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mahatmakanejeeves

(56,897 posts)
Wed Apr 10, 2013, 08:38 AM Apr 2013

Cuccinelli denied sodomy ruling rehearing

Cuccinelli denied sodomy ruling rehearing

The Fourth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals in Richmond issued an order on Monday denying a petition by Virginia Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli asking the full 15-judge court to reconsider a decision by a three-judge panel last month that overturned the state’s sodomy law.

In an action that surprised some court observers, the order says none of the court’s judges requested a poll among themselves to determine which, if any of them, favored Cuccinelli’s request for an en banc rehearing of the sodomy case by the court’s 15 active judges and one senior judge.

Among the judges that chose not to approve a rehearing was Judge Albert Diaz, who wrote the dissent in the three-judge panel’s 2-1 ruling declaring Virginia’s “Crimes Against Nature” statute unconstitutional. The statute classifies sodomy between consenting adults, gay or straight, as a crime.

“It’s a pretty resounding rejection,” said Claire Gastanaga, executive director of the ACLU of Virginia, which filed a friend of the court brief urging the three-judge panel to overturn the state sodomy law. “There really wasn’t any interest in doing this at all by anybody.”
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Cuccinelli denied sodomy ruling rehearing (Original Post) mahatmakanejeeves Apr 2013 OP
Methinks thou doest protest too much, Cooch... catbyte Apr 2013 #1
i know this is serious business, but i cant help but think RedstDem Apr 2013 #2
I love waving goodbye to old centuries. MarcoS Apr 2013 #3
Coo-Coo Cuccinelli Denied Sodomy? tonekat Apr 2013 #4
 

RedstDem

(1,239 posts)
2. i know this is serious business, but i cant help but think
Wed Apr 10, 2013, 09:08 AM
Apr 2013

this guy just aint getting any..

i know he'll have his ass handed to him running against McCauliffe.

MarcoS

(64 posts)
3. I love waving goodbye to old centuries.
Wed Apr 10, 2013, 09:24 AM
Apr 2013

IMO somebody really needs to explain to Mr. Cuccinelli that the one and only difference made to the universe by disapproval of homosexuality or a homosexual orientation is to make the disapprover feel better about themselves.

tonekat

(1,805 posts)
4. Coo-Coo Cuccinelli Denied Sodomy?
Fri Apr 26, 2013, 04:01 PM
Apr 2013

I'm sure if he hangs out in the right type of environment, he can do something about that.

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