legal action

Episcopal Church leaders plan to take legal action for the return of property held by 11 parishes that broke away because of the church's tolerance of gay clergy and relationships.

The conservative group hopes to take legal action against pro-LGBT policies that have been in place since 2016.

Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger announced late Wednesday that he will veto a bill that would have made California the first state to legalize same-sex marriage through legislative action.

The California supreme court has refused to hear a case seeking to keep an initiative that would ban gay marriage off the November ballot. The justices' decision not to take up the case means Proposition 8 will stay on the ballot barring further legal action.

The U.S. Senate Ethics Committee says Idaho senator Larry Craig acted improperly in connection with a men's room sex sting last year and had brought discredit on the Senate. In a letter to the Republican senator, the ethics panel said Craig's attempt to withdraw his guilty plea after his arrest at an airport in Minnesota was an effort to evade legal consequences of his actions. Craig's actions constitute ''improper conduct which has reflected discreditably on the Senate,'' the letter said.

Robin Tyler and Diane Olson, the first plaintiff couple named in the historic lawsuit that overturned California's ban on gay marriage and the first same-sex couple married in Los Angeles County in June, wasted no time filing a new lawsuit with California's supreme court Wednesday morning. In announcing their legal action, the couple also said the No on 8 campaign -- specifically Los Angeles-based efforts -- dropped the ball in helping to defeat the measure.