Richard G. EVANS, Angela Romero, Linda Fowler, Paul Brown, Jane Doe, Martina Navratilova, Bret Tanberg, Priscilla Inkpen, John Miller, the Boulder Valley School District Re-2, the City and County of Denver, the City of Boulder, the City of Aspen, and the City Council of Aspen, Plaintiffs-Appellees,
v.
Roy ROMER, as Governor of the State of Colorado, Gale A. Norton, as Attorney General of the State of Colorado, and the State of Colorado, Defendants-Appellants.
Supreme Court of Colorado, En Banc.https://leagle.com/images/logo.png
July 19, 1993.
July 19, 1993.
Attorney(s) appearing for the Case
Jean E. Dubofsky, P.C., Jean E. Dubofsky, Jeanne Winer, Joseph N. deRaismes, III, Boulder City Atty., Boulder, Holland & Hart, Gregory A. Eurich, Darlene M. Ebert, Denver Asst. City Atty., Denver, Edward M. Caswall, John P. Worcester, Aspen City Atty., Aspen, Matthew Coles, ACLU Lesbian & Gay Rights Project, New York City, Suzanne Goldberg, Lambda Legal Defense & Education Fund, Inc., New York City, Wilson, Sonsini, Goodrich & Rosati, Clyde J. Wadsworth, Palo Alto, CA, David H. Miller, American Civil Liberties Union, Denver, for plaintiffs-appellees.
Gale A. Norton, Atty. Gen., Raymond T. Slaughter, Chief Deputy Atty. Gen., Timothy M. Tymkovich, Sol. Gen., John Daniel Dailey, Deputy Atty. Gen., Paul Farley, Deputy Atty. Gen., Denver, for defendants-appellants.
Martin Kuhn, Colorado Springs, Robert K. Skolrood, Tracy Louise Winn, Virginia Beach, VA, amicus curiae, for Colorado for Family Values.
Roger Westlund, Thornton, Jordan Lorence, Paonian Springs, VA, amicus curiae, for Institute in Basic Life Principles.
Center for Human Rights Advocacy, William M. Cohen, Boulder, amicus curiae, for American Jewish Committee, United Church of Christ Office for Church in Society, Union of American Hebrew Congregations, Unitarian Universalist Ass'n, Anti-Defamation League.
Bredhoff & Kaiser, Robert H. Chanin, John M. West, Washington, DC, Martha R. Houser, Aurora, amicus curiae, for National Educ. Ass'n.
Theodore W. Rosen, David A. Braff, Penny Shane, Ralph Erich Jones, Eulalia M. Mack, Scott A. Kronland, New York City, amicus curiae, for AIDS Action Council.
Heller, Ehrman, White & McAuliffe, Stephen V. Bomse, San Francisco, CA, Feiger Collison & Killmer, Darold W. Killmer, Diane S. King, Denver, amicus curiae, for Colorado Bar Ass'n, Colorado Trial Lawyers Ass'n.
AFSCME Colorado Council 76, M. Patrick Steadman, Denver, AFL-CIO, Jack Dempsey, Kimberlee Keller, Washington, DC, amicus curiae, for American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees, AFL-CIO.
Sherman & Howard, Keith M. Angle, Ireland Stapleton Pryor & Pascoe, Scot M. Peterson, Denver, amicus curiae, for Coalition of Associations of Mental Health Professionals.
Supreme Court of Colorado, En Banc.
Chief Justice ROVIRA delivered the Opinion of the Court.
Defendants, Roy Romer, Governor of the State of Colorado, Gale A. Norton, Attorney General of the State of Colorado, and the State of Colorado (referred to collectively as "defendants") appeal the trial court's entry of a preliminary injunction enjoining them from enforcing a voter-initiated amendment to the Colorado Constitution ("Amendment 2"). We affirm.
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