The Supreme Court has granted cert in the two closely-watch "gay rights" cases: the Prop. 8 same-sex marriage case, now called Hollingsworth v. Perry, and the only DOMA case to have yielded Court of Appeals decision thus far, U.S. v. Windsor. Note that in both cases, the Court directed the parties to brief the issue of standing. That's a different issue in the two cases:
In Hollingsworth, the
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