Date: 	Fri, 10 Dec 1999 07:31:38 -1000
From: Mia H H Lam <mial@hawaii.edu>
Subject: Baehr case "moot" (fwd)


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Date: Thu, 9 Dec 1999 23:28:42 -1000
From: Marriage Project Hawaii <marriageprojecthi@msn.com>
Subject: Baehr case "moot"


      Today, Dec. 9, the Hawaii Supreme Court finally ruled in the Baehr
 case, against the three same sex couples.  In the view of the court, the
 case had been made moot by constitutional amendment passed last November.

       As the local media put it, same sex marriage is dead in Hawaii.
 However, the court left open the equal protection aspects of their
 earlier decisions.  The lawyer for the couples in the Baehr case, Dan
 Foley, predicts hundreds of lawsuits to chip away at each individual
 right of marriage one by one.

With best regards,

Tom Ramsey
Treasurer, Marriage Project Hawaii