Virginia Marriage Hearing: January 30th

Via press release from AFER:

On Thursday, January 30, 2014, the first hearing in the Virginia marriage equality case of Bostic v. Rainey will be held at the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia before Judge Arenda L. Wright Allen. The Bostic Plaintiffs’ lawsuit – first filed in July 2013 in Norfolk – argues that the Virginia Marriage Amendment is unconstitutional because it violates the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment of the United States Constitution, violates Due Process, and singles out gays and lesbians for a disfavored legal status, thereby creating a category of “second-class citizens." The American Foundation for Equal Rights (AFER), the sole sponsor of Bostic v. Rainey and the sole sponsor of the landmark federal constitutional challenge that eliminated California’s Proposition 8, will hold a press conference immediately following the hearing.

Olson and Boies are on the case!