U.S. District Judge Virginia Phillips in Riverside, California has issued a worldwide injunction against the enforcement of “Don’t Ask - Don’t Tell,” the Federal law which banned open homosexuals from service in the U.S. Armed Forces. Judge Philips held the law unconstitutional on September 9, 2010. The injunction bars the Armed Forces from discharging service men and women on the basis of their declared sexual preference, pending the appeal of the September 9 decision. Judge Phillips held that “there is no adequate remedy at law to prevent the continued violation of servicemembers’ rights or to compensate them for violation of their rights,” without the injunction.
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