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SDGLN: Brief Challenges Laws Discriminating Against Gay and Lesbian Veterans

WASHINGTON -- A law firm that is part of the challenge against California’s Proposition 8 today filed a “friend of the court” brief on behalf of a coalition of national veterans’ service organizations asking the court to strike down laws discriminating against gay and lesbian veterans.

Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP filed an amicus curiae brief in the U.S. Court of Appeals for Veterans Claims arguing that laws denying gay and lesbian veterans the spousal benefits they have earned, and which Congress has determined are necessary to support their families, “serve[] only to discriminate against gay and lesbian veterans” and “must be struck down as unconstitutional.”

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