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Chief U.S. District Judge Vaughn Walker opened the gates to hell this month when he ruled that strategists for Proposition 8 -- the 2008 ballot measure, passed by 52 percent of California voters, that limited marriage to a man and a woman -- must release internal campaign documents to measure opponents. Political activists of all stripes beware: Unless this ruling is overturned, the word will be out that sore losers who can't beat you at the ballot box and probably can't beat you in court can file a lawsuit designed to pry away proprietary information that they later can use...

Ervin Gonzalez told his fellow Florida Bar Board of Governors members: “If you frame the issue of what this is really about, we are all in favor of this request. The goal is putting children first. It’s not an endorsement of an alternative lifestyle.” In less than a half hour, on January 30 in Tallahassee, the Board of Governors voted unanimously (with one recusal) to allow the Family Law Section to file an amicus brief supporting 11th Circuit Judge Cindy Lederman’s November 25, 2008, decision to declare F.S. §63.042(3) unconstitutional and to allow homosexual foster parents to adopt two brothers...

Child killer Joel Steinberg has a cable-TV job waiting for him if he is released on parole next summer, his civil attorney said yesterday. Lawyer Darnay Hoffman, who is general counsel for the show, said he has arranged for Steinberg to work on "New York Confidential," a program planned for a leased-access Time Warner cable channel. Steinberg, 62, is serving 8 to 25 years for fatally striking his illegally adopted daughter, 6-year-old Lisa, in his Greenwich Village apartment in November 1987.