California same-sex marriage opponents seek to expunge donor records

Backers of Prop 8, the 2008 California initiative that banned same-sex marriage, are asking the Ninth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals to exempt the names of contributors to the ballot measure from disclosure after they have been subjected to harassment and threats. One of the judges hearing the appeal said the names were already out on the Internet in compliance with court order. (San Francisco Chronicle, October 12, 2013, by Bob Egelko)

A lawyer for the groups who supported Prop 8, since overturned by Supreme Court decision, pointed out that the NAACP in the 1960s and the Socialist  Workers Party in the 1970s had obtained exemption from disclosure. (Courthouse News Service, October 14, 2013, by Maria Dinzeo)