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Three Democrats are asking House Speaker John Boehner for more information about the new law firm hired by House Republicans to defend the Defense of Marriage Act in federal court. House Administration Committee Ranking Member Robert A. Brady, joined with fellow committee members Zoe Lofgren of California and Charles A. Gonzalez of Texas said in a joint letter to Boehner after the law firm of King & Spalding decided to step down from the case, when one of its partners, former Solicitor General Paul Clement, signed on to defend the government. Soon after King & Spalding withdrew their resources, Clement resigned from the firm and joined Bancroft PLLC.

House Republicans have recruited former Solicitor General Paul Clement to represent the government in federal cases challenging the Defense of Marriage Act. House attorneys are expected to file a motion to intervene in Windsor v. United States of America in U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York. Edie Windsor sued after the federal government refused to recognize her marriage to Thea Spyer, who died in 2009. As a result of DOMA, Windsor was forced to pay estate tax — a six-figure bill she would have been exempt from were her marriage recognized.

Julia Graves, the lead attorney for 18-year-old Kaitlyn Hunt, the former high school cheerleader facing felony child abuse charges for a consensual sexual relationship with her then-14-year-old girlfriend and basketball teammate, has filed a motion to remove the judge assigned to the case.

Lawyers for Children, an organization that offers free legal and social work advocacy to abused children, is one of the organizations in the running for Lady Gaga’s $1 Million grant. Lady Gaga is working with the Robin Hood Foundation to aid the homeless youth of the Big Apple. The other organizations competing for the grant are SCO Family of Services, The Door, Safe Horizon and the Hetrick-Martin Institute.

The Good Wife is currently cherry picking some of the greatest female guest stars in Hollywood. Just within the past few weeks it was announced that Maura Tierney was joining CBS’s critical darling of a legal/political/family drama as the “doyenne of Chicago politics” and then the news came out that Kristin Chenoweth would be playing a political reporter.

The ongoing saga of Kaitlyn Hunt, the 18-year-old high school senior in Florida currently facing felony sex offender charges for a pre-existing relationship with her 15-year-old girlfriend, has grabbed headlines around the world

In a brief filed Friday, a lawyer with the Obama administration called for the Supreme Court to strike down Section 3 of the Defense of Marriage Act.

Sandra Bullock is talking to lawyers and may be seeking a divorce. Jesse James is also allegedly looking for an attorney. It sounds like Bullock is going to do the right thing as rumors circulate that she is interviewing divorce lawyers after finding out her hubby was in bed with the tattooed home wrecker Michelle "Bombshell" McGee, who also had alleged lesbian affairs. Bullock has consulted divorce lawyers including Lance Spiegel who has handled divorces for Michael Jackson, Charlie Sheen and Heather Locklear. 

The lawyer for one of the clerks issuing marriage licenses in Rowan County, Ky., says forms altered by Kim Davis are not valid and in violation of a federal judge's order.

More than 100 newly graduated lawyers walked out of their own graduation at the University of Michigan Law School on Saturday to protest the commencement speech by antigay Ohio Sen. Rob Portman.

Gov. Sarah Palin announced that Anchorage lawyer, who has called gays and lesbians 'degenerates,' Wayne Anthony Ross would be her new attorney general last Thursday. 

A former child soldier and Sudanese refugee who twice raped an Australian woman has been sentenced to four years in jail.  A lawyer for Condoc Mario Ring claimed that he had consensual sex with the 45-year-old woman, but she told the court she is a lesbian and not had sex with a man for 22 years.

Jane Lynch talks about her lesbian romance scenes with Cybill Shepherd on The L Word in her new memoir Happy Accidents. We have come to love Jane Lynch for her role as the tough-as-nails cheerleading coach on Glee, as well as for her reoccurring role as Joyce Wischina, the no-holds-barred lesbian lawyer on The L Word.