Hours after U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder Jr. made known the Obama administration’s view that the Defense of Marriage Act is unconstitutional, the plaintiffs in the challenge to California’s Proposition 8 cited that shift in court. They asked the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit to lift the stay on a lower court ruling striking down the state ban on same-sex marriage.

DEATH OF A DEALMAKER

Joseph Flom, a storied dealmaker at Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom, died of heart failure on Feb. 23 in a New York City hospital. He was 87.

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