming. They started closing Castro Street between Market and 19\u003csup>th\u003c/sup> streets around 5 o’clock, and the street quickly began filling up with people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is going to be one of the largest marriage equality celebrations in California today. They’ve got two stages set up – one at Castro and Market, the other at 19\u003csup>th\u003c/sup> and Castro – where there are DJs; they’re going to be playing music, and a variety of speakers. I see longtime activist Steve Jones about to take the microphone on stage. I talked to the police and this official party goes until 9 o’clock, but they’re going to keep the streets open here until the party dies down.”\u003c/p>\n\u003chr>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003cem>-Bay Area Faith Leaders Speak Out\u003c/em>\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A coalition of faith leaders representing 80 congregations gathered at Grace Cathedral to celebrate today’s rulings. Mitch Mayne is with Mormons for Marriage Quality: “The decisions that we heard today actually align with our Mormon faith as recorded in modern scripture, in that we believe it is unjust for a particular set of religious beliefs to be used to deny the civil rights of others.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Rev. Deborah Johnson is with Inner Light Ministries in Santa Cruz: “We no more choose our sex than the color of our skin. And no one should be prevented from participating in their constitutional freedoms by being denied access to the basic things, like voter registration (and) a marriage license.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Rev. Kamal Hassan is with the Sojourner Presbyterian Church in Richmond:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I am glad that DOMA was struck down. It did not defend marriage. It exclusivized it, and defended heterosexual privilege. it divided our communities and denied the right for everyone who wants to be married in our state to the person who they love.”\u003c/p>\n\u003chr>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003cem>– Castro Prepares for Parties Tonight\u003c/em>\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>(BAY CITY NEWS) Members of the LGBT community and their supporters will gather in San Francisco’s Castro District this evening to celebrate the U.S. Supreme Court’s rulings on Prop. 8 and on the Defense of Marriage Act.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Starting around 5 p.m., Castro Street will be closed between Market and 19th streets, and 18th Street will be shut down between Collingwood and Hartford streets, according to the San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The rally starts at 6:30 p.m. with a “victory stage” at Market and Castro streets, with performances on a second stage at 19th and Castro streets, said Marriage Equality USA national media director Stuart Gaffney.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Our community has been on pins and needles for weeks and weeks now. We woke up this morning to wonderful news but I think a lot of us are still taking it in,” Gaffney said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Volunteers wearing fluorescent orange vests will help patrol the Castro neighborhood, but given the nature of the ruling, security should be easy, he said. Security is expected to be stepped up for Pride celebrations this weekend. Invitations to tonight’s rally have also been sent to San Francisco Mayor Ed Lee, members of the Board of Supervisors and other civic leaders, Gaffney said.\u003c/p>\n\u003chr>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003cem>– Same-Sex Marriage Searches Spike\u003c/em>\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yahoo and Google report that a number of search terms related to the Supreme Court rulings have been spiking. \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/06/26/101441/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">See which ones here\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003chr>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003cem>-Around the Web …\u003c/em>\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-prop-8-question-answer-20130626,0,1793695.story\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">How soon can we get married? Plus 5 other questions\u003c/a> (LA Times)\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://www.scotusblog.com/2013/06/a-home-run-but-not-a-grand-slam-for-gay-marriage-advocates-in-plain-english/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">A home run but not a grand slam for gay-marriage advocates: In Plain English\u003c/a> (SCOTUSblog)\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/post-partisan/wp/2013/06/26/why-i-hope-scalia-is-right-on-same-sex-marriage/\">Why I hope Scalia is right on same-sex marriage\u003c/a> (Ruth Marcus, Washington Post)\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://www.mercurynews.com/opinion/ci_23542953/mercury-news-editorial-prop-8-doma-fall-it\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Prop 8, DOMA fall: It is a great day\u003c/a> (SJ Mercury News)\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://www.matthewshepard.org/home/our-reaction-on-the-prop-8-and-doma-rulings-from-the-supreme-court\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Matthew Shepard’s mother on today’s rulings\u003c/a> (Matthew Shephard Foundation)\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Videos: \u003ca href=\"http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IYXqH2RskII&feature=player_embedded\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">San Francisco celebrates\u003c/a> (Mother Jones) and \u003ca href=\"http://www.nytimes.com/video/2013/06/26/us/politics/100000002304144/a-conservative-reacts-to-courts-rulings.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Heritage Foundation reacts\u003c/a> (NY Times)\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003chr>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003cem>-DOMA: What will change, what won’t\u003c/em>\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Where same-sex couples live or even where they were married will determine whether they will now receive federal benefits. Video from the NY Times …\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align: center\">\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http://graphics8.nytimes.com/bcvideo/1.0/iframe/embed.html?videoId=100000002303232&playerType=embed\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" width=\"480\" height=\"373\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/div>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003chr>\n\u003cp>–\u003cstrong>\u003cem>Obama on DOMA\u003c/em>\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The president said “I applaud the Supreme Court’s decision to strike down the Defense of Marriage Act. This was discrimination enshrined in law. It treated loving, committed gay and lesbian couples as a separate and lesser class of people. The Supreme Court has righted that wrong, and our country is better off for it. We are a people who declared that we are all created equal – and the love we commit to one another must be equal as well.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Obama said he had “directed the Attorney General to work with other members of my Cabinet to review all relevant federal statutes to ensure this decision, including its implications for Federal benefits and obligations, is implemented swiftly and smoothly.” \u003ca href=\"http://blog.sfgate.com/nov05election/2013/06/26/statement-from-president-obama-on-doma-decision/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Full text here\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, Obama today congratulated Prop. 8 plaintiffs Kris Perry and Sandy Stier, and also got invited to a gay wedding …\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http://www.hulu.com/embed.html?eid=tk_fapwm4hwmuem5gsmpmq&partner=yahoo&url=http%3a%2f%2fwww.hulu.com%2fwatch%2f505164\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" width=\"512\" height=\"288\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003chr>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003cem>-It ain’t over till it’s over, says Prop 8 lawyer\u003c/em>\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>John Eastman, professor with Chapman University’s School of Law and chair of the National Organization for Marriage, which filed a brief in support of Proposition 8, said on KQED Forum today that the court’s DOMA opinion would actually impact the Prop. 8 case in a way favorable to those who oppose same-sex marriage. His argument:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>DOMA’s decision by the court, which specifically says that marriage policy is a core function of the states and that the federal government can’t interfere with that, strongly suggests that Judge Walker’s opinion in the Proposition 8 case, which is the last opinion standing in the Proposition 8 case right now, is invalid and has been superseded by that DOMA decision.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Because what he did was strike down California’s effort that has its own merits policy, as reflected in Proposition 8. So I think we’ve got a lot of litigation still to go on whether that decision has to be overruled …\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>We asked Vik Amar, one of SCOTUSblog’s legal analysts, what he thought of Eastman’s argument. Amar said that regardless of whether this was a valid legal avenue open to Prop. 8 supporters, it was unlikely to gain any traction. From Amar …\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>A big question is whether anyone can validly raise this kind of argument in front of the 9th Circuit or the District Court. In light of today’s Perry ruling, Prop. 8 proponents have no right to have the Ninth Circuit take another look at what Judge Walker did (or at the scope of his remedy either), and the governor and attorney general certainly are not going to ask the Ninth Circuit to do anything other than allow Judge Walker’s order to go into effect.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So unless the Ninth Circuit decides, on its own, to re-examine Walker’s ruling, or unless someone else (like a county clerk) successfully intervenes to defend Proposition 8 — and both of these are unlikely — I think the same-sex marriage train will leave the station here in California pretty soon.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003chr>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003cem>-Gay and lesbian California lawmakers react\u003c/em>\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I can stop checking on my state tax forms, ‘married.’ And then turn around and doing my federal tax form and feeling like I’m lying to the federal government when I check, ‘single.’”\u003cbr>\n-Assemblywoman Toni Atkins\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Full equality feels absolutely amazing, honey. I mean it is – I’m beside myself.”\u003cbr>\n-State Sen. Ricardo Lara\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“With 38 states still denying equal marriage rights, with not a single federal protection in housing, employment, public accommodation, there is a lot of work to do.\u003cbr>\n-State Sen. Mark Leno\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is the first time in my life that I’ve felt that the law fully recognized me as being equal to everyone else. I don’t know how much more personal you can get than the concept of truly being seen as equal in the eyes of the law.”\u003cbr>\n–Assembly Speaker John Perez\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And Perez on the question of county clerks possibly taking it upon themselves to deny marriage licenses to same-sex couples:\u003cstrong>\u003cbr>\n\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They’ll have hell to pay. Could I be clearer?”\u003c/p>\n\u003chr>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003cem>-Sacramento County prepares …\u003c/em>\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>From News10 Sacramento, how Sacramento County is preparing for same-sex marriage…\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align: center\">\u003cobject id=\"flashObj\" width=\"480\" height=\"270\" classid=\"d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" codebase=\"http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\">\u003cparam name=\"flashVars\" value=\"videoId=2509860222001&playerID=1684488551001&playerKey=AQ~~,AAAACC1lKhk~,ZvV6UsgbjjZzy5iAEyU8skbXMqWBZ-rJ&domain=embed&dynamicStreaming=true\">\u003cparam name=\"base\" value=\"http://admin.brightcove.com\">\u003cparam name=\"seamlesstabbing\" value=\"false\">\u003cparam name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\">\u003cparam name=\"swLiveConnect\" value=\"true\">\u003cparam name=\"allowScriptAccess\" value=\"always\">\u003cparam name=\"src\" value=\"http://c.brightcove.com/services/viewer/federated_f9?isVid=1&isUI=1\">\u003cparam name=\"flashvars\" value=\"videoId=2509860222001&playerID=1684488551001&playerKey=AQ~~,AAAACC1lKhk~,ZvV6UsgbjjZzy5iAEyU8skbXMqWBZ-rJ&domain=embed&dynamicStreaming=true\">\u003cparam name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\">\u003cparam name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\">\u003cparam name=\"swliveconnect\" value=\"true\">\u003cparam name=\"pluginspage\" value=\"http://www.macromedia.com/shockwave/download/index.cgi?P1_Prod_Version=ShockwaveFlash\">\u003cembed width=\"480\" height=\"270\" type=\"application/x-shockwave-flash\" src=\"http://c.brightcove.com/services/viewer/federated_f9?isVid=1&isUI=1\" flashvars=\"videoId=2509860222001&playerID=1684488551001&playerKey=AQ~~,AAAACC1lKhk~,ZvV6UsgbjjZzy5iAEyU8skbXMqWBZ-rJ&domain=embed&dynamicStreaming=true\" base=\"http://admin.brightcove.com\" seamlesstabbing=\"false\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" swliveconnect=\"true\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" pluginspage=\"http://www.macromedia.com/shockwave/download/index.cgi?P1_Prod_Version=ShockwaveFlash\" bgcolor=\"#FFFFFF\">\u003c/embed>\u003c/object>\u003c/div>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003chr>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003cem>-Kamala Harris: Prop. 8 supporters are ‘bystanders’\u003cbr>\n\u003c/em>\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California Attorney General Kamala Harrissaid today that …\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>… today’s decision “means those people who want to deny same-sex couples the benefits of equal protection and due process under the United States Constitution cannot do so simply because they don’t like the notion. The United States Supreme Court essentially declared today that they are bystanders. They are sitting in the sidelines. They can have their freedom of expression but they cannot deny Americans, they cannot deny citizens of this country equal protection and due process under the law.”\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>Harris said she gave the governor legal advice that the “58 counties of the state of California must abide by the ruling of Vaughn Walker from the District Court when the stay is lifted and must commence marriage in California.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Harris also said she was calling on the 9th Circuit today to urge them on the strongest terms that they lift the stay and enforce the permanent injunction that Vaughn Walker outlined so that marriages can begin in California immediately …\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here is the full press conference …\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fapi.soundcloud.com%2Ftracks%2F98578487\" frameborder=\"no\" scrolling=\"no\" width=\"100%\" height=\"166\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003chr>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003cem>-Tax filing for LGBT couples\u003c/em>\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The California Report’s Rachael Myrow explored in 2011 how tax filing for same-sex couples is \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2011/06/29/for-same-sex-couples-tax-filing-is-particularlycomplicated/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">particularly complicated\u003c/a> in light of DOMA. “You have to file as married at the state level and single at the federal level,” Santa Clara University Law Professor \u003ca href=\"http://law.scu.edu/faculty/profile/cain-patricia.cfm\">Patricia Cain\u003c/a> said. “So you have to file two single returns at the federal level. Then you have to fill out a mock joint return at the federal level in order to determine what your state liability is.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In May, Cain wrote a blog post called “\u003ca href=\"http://law.scu.edu/same-sex-tax/predicting-life-after-windsor/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Predicting Life After Windsor,\u003c/a>” in which she talked about a panel discussion on what might happen if the Supreme Court struck down the provision of DOMA that denies same-sex couples the ability to file a joint tax return.\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>[One participant] stressed the fact that we will need guidance from the IRS in the event the Supreme Court strikes down DOMA. We are all hopeful that the Taxpayer Advocate will press IRS personnel to provide that guidance as quickly as possible…\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>About the only sure prediction we had was that the decision would be handed down in very late June. But the discussion among the tax professionals in the room indicated that there are many that believe it is likely that the Court will strike DOMA down.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That, of course, is only the first step in figuring out how the IRS will tax all same-sex couples in the future.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003chr>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003cem>-Report from city hall\u003c/em>\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Spencer Michels, PBS NewsHour’s Bay Area correspondent, reports from San Francisco City Hall\u003c/em>:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>Six-thirty a.m. San Francisco’s center of government doesn’t even open until eight, but somehow hundreds of same-sex marriage supporters, dozens of reporters and cameramen, and every city official you can think of managed to crawl out of bed and show up in the ornate rotunda.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Same-sex marriage and being against Proposition 8 are the mothers’ milk of politics in this town. And it was clear that nobody in politics wanted to be left out, even though there was a chance they would be disappointed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mayor Ed Lee said something and so did supervisors David Campos and Scott Wiener. But it was Lt. Gov. Gavin Newsom, the man who defied state law and authorized same-sex weddings in 2004 when he was mayor, who got the biggest hand. By his side were former mayor Willie Brown, City Attorney Dennis Herrera and every other city supervisor and state legislator who could squeeze in.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After about an hour the whole celebration and political exercise wound down –it wasn’t even 9 a.m. — and the celebrants probably went back to bed, to get ready for more partying in the evening. Because this is San Francisco.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"//www.youtube.com/embed/QRwEIfZf4Ro\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003chr>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003cem>-Same-sex binational couples celebrate\u003c/em>\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>KQED’s Mina Kim reports today’s ruling striking down a central provision of the Defense of Marriage Act means many of them will now be able to stay together. Under DOMA, gay Americans have not been able to sponsor their foreign partners for a spousal visa.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For Orinda couple Brian Willingham and Alfonso Garcia, that’s meant living under the threat of Garcia’s deportation for years. Garcia says he burst into tears when the high court ruling came down.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I look at my husband and I was just like, oh my god we finally did it we’re married, we’re recognized by the government.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The justices decision today effectively clears the way for gay partners to apply for green cards. Garcia says he will travel to Mexico to see his grandmother’s resting place. She died while he was barred from traveling outside the US.\u003c/p>\n\u003chr>\n\u003cp>–\u003cstrong>\u003cem>When will 9th Circuit act?\u003c/em>\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Supreme Court has remanded the Proposition 8 case back to the 9th Circuit with instructions for that court to dismiss the appeal by the same-sex marriage ban’s backers, which would effectively reinstate Judge Vaughn Walker’s ruling that Prop. 8 is unconstitutional. Until the 9th acts on that, no same-sex marriages in California will occur.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So when will that happen?\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\u003cp>9th Circuit spokesman leaves small window of quick lifting of \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/search?q=%23Prop8&src=hash\">#Prop8\u003c/a> stay. Would not be normal. Likely would happen fast after 25 days tho\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>— Matthias Gafni (@mgafni) \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/mgafni/statuses/349958714540822528\">June 26, 2013\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003chr>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003cem>-KQED Forum discussion\u003c/em>\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>KQED’s Forum program today spent an hour parsing the details of the Supreme Court’s decisions, including surprises in how the justices voted, what questions remain unanswered and whether same-sex couples can take the time to plan a big wedding.\u003c/p>\n\u003chr>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003cem>-Twitter has another field day …\u003c/em>\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\u003cp>The Supreme Court has made it harder for blacks to vote but easier for gays to marry! So Jason Collins must be confused as hell right now!\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>— DL Hughley (@RealDLHughley) \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/RealDLHughley/statuses/349909075892514817\">June 26, 2013\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cblockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\u003cp>Gay or straight, now all that’s stopping you from marriage is your personality and that broken part of you that drives people away!\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>— Kevin Seccia (@kevinseccia) \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/kevinseccia/statuses/349903635330760704\">June 26, 2013\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/news/gay-marriage-twitter-reaction-scotus-doma-prop8-155316576.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">More here\u003c/a>…\u003c/p>\n\u003chr>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003cem>-No same-sex marriages just quite yet … \u003c/em>\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>From the \u003ca href=\"http://gov.ca.gov/docs/Letter_to_County_Officials.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">California Dept. of Public Health’s letter to California county clerks and county recorders\u003c/a>:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>The effect of the district court’s injunction is that same-sex couples will once again be allowed to marry in California. But they will not be able to marry until the Ninth Circuit issues a further order dissolving a stay of the injunction that has been in place throughout the appeal process. We do not know when the Ninth Circuit will issue this order, but it could take a month or more. County clerks and recorders should not issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples until this order is issued.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003chr>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003cem>-Who is left to fight for Prop. 8?\u003c/em> \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>KQED’s Joshua Johnson this morning talked to UC Davis law professor Vik Amar about the Prop. 8 decision. From that conversation …\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>JOSHUA JOHNSON: I wonder who you think is left to fight for Prop 8? Will the fight continue in California?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>VIK AMAR: The only scenario I envision is if a county clerk who feels that he should not be bound by Judge Walker’s order and that he is not controllable by the governor, from some conservative county, wants to refuse to issue marriage licenses and goes to court and says he shouldn’t be governed by any of this because he never had his day in court, he wasn’t in San Francisco defending Prop 8. That’s the only kind of individual or party left I could see to stand in the way\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003chr>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003cem>-Did the court “punt” on Prop. 8?\u003c/em>\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>JOSHUA JOHNSON: I’m looking at a lot of coverage of Prop 8 from various news outlets and I keep seeing the word ‘punt’ come up. Is this just a punt?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>VIK AMAR: I’m not sure I would characterize it as a punt, if by punt we mean something negative. But I think that the court did not want to wade into this thicket any more than it had to. It wants to see how various states are going to evolve in this arena. Remember, this is a very fast-moving landscape. Just since the oral argument in the Perry case and the Windsor case a few months ago, three additional states have recognized same-sex marriage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Right now there are 38 states that don’t and 12 that do, although California will soon be in the column that does, but five, 10 years from now it could be 30 to 20 the other way and the court would rather decide the ultimate question against a backdrop that’s more stable than the one we have now.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003chr>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003cem>-What is “standing”?\u003c/em>\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Prop. 8 decision turned on the question of “standing.” Again from Vik Amar …\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>VIK AMAR: Standing means you’re a party that belongs in court and that we can trust that you’ll represent the interests of one position in a way that allows the court to reach the merits. For example, if I voted against Prop. 8, and I thought it was a bad deal, I couldn’t sue to challenge Prop. 8 even if it offended me … Standing makes sure we have the right parties in the case so that the courts aren’t shooting their mouths off and making new rulings just in abstract context.\u003cstrong>\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>JOSHUA JOHNSON: It’s also a way, as I understand it, to make sure that the people who are arguing are arguing from a position of actually being injured or harmed in some way and not just, “oh I don’t like the way this turned out.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>VIK AMAR:\u003cstrong> \u003c/strong> Yes, and usually we focus on whether the plaintiffs have standing. This was an unusual case because we were focusing on whether … the proponents of Prop 8 had standing, and the real question is whether the proponents are adequate representatives of the voters of the State of California and the Supreme Court said that they are not. The Supreme Court said that they are private persons, they are not the same as public state officials.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://www.law.cornell.edu/wex/standing\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">More on standing here\u003c/a>, from Cornell Law.\u003c/p>\n\u003chr>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003cem>-Boxer, Newsom like it; NOM Doesn’t\u003c/em>\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>From Gavin Newsom, who was ahead of the curve on this issue when he \u003ca href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/San_Francisco_2004_same-sex_weddings\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">told San Francisco’s county clerks in 2004 to issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples\u003c/a>, said this today …\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>A city that has prided itself on being on the leading and cutting edge. Not a city of dreamers but a city of doers, of innovators and entrepreneurs. It’s a special place and I think everyone of you understands a core principle that defines our values in this city and in this state and for that matter, at our best, this nation: and that is we don’t just tolerate diversity, we celebrate our diversity each and every day.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>And here’s the statement from California’s junior senator …\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>Today my spirits are soaring because the Supreme Court reaffirmed the promise of America by rejecting two blatantly unconstitutional measures that discriminated against millions of our families.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I was proud to have voted against the Defense of Marriage Act in 1996, and it is so heartening to see that the federal government will now treat all marriages equally.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Because of the Court’s ruling on Proposition 8, millions of Californians will be able to marry the person they love – with all the rights and responsibilities that go along with it.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>And from the \u003ca href=\"http://www.nomblog.com/35831\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">National Organization for Marriage\u003c/a>, which filed a brief in support of Prop. 8 in the case …\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv id=\"stcpDiv\">\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>In a miscarriage of justice the US Supreme Court has refused to consider the decision of a single federal court judge to overturn the perfectly legal action of over 7 million California voters who passed Proposition 8 defining marriage as the union of one man and one woman,” said Brian Brown, NOM’s president. “The Supreme Court’s holding that proponents of an initiative had no legal right to appeal ignores California law and rewards corrupt politicians for abandoning their duty to defend traditional marriage laws. It’s imperative that Congress continue to preserve the right of states to protect true marriage and refuse to recognize faux marriages performed in other states or countries.” \u003ca href=\"http://www.nomblog.com/35831\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Full statement\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003c/div>\n\u003chr>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003cem>-AFER celebrates\u003c/em>\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The American Foundation for Equal Rights, which sponsored the challenge to Prop. 8, held a press conference today.\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align: center\">\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http://www.youtube.com/embed/fwPtP7pf5v0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"420\" height=\"315\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/div>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003chr>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003cem>-Brown, Harris: Ruling applies statewide\u003c/em>\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>From a statement from Brown’s office …\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>In light of the decision, I have directed the California Department of Public Health to advise the state’s counties that they must begin issuing marriage licenses to same-sex couples in California as soon as the Ninth Circuit confirms the stay is lifted,” said Governor Brown.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The effect of today’s U.S. Supreme Court ruling is that the 2010 federal district court’s decision that Proposition 8 is unconstitutional is left intact and the law cannot be enforced.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In response, the Governor has directed the California Department of Public Health to advise county officials today that the district court’s injunction against Proposition 8 applies statewide and that all county clerks and county registrar/recorders must comply with it. However, same-sex Californians will not be able to marry until the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals confirms the stay of the injunction, which has been in place throughout the appeals process, is lifted.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In preparation for this outcome, Governor Brown sought an opinion from California Attorney General Kamala D. Harris on whether the state, through the California Department of Public Health, can advise county clerks and registrar/recorders that they are bound by the federal district court’s ruling that Proposition 8 is unconstitutional.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Attorney General concluded that the California Department of Public Health “can and should” instruct county officials that they “must resume issuing marriage licenses to and recording the marriages of same-sex” couples. The Department will issue another letter to county officials as soon as the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals confirms the stay is lifted.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"http://gov.ca.gov/docs/AG_Letter.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Attorney General’s letter to Governor Brown can be found here\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003chr>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003cem>-Boies speaks\u003c/em>\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>David Boies, one of the lead attorneys for the plaintiffs, said this on the courthouse step …\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>We started out in this case. We said … we were going to prove that marriage was a fundamental right and the other side accepted that. We said … we were going to prove that depriving gay and lesbian citizens of the right to marry the person they loved seriously harmed them and seriously harmed the children they were raising and even the opponents agreed with that.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And third, we said that we were going to prove that allowing everyone to marry the person they loved regardless of sexual orientation did not, could not harm anyone. And not only did the opponents on cross-examination have to accept that, but today the United States Supreme Court said as much because they said the opponents have no concrete injury.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>\u003ca name=\"next\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>WHAT’S NEXT?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>KQED’s Scott Shafer reports that the Prop. 8, decision means that same-sex marriage will indeed be legal once more in California, but a question remains as to whether it will be statewide or not. (Update: Gov. Jerry Brown said today it would, and that all county clerks and county registrar/recorders in the state must comply with the district court’s injunction against Prop. 8.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There is likely to be more litigation by Prop. 8 supporters maintaining that for technical legal reasons the ruling should apply to a limited number of counties or even to only the two couples who were the plaintiffs in the lawsuit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Prop. 8 defenders now have 25 days to ask for a rehearing. So at the soonest, we’ll see marriage in mid-to-late July.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While many believed that a Prop. 8 ruling on standing would make same-sex marriage legal throughout California, others believed that it would apply only in the counties where the suits were filed (Alameda and Los Angeles), and in San Francisco, which intervened in the case. Because of these complications, most counties have said they will look to the state for direction.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Although county clerks are responsible for issuing marriage licenses in California, they will likely turn to the Department of Public Health Vital Records on how to proceed, said Cathy Darling Allen, president of the California State Association of Clerks and Election Officials and the clerk in Shasta County.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I believe we will receive some guidance,” Allen told KQED’s Scott Shafer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, a department spokesperson told Shafer that they will, in turn, look to the governor’s office for guidance. Evan Westrup, a spokesman for Gov. Jerry Brown, said the governor’s office wouldn’t deliberate on what guidance they will give until after the court’s ruling. “Lots of interesting scenarios, none of which we’d publicly comment or speculate on at this point,” Westrup said by email.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And some counties may challenge a statewide rule in any event. While same-sex marriages were legal in 2008, in the time between when the court struck down Prop. 22 and the passage of Prop. 8, several counties, including Kern, Siskiyou and Butte, refused to perform civil ceremonies, only issuing the licenses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to Allen, that resulted in many more couples from those counties rushing to Shasta County to have their ceremonies performed. Officials in Kern County have not said how they will proceed this time if Prop. 8 is struck down.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Interestingly, the technical challenges to performing same-sex marriages — i.e., changing the license forms and naming conventions to be gender-neutral — were all addressed in 2008 when about 18,000 same-sex couples were married before Prop. 8 passed, said Allen. That means this time, they’ll be “ready to go,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Officials have said there could be a 25-day waiting period before marriages resume, meaning the earliest that ceremonies could be performed would be mid-July. However, even this is uncertain. Most cities and counties are preparing to be ready to issue a flood of licenses on Day One, should same-sex marriage be legalized. According to \u003ca href=\"http://www.nbcbayarea.com/news/local/SF-Training-Volunteers-to-Administer-Marriage-Licenses-in-Preparation-for-Prop-8-Decision-211482311.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">NBC Bay Area\u003c/a>, San Francisco has even begun training volunteers to oversee impromptu weddings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>“We anticipate that it could be as much as 200 people who come down to City Hall,” said San Francisco County Administrator Naomi Kelly. “We just want to make sure that anyone who wants to get married on that day can.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To prepare, the city is training dozens of volunteers to become deputy clerks. The volunteers are made up of mostly city employees giving up time to learn everything from how to administer vows to inputting legal data.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>\u003ca name=\"ap\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Full AP story\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>WASHINGTON (AP) — In a major victory for gay rights, the Supreme Court on Wednesday struck down a provision of a federal law denying federal benefits to married gay couples and cleared the way for the resumption of same-sex marriage in California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The justices issued two 5-4 rulings in their final session of the term. One decision wiped away part of a federal anti-gay marriage law that has kept legally married same-sex couples from receiving tax, health and pension benefits.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The other was a technical legal ruling that said nothing at all about same-sex marriage, but left in place a trial court’s declaration that California’s Proposition 8 is unconstitutional. That outcome probably will allow state officials to order the resumption of same-sex weddings in the nation’s most populous state in about a month.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a sign that neither victory was complete, the high court said nothing about the validity of gay marriage bans in California and roughly three dozen other states. And a separate provision of the federal marriage law that allows a state to not recognize a same-sex union from elsewhere remains in place.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>President Barack Obama telephoned his congratulations to the plaintiffs in the California case from Air Force One en route to Africa.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The ruling in that case was not along ideological lines. Chief Justice John Roberts wrote the majority opinion, joined by Justices Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Stephen Breyer, Elena Kagan and Antonin Scalia.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We have no authority to decide this case on the merits, and neither did the 9th Circuit,” Roberts said, referring to the federal appeals court that also struck down Proposition 8.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the case involving the federal Defense of Marriage Act, Justice Anthony Kennedy wrote the majority opinion, joined by the court’s liberal justices.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Under DOMA, same-sex married couples have their lives burdened, by reason of government decree, in visible and public ways,” Kennedy said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“DOMA’s principal effect is to identify a subset of state-sanctioned marriages and make them unequal,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some in the crowd outside the court hugged and others jumped up and down just after 10 a.m. EDT Wednesday when the DOMA decision was announced. Many people were on their cell phones monitoring Twitter, news sites and blogs for word of the decision. And there were cheers as runners came down the steps with the decision in hand and turned them over to reporters who quickly flipped through the decisions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chants of “Thank you” and “USA” came from the crowd as plaintiffs in the cases descended the court’s marbled steps. Most of those in the crowd appeared to support gay marriage, although there was at least one man who held a sign promoting marriage as between a man and a woman.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kennedy was joined in the DOMA decision by the court’s four liberal justices.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chief Justice John Roberts, Justices Samuel Alito and Clarence Thomas, and Scalia dissented.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Same-sex marriage has been adopted by 12 states and the District of Columbia. Another 18,000 couples were married in California during a brief period when same-sex unions were legal there.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The outcome is clear for people who were married and live in states that allow same-sex marriage. They now are eligible for federal benefits.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The picture is more complicated for same-sex couples who traveled to another state to get married, or who have moved from a gay marriage state since being wed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Their eligibility depends on the benefits they are seeking. For instance, immigration law focuses on where people were married, not where they live. But eligibility for Social Security survivor benefits basically depends on where a couple is living when a spouse dies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The rulings came 10 years to the day after the court’s Lawrence v. Texas decision that struck down state bans on gay sex. In his dissent at the time, Scalia predicted the ruling would lead to same-sex marriage.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!--more-->\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca name=\"updates\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center\">\u003cstrong>ROLLING UPDATES (Refresh page for more)\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003cem>-Continuing Coverage on Morning Edition Begins at 3 AM PT Thursday\u003c/em>\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We are signing off of our live blogging for tonight. Thanks for visiting!\u003c/p>\n\u003chr>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003cem>-Party Atmosphere in the Castro\u003c/em>\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>KQED’s Bryan Goebel reports: “The excitement and emotion in this crowd of thousands of people is overwhelming. They started closing Castro Street between Market and 19\u003csup>th\u003c/sup> streets around 5 o’clock, and the street quickly began filling up with people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is going to be one of the largest marriage equality celebrations in California today. They’ve got two stages set up – one at Castro and Market, the other at 19\u003csup>th\u003c/sup> and Castro – where there are DJs; they’re going to be playing music, and a variety of speakers. I see longtime activist Steve Jones about to take the microphone on stage. I talked to the police and this official party goes until 9 o’clock, but they’re going to keep the streets open here until the party dies down.”\u003c/p>\n\u003chr>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003cem>-Bay Area Faith Leaders Speak Out\u003c/em>\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A coalition of faith leaders representing 80 congregations gathered at Grace Cathedral to celebrate today’s rulings. Mitch Mayne is with Mormons for Marriage Quality: “The decisions that we heard today actually align with our Mormon faith as recorded in modern scripture, in that we believe it is unjust for a particular set of religious beliefs to be used to deny the civil rights of others.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Rev. Deborah Johnson is with Inner Light Ministries in Santa Cruz: “We no more choose our sex than the color of our skin. And no one should be prevented from participating in their constitutional freedoms by being denied access to the basic things, like voter registration (and) a marriage license.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Rev. Kamal Hassan is with the Sojourner Presbyterian Church in Richmond:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I am glad that DOMA was struck down. It did not defend marriage. It exclusivized it, and defended heterosexual privilege. it divided our communities and denied the right for everyone who wants to be married in our state to the person who they love.”\u003c/p>\n\u003chr>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003cem>– Castro Prepares for Parties Tonight\u003c/em>\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>(BAY CITY NEWS) Members of the LGBT community and their supporters will gather in San Francisco’s Castro District this evening to celebrate the U.S. Supreme Court’s rulings on Prop. 8 and on the Defense of Marriage Act.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Starting around 5 p.m., Castro Street will be closed between Market and 19th streets, and 18th Street will be shut down between Collingwood and Hartford streets, according to the San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The rally starts at 6:30 p.m. with a “victory stage” at Market and Castro streets, with performances on a second stage at 19th and Castro streets, said Marriage Equality USA national media director Stuart Gaffney.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Our community has been on pins and needles for weeks and weeks now. We woke up this morning to wonderful news but I think a lot of us are still taking it in,” Gaffney said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Volunteers wearing fluorescent orange vests will help patrol the Castro neighborhood, but given the nature of the ruling, security should be easy, he said. Security is expected to be stepped up for Pride celebrations this weekend. Invitations to tonight’s rally have also been sent to San Francisco Mayor Ed Lee, members of the Board of Supervisors and other civic leaders, Gaffney said.\u003c/p>\n\u003chr>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003cem>– Same-Sex Marriage Searches Spike\u003c/em>\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yahoo and Google report that a number of search terms related to the Supreme Court rulings have been spiking. \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/06/26/101441/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">See which ones here\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003chr>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003cem>-Around the Web …\u003c/em>\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-prop-8-question-answer-20130626,0,1793695.story\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">How soon can we get married? Plus 5 other questions\u003c/a> (LA Times)\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://www.scotusblog.com/2013/06/a-home-run-but-not-a-grand-slam-for-gay-marriage-advocates-in-plain-english/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">A home run but not a grand slam for gay-marriage advocates: In Plain English\u003c/a> (SCOTUSblog)\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/post-partisan/wp/2013/06/26/why-i-hope-scalia-is-right-on-same-sex-marriage/\">Why I hope Scalia is right on same-sex marriage\u003c/a> (Ruth Marcus, Washington Post)\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://www.mercurynews.com/opinion/ci_23542953/mercury-news-editorial-prop-8-doma-fall-it\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Prop 8, DOMA fall: It is a great day\u003c/a> (SJ Mercury News)\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://www.matthewshepard.org/home/our-reaction-on-the-prop-8-and-doma-rulings-from-the-supreme-court\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Matthew Shepard’s mother on today’s rulings\u003c/a> (Matthew Shephard Foundation)\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Videos: \u003ca href=\"http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IYXqH2RskII&feature=player_embedded\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">San Francisco celebrates\u003c/a> (Mother Jones) and \u003ca href=\"http://www.nytimes.com/video/2013/06/26/us/politics/100000002304144/a-conservative-reacts-to-courts-rulings.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Heritage Foundation reacts\u003c/a> (NY Times)\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003chr>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003cem>-DOMA: What will change, what won’t\u003c/em>\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Where same-sex couples live or even where they were married will determine whether they will now receive federal benefits. Video from the NY Times …\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align: center\">\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http://graphics8.nytimes.com/bcvideo/1.0/iframe/embed.html?videoId=100000002303232&playerType=embed\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" width=\"480\" height=\"373\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/div>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003chr>\n\u003cp>–\u003cstrong>\u003cem>Obama on DOMA\u003c/em>\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The president said “I applaud the Supreme Court’s decision to strike down the Defense of Marriage Act. This was discrimination enshrined in law. It treated loving, committed gay and lesbian couples as a separate and lesser class of people. The Supreme Court has righted that wrong, and our country is better off for it. We are a people who declared that we are all created equal – and the love we commit to one another must be equal as well.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Obama said he had “directed the Attorney General to work with other members of my Cabinet to review all relevant federal statutes to ensure this decision, including its implications for Federal benefits and obligations, is implemented swiftly and smoothly.” \u003ca href=\"http://blog.sfgate.com/nov05election/2013/06/26/statement-from-president-obama-on-doma-decision/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Full text here\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, Obama today congratulated Prop. 8 plaintiffs Kris Perry and Sandy Stier, and also got invited to a gay wedding …\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http://www.hulu.com/embed.html?eid=tk_fapwm4hwmuem5gsmpmq&partner=yahoo&url=http%3a%2f%2fwww.hulu.com%2fwatch%2f505164\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" width=\"512\" height=\"288\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003chr>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003cem>-It ain’t over till it’s over, says Prop 8 lawyer\u003c/em>\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>John Eastman, professor with Chapman University’s School of Law and chair of the National Organization for Marriage, which filed a brief in support of Proposition 8, said on KQED Forum today that the court’s DOMA opinion would actually impact the Prop. 8 case in a way favorable to those who oppose same-sex marriage. His argument:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>DOMA’s decision by the court, which specifically says that marriage policy is a core function of the states and that the federal government can’t interfere with that, strongly suggests that Judge Walker’s opinion in the Proposition 8 case, which is the last opinion standing in the Proposition 8 case right now, is invalid and has been superseded by that DOMA decision.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Because what he did was strike down California’s effort that has its own merits policy, as reflected in Proposition 8. So I think we’ve got a lot of litigation still to go on whether that decision has to be overruled …\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>We asked Vik Amar, one of SCOTUSblog’s legal analysts, what he thought of Eastman’s argument. Amar said that regardless of whether this was a valid legal avenue open to Prop. 8 supporters, it was unlikely to gain any traction. From Amar …\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>A big question is whether anyone can validly raise this kind of argument in front of the 9th Circuit or the District Court. In light of today’s Perry ruling, Prop. 8 proponents have no right to have the Ninth Circuit take another look at what Judge Walker did (or at the scope of his remedy either), and the governor and attorney general certainly are not going to ask the Ninth Circuit to do anything other than allow Judge Walker’s order to go into effect.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So unless the Ninth Circuit decides, on its own, to re-examine Walker’s ruling, or unless someone else (like a county clerk) successfully intervenes to defend Proposition 8 — and both of these are unlikely — I think the same-sex marriage train will leave the station here in California pretty soon.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003chr>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003cem>-Gay and lesbian California lawmakers react\u003c/em>\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I can stop checking on my state tax forms, ‘married.’ And then turn around and doing my federal tax form and feeling like I’m lying to the federal government when I check, ‘single.’”\u003cbr>\n-Assemblywoman Toni Atkins\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Full equality feels absolutely amazing, honey. I mean it is – I’m beside myself.”\u003cbr>\n-State Sen. Ricardo Lara\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“With 38 states still denying equal marriage rights, with not a single federal protection in housing, employment, public accommodation, there is a lot of work to do.\u003cbr>\n-State Sen. Mark Leno\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is the first time in my life that I’ve felt that the law fully recognized me as being equal to everyone else. I don’t know how much more personal you can get than the concept of truly being seen as equal in the eyes of the law.”\u003cbr>\n–Assembly Speaker John Perez\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And Perez on the question of county clerks possibly taking it upon themselves to deny marriage licenses to same-sex couples:\u003cstrong>\u003cbr>\n\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They’ll have hell to pay. Could I be clearer?”\u003c/p>\n\u003chr>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003cem>-Sacramento County prepares …\u003c/em>\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>From News10 Sacramento, how Sacramento County is preparing for same-sex marriage…\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align: center\">\u003cobject id=\"flashObj\" width=\"480\" height=\"270\" classid=\"d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" codebase=\"http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\">\u003cparam name=\"flashVars\" value=\"videoId=2509860222001&playerID=1684488551001&playerKey=AQ~~,AAAACC1lKhk~,ZvV6UsgbjjZzy5iAEyU8skbXMqWBZ-rJ&domain=embed&dynamicStreaming=true\">\u003cparam name=\"base\" value=\"http://admin.brightcove.com\">\u003cparam name=\"seamlesstabbing\" value=\"false\">\u003cparam name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\">\u003cparam name=\"swLiveConnect\" value=\"true\">\u003cparam name=\"allowScriptAccess\" value=\"always\">\u003cparam name=\"src\" value=\"http://c.brightcove.com/services/viewer/federated_f9?isVid=1&isUI=1\">\u003cparam name=\"flashvars\" value=\"videoId=2509860222001&playerID=1684488551001&playerKey=AQ~~,AAAACC1lKhk~,ZvV6UsgbjjZzy5iAEyU8skbXMqWBZ-rJ&domain=embed&dynamicStreaming=true\">\u003cparam name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\">\u003cparam name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\">\u003cparam name=\"swliveconnect\" value=\"true\">\u003cparam name=\"pluginspage\" value=\"http://www.macromedia.com/shockwave/download/index.cgi?P1_Prod_Version=ShockwaveFlash\">\u003cembed width=\"480\" height=\"270\" type=\"application/x-shockwave-flash\" src=\"http://c.brightcove.com/services/viewer/federated_f9?isVid=1&isUI=1\" flashvars=\"videoId=2509860222001&playerID=1684488551001&playerKey=AQ~~,AAAACC1lKhk~,ZvV6UsgbjjZzy5iAEyU8skbXMqWBZ-rJ&domain=embed&dynamicStreaming=true\" base=\"http://admin.brightcove.com\" seamlesstabbing=\"false\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" swliveconnect=\"true\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" pluginspage=\"http://www.macromedia.com/shockwave/download/index.cgi?P1_Prod_Version=ShockwaveFlash\" bgcolor=\"#FFFFFF\">\u003c/embed>\u003c/object>\u003c/div>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003chr>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003cem>-Kamala Harris: Prop. 8 supporters are ‘bystanders’\u003cbr>\n\u003c/em>\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California Attorney General Kamala Harrissaid today that …\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>… today’s decision “means those people who want to deny same-sex couples the benefits of equal protection and due process under the United States Constitution cannot do so simply because they don’t like the notion. The United States Supreme Court essentially declared today that they are bystanders. They are sitting in the sidelines. They can have their freedom of expression but they cannot deny Americans, they cannot deny citizens of this country equal protection and due process under the law.”\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>Harris said she gave the governor legal advice that the “58 counties of the state of California must abide by the ruling of Vaughn Walker from the District Court when the stay is lifted and must commence marriage in California.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Harris also said she was calling on the 9th Circuit today to urge them on the strongest terms that they lift the stay and enforce the permanent injunction that Vaughn Walker outlined so that marriages can begin in California immediately …\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here is the full press conference …\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fapi.soundcloud.com%2Ftracks%2F98578487\" frameborder=\"no\" scrolling=\"no\" width=\"100%\" height=\"166\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003chr>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003cem>-Tax filing for LGBT couples\u003c/em>\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The California Report’s Rachael Myrow explored in 2011 how tax filing for same-sex couples is \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2011/06/29/for-same-sex-couples-tax-filing-is-particularlycomplicated/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">particularly complicated\u003c/a> in light of DOMA. “You have to file as married at the state level and single at the federal level,” Santa Clara University Law Professor \u003ca href=\"http://law.scu.edu/faculty/profile/cain-patricia.cfm\">Patricia Cain\u003c/a> said. “So you have to file two single returns at the federal level. Then you have to fill out a mock joint return at the federal level in order to determine what your state liability is.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In May, Cain wrote a blog post called “\u003ca href=\"http://law.scu.edu/same-sex-tax/predicting-life-after-windsor/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Predicting Life After Windsor,\u003c/a>” in which she talked about a panel discussion on what might happen if the Supreme Court struck down the provision of DOMA that denies same-sex couples the ability to file a joint tax return.\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>[One participant] stressed the fact that we will need guidance from the IRS in the event the Supreme Court strikes down DOMA. We are all hopeful that the Taxpayer Advocate will press IRS personnel to provide that guidance as quickly as possible…\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>About the only sure prediction we had was that the decision would be handed down in very late June. But the discussion among the tax professionals in the room indicated that there are many that believe it is likely that the Court will strike DOMA down.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That, of course, is only the first step in figuring out how the IRS will tax all same-sex couples in the future.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003chr>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003cem>-Report from city hall\u003c/em>\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Spencer Michels, PBS NewsHour’s Bay Area correspondent, reports from San Francisco City Hall\u003c/em>:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>Six-thirty a.m. San Francisco’s center of government doesn’t even open until eight, but somehow hundreds of same-sex marriage supporters, dozens of reporters and cameramen, and every city official you can think of managed to crawl out of bed and show up in the ornate rotunda.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Same-sex marriage and being against Proposition 8 are the mothers’ milk of politics in this town. And it was clear that nobody in politics wanted to be left out, even though there was a chance they would be disappointed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mayor Ed Lee said something and so did supervisors David Campos and Scott Wiener. But it was Lt. Gov. Gavin Newsom, the man who defied state law and authorized same-sex weddings in 2004 when he was mayor, who got the biggest hand. By his side were former mayor Willie Brown, City Attorney Dennis Herrera and every other city supervisor and state legislator who could squeeze in.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After about an hour the whole celebration and political exercise wound down –it wasn’t even 9 a.m. — and the celebrants probably went back to bed, to get ready for more partying in the evening. Because this is San Francisco.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"//www.youtube.com/embed/QRwEIfZf4Ro\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003chr>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003cem>-Same-sex binational couples celebrate\u003c/em>\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>KQED’s Mina Kim reports today’s ruling striking down a central provision of the Defense of Marriage Act means many of them will now be able to stay together. Under DOMA, gay Americans have not been able to sponsor their foreign partners for a spousal visa.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For Orinda couple Brian Willingham and Alfonso Garcia, that’s meant living under the threat of Garcia’s deportation for years. Garcia says he burst into tears when the high court ruling came down.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I look at my husband and I was just like, oh my god we finally did it we’re married, we’re recognized by the government.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The justices decision today effectively clears the way for gay partners to apply for green cards. Garcia says he will travel to Mexico to see his grandmother’s resting place. She died while he was barred from traveling outside the US.\u003c/p>\n\u003chr>\n\u003cp>–\u003cstrong>\u003cem>When will 9th Circuit act?\u003c/em>\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Supreme Court has remanded the Proposition 8 case back to the 9th Circuit with instructions for that court to dismiss the appeal by the same-sex marriage ban’s backers, which would effectively reinstate Judge Vaughn Walker’s ruling that Prop. 8 is unconstitutional. Until the 9th acts on that, no same-sex marriages in California will occur.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So when will that happen?\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\u003cp>9th Circuit spokesman leaves small window of quick lifting of \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/search?q=%23Prop8&src=hash\">#Prop8\u003c/a> stay. Would not be normal. Likely would happen fast after 25 days tho\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>— Matthias Gafni (@mgafni) \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/mgafni/statuses/349958714540822528\">June 26, 2013\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003chr>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003cem>-KQED Forum discussion\u003c/em>\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>KQED’s Forum program today spent an hour parsing the details of the Supreme Court’s decisions, including surprises in how the justices voted, what questions remain unanswered and whether same-sex couples can take the time to plan a big wedding.\u003c/p>\n\u003chr>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003cem>-Twitter has another field day …\u003c/em>\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\u003cp>The Supreme Court has made it harder for blacks to vote but easier for gays to marry! So Jason Collins must be confused as hell right now!\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>— DL Hughley (@RealDLHughley) \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/RealDLHughley/statuses/349909075892514817\">June 26, 2013\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cblockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\u003cp>Gay or straight, now all that’s stopping you from marriage is your personality and that broken part of you that drives people away!\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>— Kevin Seccia (@kevinseccia) \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/kevinseccia/statuses/349903635330760704\">June 26, 2013\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/news/gay-marriage-twitter-reaction-scotus-doma-prop8-155316576.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">More here\u003c/a>…\u003c/p>\n\u003chr>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003cem>-No same-sex marriages just quite yet … \u003c/em>\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>From the \u003ca href=\"http://gov.ca.gov/docs/Letter_to_County_Officials.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">California Dept. of Public Health’s letter to California county clerks and county recorders\u003c/a>:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>The effect of the district court’s injunction is that same-sex couples will once again be allowed to marry in California. But they will not be able to marry until the Ninth Circuit issues a further order dissolving a stay of the injunction that has been in place throughout the appeal process. We do not know when the Ninth Circuit will issue this order, but it could take a month or more. County clerks and recorders should not issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples until this order is issued.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003chr>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003cem>-Who is left to fight for Prop. 8?\u003c/em> \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>KQED’s Joshua Johnson this morning talked to UC Davis law professor Vik Amar about the Prop. 8 decision. From that conversation …\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>JOSHUA JOHNSON: I wonder who you think is left to fight for Prop 8? Will the fight continue in California?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>VIK AMAR: The only scenario I envision is if a county clerk who feels that he should not be bound by Judge Walker’s order and that he is not controllable by the governor, from some conservative county, wants to refuse to issue marriage licenses and goes to court and says he shouldn’t be governed by any of this because he never had his day in court, he wasn’t in San Francisco defending Prop 8. That’s the only kind of individual or party left I could see to stand in the way\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003chr>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003cem>-Did the court “punt” on Prop. 8?\u003c/em>\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>JOSHUA JOHNSON: I’m looking at a lot of coverage of Prop 8 from various news outlets and I keep seeing the word ‘punt’ come up. Is this just a punt?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>VIK AMAR: I’m not sure I would characterize it as a punt, if by punt we mean something negative. But I think that the court did not want to wade into this thicket any more than it had to. It wants to see how various states are going to evolve in this arena. Remember, this is a very fast-moving landscape. Just since the oral argument in the Perry case and the Windsor case a few months ago, three additional states have recognized same-sex marriage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Right now there are 38 states that don’t and 12 that do, although California will soon be in the column that does, but five, 10 years from now it could be 30 to 20 the other way and the court would rather decide the ultimate question against a backdrop that’s more stable than the one we have now.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003chr>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003cem>-What is “standing”?\u003c/em>\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Prop. 8 decision turned on the question of “standing.” Again from Vik Amar …\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>VIK AMAR: Standing means you’re a party that belongs in court and that we can trust that you’ll represent the interests of one position in a way that allows the court to reach the merits. For example, if I voted against Prop. 8, and I thought it was a bad deal, I couldn’t sue to challenge Prop. 8 even if it offended me … Standing makes sure we have the right parties in the case so that the courts aren’t shooting their mouths off and making new rulings just in abstract context.\u003cstrong>\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>JOSHUA JOHNSON: It’s also a way, as I understand it, to make sure that the people who are arguing are arguing from a position of actually being injured or harmed in some way and not just, “oh I don’t like the way this turned out.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>VIK AMAR:\u003cstrong> \u003c/strong> Yes, and usually we focus on whether the plaintiffs have standing. This was an unusual case because we were focusing on whether … the proponents of Prop 8 had standing, and the real question is whether the proponents are adequate representatives of the voters of the State of California and the Supreme Court said that they are not. The Supreme Court said that they are private persons, they are not the same as public state officials.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://www.law.cornell.edu/wex/standing\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">More on standing here\u003c/a>, from Cornell Law.\u003c/p>\n\u003chr>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003cem>-Boxer, Newsom like it; NOM Doesn’t\u003c/em>\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>From Gavin Newsom, who was ahead of the curve on this issue when he \u003ca href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/San_Francisco_2004_same-sex_weddings\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">told San Francisco’s county clerks in 2004 to issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples\u003c/a>, said this today …\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>A city that has prided itself on being on the leading and cutting edge. Not a city of dreamers but a city of doers, of innovators and entrepreneurs. It’s a special place and I think everyone of you understands a core principle that defines our values in this city and in this state and for that matter, at our best, this nation: and that is we don’t just tolerate diversity, we celebrate our diversity each and every day.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>And here’s the statement from California’s junior senator …\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>Today my spirits are soaring because the Supreme Court reaffirmed the promise of America by rejecting two blatantly unconstitutional measures that discriminated against millions of our families.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I was proud to have voted against the Defense of Marriage Act in 1996, and it is so heartening to see that the federal government will now treat all marriages equally.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Because of the Court’s ruling on Proposition 8, millions of Californians will be able to marry the person they love – with all the rights and responsibilities that go along with it.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>And from the \u003ca href=\"http://www.nomblog.com/35831\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">National Organization for Marriage\u003c/a>, which filed a brief in support of Prop. 8 in the case …\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv id=\"stcpDiv\">\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>In a miscarriage of justice the US Supreme Court has refused to consider the decision of a single federal court judge to overturn the perfectly legal action of over 7 million California voters who passed Proposition 8 defining marriage as the union of one man and one woman,” said Brian Brown, NOM’s president. “The Supreme Court’s holding that proponents of an initiative had no legal right to appeal ignores California law and rewards corrupt politicians for abandoning their duty to defend traditional marriage laws. 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