The U.S. Court of Appeals for the 2d Circuit ordered an army specialist and her attorney to show cause why they should not be sanctioned for bringing a frivolous suit accusing former Vice President Dick Cheney, former Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld and former Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Richard Myers of orchestrating the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks. The panel said that “the courts have no obligation to entertain pure speculation and conjecture.”
Proposition 8 supporters filed a motion arguing that former U.S. District Chief Judge Vaughn Walker’s judgment striking California’s Proposition 8 should be vacated because he may have had a personal interest in the outcome. While he was silent about his personal life while hearing the gay marriage case, Walker has since acknowledged that he is gay.
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