Expert Battle Comes Early in Proposition 8 Case

Law.com (The Recorder): “George Chauncey — a Yale-educated professor now on the faculty in New Haven, Conn., a published author with a calm demeanor — makes for a compelling expert witness. So after testimony for the better part of an afternoon about discrimination gays and lesbians have faced, lawyers defending a ban on gay marriage took a very direct tactic.”You’ve donated money to Lambda Legal in the past, haven’t you?” asked Cooper & Kirk partner David Thompson . . . “