Talk:Varnum v. Brien

People involved
I created Varnum_v._Brien_Attorneys to list all the interests fighting behind the scenes in this decision. I am not adept at formating and making pretty pages. If someone could take a look at it and say if it is adequate, that might help. MasFina (talk) 16:35, 6 April 2009 (UTC)


 * I'm not trying to start trouble here, but I'm not sure we need a separate page to list the attorneys. Why not just put all the information into one article? -- Eastlaw  talk ⁄ contribs 04:20, 25 April 2009 (UTC)


 * I agree - in fact, I don't see the relevance of listing most of these lawyers. Certainly the lawyers for the parties should be listed, and possibly a few for significant amicus filers, but I don't see a need to list all of them. --Philosopher Let us reason together. 01:34, 26 April 2009 (UTC)

Citation
That's clearly not the complete Westlaw citation in the article lead, but in any event we should provide a citation to a print reporter, either the West regional for Iowa or the Iowa state reporter. Postdlf (talk) 15:03, 25 May 2009 (UTC)

District court ruling
The document cited by this article as the district court ruling appears to be a brief by the parties, not a judicial decision: it is signed by counsel, not a judge, and uses argumentative language like "The Court is urged" and "Plaintiff alleges". Please tell me if I am wrong, but otherwise I am going to remove the citations, rename the external link, and try to track down the text of the actual ruling. --Padraic 20:10, 12 March 2011 (UTC)
 * You're correct. It's wrong on Lambda Legal's site, too. --joe deckertalk to me 00:29, 8 May 2012 (UTC)