Redeeming the Dream: the Case for Marriage Equality
| Publication year | 2014 |
| Pages | 92 |
| Citation | Vol. 43 No. 11 Pg. 92 |
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Redeeming the Dream: The Case for Marriage Equality
By John L. Livingston.
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Redeeming the Dream: The Case for Marriage Equality
by David Boies and Theodore B. Olson
310 pp.; $28.95
Penguin Group USA, 2014
375 Hudson St., New York, NY 10014
(212-366) 2000; www.penguin.com
Reviewed by John L. Livingston
John L. Livingston is a retired district court magistrate and civil litigator with thirty-five years of experience—john@livingstonlaw.net.
This is an excellent book. In fact, in the eyes of this former litigator, it is one of the best legal books ever written. The two authors came from different political parties and were even adversaries in the famous Bush v. Gore[1] election case. David Boies is a prominent trial attorney who has handled several high-profile cases, including Westmoreland v. CBS, Inc.[2] and United States v. Microsoft Corp.[3] Ted Olson was the Solicitor General for two Presidents and has argued more than sixty cases before the U.S. Supreme Court.
These two unlikely allies joined forces and raised a multimillion dollar war chest to defeat the California Constitutional Amendment known as Proposition 8. The authors reversed it as two lawyers would do—via litigation. They transformed their arguments into a civil rights case when many stated they had no chance.
The book does a good job of explaining how a civil rights case begins. The authors detail the reasons they became involved, how many other attorneys participated from their firms, and how to raise millions to hire expert witnesses and handle the other expenses of litigation. This is fascinating to a former trial attorney who never had clients who could even afford...
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