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SF Chronicle(10-21) 16:43 PDT SAN FRANCISCO -- A battle over the disclosure of donors to the $40 million campaign to ban same-sex marriage in California is apparently headed for higher courts after a federal judge rejected claims by backers of the 2008 ballot measure that continued exposure would endanger their contributors.
After a hearing Thursday, U.S. District Judge Morrison England of Sacramento dismissed a suit by Proposition 8 campaign committees. They wanted an exemption from the state law that makes public the names of all who contributed $100 or more.
A state website has listed the donors' names since shortly after the November 2008 passage of Prop. 8, which defined marriage as the union of a man and a woman. Lawyers for the measure's sponsors were unavailable Friday but indicated earlier that they would appeal an adverse ruling; other participants in the hearing said England spoke of an expected appeal.
The suit said Prop. 8 supporters had been subjected to harassment, vandalism, hate mail, boycotts, assaults and death threats.
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