Date: Mon, 1 Feb 1999 13:23:09 -1000
From: ramsey@math.hawaii.edu (Tom Ramsey)
Subject: THE BAEHR CASE CONTINUES

	Plaintiffs' Supplemental Brief
	    Is Available On The Web

	After the Nov. 3 election, Hawaii's Supreme Court
asked the Baehr case litigants for supplemental briefs on the
prospective and retrospective effects of the new constitutional
amendment on the disposition of the lawsuit.  Charles Cooper
replied on behalf of the state just before Christmas.  On behalf
of the three couples asking for marriage licenses, Dan Foley and
Evan Wolfson responded Jan. 22.  Today, Feb. 1, Cooper is expected
to respond to the plaintiffs' brief.

	The Foley-Wolfson brief is now on the web at
   <http://members.tripod.com/~MPHAWAII/PlaintiffSB.html>
There are three other links to this page from
               <http://members.tripod.com/~MPHAWAII/>
from the Milestones "tab", the Legal "tab", and from the main
table on the Marriage Project Hawaii home page.

	The plaintiffs' brief argues that the new constitutional
amendment is prospective only, and that it does not address the
equal protection aspects of Kevin Chang's 1996 ruling in the Baehr
case.

					With Best Regards,

					Tom Ramsey
					Treasurer, Marriage
                                        Project Hawaii

P.S.  Donations to support the work of Dan Foley may be sent to
Marriage Project HI, PO Box 11690, Honolulu, HI 96828.