Across the nation.Sacramento, Calif. A superior court judge on December 18 denied a request for a preliminary injunction A temporary order made by a court at the request of one party that prevents the other party from pursuing a particular course of conduct until the conclusion of a trial on the merits. A preliminary injunction is regarded as extraordinary relief. against the state's groundbreaking new domestic-partnership law. The law, which tares effect January 1, 2005, still faces two separate court challenges. Cincinnati, Ohio Hamilton County common pleas Trial-level courts of general jurisdiction. One of the royal common-law courts in England existing since the beginning of the thirteenth century and developing from the Curia Regis, or the King's Court. judge Norbert A. Nadel on December 22 dismissed a challenge to the city's newly expanded hate-crimes law, which was amended to include crimes motivated by sexual orientation sexual orientation n. The direction of one's sexual interest toward members of the same, opposite, or both sexes, especially a direction seen to be dictated by physiologic rather than sociologic forces. and gender. Lansing, Mich. Gov. Jennifer Granholm issued an executive order on December 23 banning discrimination based on sexual orientation in state employment. Hagerstown, Md. Organizers of the Miss Gay American National Pageant, a female impersonator female impersonator Vox populi Drag queen, see there contest scheduled for January 10, canceled the event on December 16 and decided to move it out of the city, citing local opposition that included antigay comments by Mayor William Breichner, in which he likened the event to a Ku Klux Klan Ku Klux Klan (k  ' klŭks klăn), designation mainly given to two distinct secret societies that played a part in American history, although other less important groups have also used rally.
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