| Description |
1 online resource (streaming video file) (1 hr. 52 min. 37 sec.) ; 1 bytes |
| Summary |
The Case Against 8 comes to SBS ONE in an Australian television premiere as part of SBS's Mardi Gras season.This riveting documentary is a behind the scenes look at the events that led up to, and the aftermath of the groundbreaking Supreme Court case which overturned California's ban on same-sex marriage - Proposition 8.In November 2008, California passed Proposition 8, taking away the right of same-sex couples to marry. Just weeks after its passage, a plan was quietly brewing for a legal challenge to Prop 8 that would prove groundbreaking in scope and political significance The case would be the first federal challenge to a state's same-sex marriage ban, a strategy that at the time was unpopular even amongst LGBT leaders, because it was deemed "too soon" to go so boldly to the national level.The high-profile trial first made headlines with the unlikely pairing of Ted Olson and David Boies as the legal team at the helm - political foes who last faced off as opposing attorneys in Bush v. Gore. The film also follows the plaintiffs, two gay couples who find their families at the centre of the same-sex marriage controversy. Five years in the making, this is the story of how they took the first federal marriage equality lawsuit to the U.S. Supreme Court. (From the US) (Documentary) PG CCFollow the conversation on Twitter: #sbsdoco |
| Notes |
Closed captioning in English |
| Event |
Broadcast 2015-03-07 at 22:40:00 |
| Notes |
Classification: PG |
| Subject |
Civil rights.
|
|
Same-sex marriage -- Law and legislation.
|
|
Hollingsworth, Dennis, 1967-.
|
|
Perry, Kristin.
|
|
Proposition 8 (California : 2008)
|
|
United States.
|
| Form |
Streaming video
|
| Author |
Cotner, Ben, director
|
|
White, Ryan, director
|
|
