{"id":184,"date":"2011-10-19T06:06:18","date_gmt":"2011-10-19T12:06:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gbvdems.org\/blog\/?p=184"},"modified":"2011-10-19T06:08:07","modified_gmt":"2011-10-19T12:08:07","slug":"latimes-names-of-those-opposing-domestic-partner-law-are-given-to-the-public-wa-public-disclosure-trumps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.gbvdems.org\/blog\/?p=184","title":{"rendered":"LATimes:  Names of those opposing domestic partner law are given to the public &#8211; WA public disclosure trumps"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>For a skirmish, it was a big one, reaching at one point the <strong>U.S.<\/strong> <strong>Supreme Court, which ruled that the R-71 petitions were not exempt from Washington&#8217;s public disclosure law<\/strong>, which, unlike California&#8217;s, requires that names on petitions be made public.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The high court left room for those who wanted to repeal the law to argue that there were special circumstances that made their signers particularly vulnerable and exempt from disclosure. <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>U.S. District Judge Benjamin Settle in Tacoma rejected that, though, in a ruling Monday that concluded there was no \u201creasonable probability\u201d of reprisals, threats or harassment as a result of the release of names from petitions signed two years ago.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/latimesblogs.latimes.com\/nationnow\/2011\/10\/gay-marriage.html\">http:\/\/latimesblogs.latimes.com\/nationnow\/2011\/10\/gay-marriage.html<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For a skirmish, it was a big one, reaching at one point the U.S. Supreme Court, which ruled that the R-71 petitions were not exempt from Washington&#8217;s public disclosure law, which, unlike California&#8217;s, requires that names on petitions be made &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gbvdems.org\/blog\/?p=184\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-184","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-political-news-national"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gbvdems.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gbvdems.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gbvdems.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gbvdems.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gbvdems.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=184"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.gbvdems.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gbvdems.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=184"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gbvdems.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=184"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gbvdems.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=184"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}