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May 12, 2011

Mary L. Dowell

Liebert Cassidy Whitmore Location: Los Angeles Practice type: Litigation Practice specialty: Labor and employment



It was as dramatic a set of facts as any trial lawyer could hope for: Days after voters passed Prop. 8, a college student named Jonathan Lopez got up before his class for a speech assignment, during which he quoted passages from the Bible and read aloud a definition of marriage as a union between a man and a woman.


His instructor interrupted him, calling him and anyone else who voted for Prop. 8 a "fascist bastard." He later wrote on Lopez's ev...

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