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Letters

Aug. 17, 2010

Who Would Have Imagined?

Stephen F. Rohde of Rohde & Victoroff responds to criticism of Katherine Dramer's analysis of the Proposition 8 decision.

Stephen F. Rohde

Email: rohdevictr@aol.com

Stephen is a retired civil liberties lawyer and contributor to the Los Angeles Review of Books, is author of American Words for Freedom and Freedom of Assembly.

Who would have imagined that when Professor Katherine Darmer, Chapman University Law School, wrote such a thoughtful article entitled "Will of the People, Irrelevant Under Federal Constitution," (August 10) analyzing U.S. District Judge Vaughn Walker's comprehensive 136-page opinion striking down Proposition 8, it would trigger such a mean-spirited letter from Nathaniel J. Friedman. ("A Certain Irony," August 12).

Without citing a single flaw in either Walker's opinion...

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