Amicus Briefs Filed in California Marriage Case

Equality California has the list of over FOUR HUNDRED organization, cities, counties, legislators and professors which filed amicus briefs on behalf of the appellant-plaintiffs in the same-marriage case currently pending before the 7-member California Supreme Court.

California NAACP
California State Conference of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People
NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc.
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc.
The Civil Rights Clinic at Howard University School of Law
MALDEF and Other Civil Rights Organizations
Mexican American Legal Defense and Education Fund
Aguilas
Bienestar Human Services
Coalition For Humane Immigrant Rights
La Raza Centro Legal
National Black Justice Coalition
National Lawyers Guild Of San Francisco
Zuna Institute
Asian Pacific Islander Groups
API Equality
API Equality – LA
API Equality – SF
Asian American Bar Association of the Greater Bay Area
Asian American Institute
Asian American Justice Center
Asian American Legal Defense & Education Fund
Asian American Psychological Association
Asian American Queer Women Activists
Asian and Pacific Islander Parents and Friends of Lesbians and Gays
Asian Communities for Reproductive Justice
Asian Law Alliance
Asian Law Caucus
Asian Pacific AIDS Intervention Team
Asian Pacific American Bar Association of Los Angeles County
Asian Pacific American Labor Alliance – Alameda
Asian Pacific American Labor Alliance – Los Angeles
Asian Pacific American Legal Center
Asian Pacific Americans for Progress – Los Angeles
Asian Pacific Bar Association of the Silicon Valley
Asian Pacific Islander Family Pride
Asian Pacific Islander Legal Outreach
Asian and Pacific Islander Lesbian, Bisexual Women and Transgender Network
Asian Pacific Islander Pride Council
Asian Pacific Islander Wellness Center
Asian Pacific Policy & Planning Council
Asian Pacific Women's Center
Asian Women's Shelter
Asian/Pacific Bar of California
Center for the Pacific Asian Family
Chinese for Affirmative Action
Chinese Progressive Association
Conference of Asian Pacific American Law Faculty
Filipinos for Affirmative Action
Gay Asian Pacific Alliance
Gay Asian Pacific Support Network
Institute for Leadership Development and Study of Pacific Asian North American Religion
Japanese American Bar Association of Greater Los Angeles
Japanese American Citizens League
Khmer Girls in Action
The Korean American Bar Association of Southern California
Korean Community Center of the East Bay
Korean Resource Center
Koreatown Immigrant Workers Alliance
My Sister's House
National Asian Pacific American Bar Association
National Asian Pacific American Law Student Association
National Asian Pacific American Women's Forum
National Korean American Service & Education Consortium
Orange County Asian & Pacific Islander Community Alliance
Pan Asian Lawyers of San Diego
Philippine American Bar Association
Satrang
South Asian American Leaders of Tomorrow
South Asian Bar Association of Northern California
South Asian Bar Association of San Diego
South Asian Bar Association of Southern California
South Asian Network
Southeast Asian Community Alliance
Southeast Asia Resource Action Center
Southern California Chinese Lawyers Associations
Vietnamese American Bar Association of Northern California
California Cities and Counties
Counsel: Stephen Lewis and Michael Jenkins, City of West Hollywood Legal Services Division
City of Los Angeles
City of San Diego
City of San Jose
City of Long Beach
City of Oakland
City of Santa Rosa
City of Berkeley
City of Santa Monica
City of Santa Cruz
City of Palm Springs
City of West Hollywood
City of Signal Hill
City of Sebastopol
City of Cotati
Town of Fairfax
City of Cloverdale
County of Santa Clara
County of San Mateo
County of Santa Cruz
County of Marin
Religious Organizations and Religiously Affiliated Individuals
Counsel: Raoul Kennedy; Elizabeth Harlan; Joren S. Bass; Philip Leider; Eric Alan Isaacson; Rev. Silvio Nardoni; Jo Ann Hoenninger
The United Church of Christ
The Union for Reform Judaism
Soka Gakkai International-USA
The Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations
The United Church of Religious Science
The Metropolitan Community Churches
The California Council of Churches
The Unitarian Universalist Legislative Ministry – California
The Reconciling Ministries Clergy of the California Nevada Conference of the United Methodist Church
California Faith for Equality
Pastor David Moss, Trinity United Methodist Church, Chico
Pastor Dr. Robert Goldstein, St. Francis Lutheran Church, San Francisco
Reverend Michael Schuenemeyer, United Church of Christ
Rabbi Arthur Waskow, The Shalom Center
Reverend Lindi Ramsden, Unitarian Universalist Legislative Ministry – CA
Rabbi Elliot Dorff, Jewish Conservative Movement
Reverend Kathy Huff, First Unitarian Church, Oakland
Pastor Jay K. Pierce, United Methodist Church of Merced
Pastor Scott Landis, Mission Hills United Church of Christ, San Diego
Pastor Brenda Evans, Christ Chapel of North Park, San Diego
Diana Elrod, Women's Division Leader in the Castro District of Soka Gakkai International-USA and Nancy Burns, Northern CaliforniaSoka Spirit Representative
Reverend Kevin Bucy, Midtown Church, United Church of Religious Science, San Diego
Reverend Diann Davisson, Religious Science Minister, Long Beach Memorial Hospital
William McKinney, PhD, Pacific School of Religion, Berkeley
Mary A. Tolbert, PhD, Pacific School of Religion, Berkeley
The Al-Fatiha Foundation
DignityUSA
Affirmation: Gay and Lesbian Mormons
Muslims for Progressive Values
American Psychological Association
Counsel: Jenner & Block LLP
American Psychological Association
California Psychological Association
American Psychiatric Association
National Association of Social Workers
National Association of Social Workers, California Chapter
American Psychoanalytic Society
American Psychoanalytic Society
Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights
Bar Associations
Los Angeles County Bar Association
Beverly Hills Bar Association
California Women Lawyers
San Francisco Trial Lawyers Association
Bar Association of San Francisco
Counsel: Amitai Swarts, Bar Association of San Francisco
Bar Association of San Francisco
Santa Clara County Bar Association
Counsel: McManis Faulkner & Morgan
Santa Clara County Bar Association
California Legislators
Senator Elaine Alquist
Senator Ellen Corbett
Senator Christine Kehoe
Senator Sheila Kuehl
Senator Carole Migden
Senator Darrell Steinberg
Assemblymember Noreen Evans
Assemblymember Loni Hancock
Assemblymember Jared W. Huffman
Assemblymember Dave Jones
Assemblymember John Laird
Assemblymember Mark Leno
Assemblymember Sally J. Lieber
Assemblymember Fiona Ma
Assemblymember Anthony J. Portantino
Assemblymember Lori Saldaña
Family Law Professors
Professor Scott Altman
Professor R. Richard Banks
Professor Grace Ganz Blumberg
Professor Janet Bowermaster
Professor Carol S. Bruch
Professor Jan C. Costello
Professor Barbara J. Cox
Professor Jay Folberg
Professor Deborah L. Forman
Professor Joan H. Hollinger
Professor Lisa Ikemoto
Professor Courtney G. Joslin
Professor Herma Hill Kay
Professor Jan Kosel
Professor Lawrence Levine
Professor Maya Manian
Professor Mary Ann Mason
Professor John Myers
Professor E.Gary Spitko
Professor Michael S. Wald
Professor D. Kelly Weisberg
Professor Lois Weithorn
Professor Michael Zamperini
International Human Rights Clinic, University of Toronto
Professor William Aceves
Professor Sujit Choudry
Professor Brenda Cossman
Professor Chai Feldblum
Professor Hari Osofsky
Professor Beth van Schaak
Professors Kathleen Sullivan and Pam Karlan
Professor Kathleen Sullivan
Professor Pam Karlan
Professor William Eskridge
Professor Jesse Choper
Professor Jesse Choper
Professor Joseph Grodin
Professor Joseph Grodin
Professor M.V. Lee Badgett & Senior Research Fellow Gary J. Gates
Professors M.V. Lee Badgett & Gary J. Gates
American Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers
American Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers
Northern California Chapter of the American Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers
California District of the American Academy of Pediatrics
Legal Momentum, ERA, California Women’s Law Center
Legal Momentum
Equal Rights Advocates
California Women’s Law Center
Southern Poverty Law Center
Southern Poverty Law Center
Equal Justice Society
Council for Secular Humanism and Center for Inquiry
Counsel: Ronald Lindsay, Center for Inquiry
Counsel for Secular Humanism
Center for Inquiry
Out and Equal
Levi Strauss
Anti-Defamation League & LGBT Community Centers
Anti-Defamation League
Los Angeles Gay and Lesbian Center
Sacramento Gay and Lesbian Center
San Diego Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Community Center
San Francisco LGBT Community Center
Billy DeFrank Center
The Gay and Lesbian Center of Greater Long Beach
Desert Pride Center
Lighthouse Community Pride Center
The Pacific Center
Stanislaus Pride Center
GLAD and The Equality Federation
Gay and Lesbian Advocates and Defenders
Equality Federation
National Gay and Lesbian Task Force
Counsel: Professor Suzanne Goldberg; Winston & Strawn LLP
National Gay and Lesbian Task Force
People for the American Way and LGBT Bar Associations and Civil Rights Organizations
Bay Area Lawyers for Individual Freedom
Children of Lesbians and Gays Everywhere
Disability Rights Education and Defense Fund
Family Pride
Human Rights Campaign
Human Rights Campaign Foundation
Legal Aid Society – Employment Law Center
Lesbian & Gay Lawyers Association of Los Angeles
Marriage Equality USA
National Gay and Lesbian Law Association
Parents and Friends of Lesbians and Gays
People for the American Way
Pride at Work
Sacramento Lawyers for the Equality of Gays and Lesbians
Tom Homann Law Association