While the state has opted out of the defense, in September, officials in Imperial County — a rural area east of Los Angeles that has one of the highest unemployment rates in the state — filed briefs to defend the measure, saying that Judge Walker had disregarded the will of California's voters, who passed Proposition 8 in 2008 with 52 percent of the vote.
The former head, Balakhnichev, also defended his record and told the Tass news agency that he was going to file cases to defend his reputation at the Court of Arbitration for Sport in Switzerland because "otherwise we won't get to the bottom of this situation".
Halebsky knows no world is perfect, but she is less inclined to file objections than to defend, and to celebrate, what she has, what she can do, and whom she can love: "All poems are about love," she says, comparing herself "to the orange tree that won't lose its leaves" — though the same page warns us not to trust her, "raised on misquotations, abbreviations, unsubstantiated claims".
While I truly hoped that decency and professionalism would prevail and that you would let me return to work, I knew that was probably unlikely when I was placed on leave the very day the lawsuit was filed and you continued to defend the actions of the executive that I spoke out against.
Shannon Minter, legal director for The National Center for Lesbian Rights, which is defending a gay-rights group that has filed a motion to intervene to defend the law, said he was dispirited by Shubb's ruling, but believed that Mueller's opinion would ultimately prevail.
Anti-discrimination lawsuits and EEOC complaints are easy to file, costly and time-consuming to defend.
The court papers in which Mr. Moussaoui argued for the right to defend himself were filed in recent weeks under seal.
The founder of Adelphia Communications, John J. Rigas, and his three sons can seek $300,000 each from company insurance policies to cover legal bills to defend fraud suits filed by investors, a judge ruled.
Earlier Tuesday, Mr. Jacobs appeared before a Superior Court judge here to defend against a lawsuit filed by a City Council member.
