Attorney David Codell is Visiting Arnold D. Kassoy Senior Scholar of Law and Legal Director at the Williams Institute at UCLA. Before participating in a panel on the future of marriage rights for same-sex couples, he told his funniest story about Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg—for whom he clerked—in the Zócalo green room.
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I’m going to let you in on confidential marriage, an only-in-California concoction that is little known but deeply relevant to today’s debates about marriage.
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Lisa Zeidner is the author most recently of the novel Love Bomb, the story of a wedding that goes very wrong when the guests are taken hostage. She is also …
I didn’t appreciate how odd our courtship was until Virginia gave me up for Lent. We were both 16.
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I was a virgin on my wedding night. This is neither a confession nor a brag, simply a statement of fact. It was expected. The year was 1950. Horror stories …
My grandfather, age 94, is in the hospital for a hip replacement. My grandmother, age 87, hasn’t visited him once. It’s been almost two weeks now.
Many of us dream of …
