Appeals Court Grants DADT Stay

[Shana A]

Story Updated : October 20, 2010 07:19:00 PM
Appeals Court Grants DADT Stay
By Kerry Eleveld and Andrew Harmon

http://www.advocate.com/News/Daily_News/2010/10/20/DOJ_Appeals_For_Immediate_Stay/

Less than 24 hours after a federal judge refused to block an injunction against "don't ask, don't tell," the U.S. court of appeals for the ninth circuit has done so — at least temporarily.

A three-judge panel ordered a stay requested by the Justice Department "temporarily in order to provide this court with an opportunity to consider fully the issues presented" in the federal lawsuit against DADT, waged by the Log Cabin Republicans since 2004.

It's unclear whether the ruling by ninth circuit judges Diarmuid F. O'Scannlain, Stephen S. Trott, and William A. Fletcher was a unanimous one or a split decision.