One day after a judge in California refused to halt a permanent worldwide injunction barring enforcement of “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell,” the federal government filed an emergency motion asking a federal appeals court to grant a temporary stay of that order.
In a motion filed today before the Ninth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals, lawyers for the Justice Department asked for an immediate administrative stay to give them time to argue for a complete stay pending their appeal. U.S. District Judge Virginia Phillips in Riverside on Tuesday refused to grant the government’s request for a stay of her Oct. 12 injunction.
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