the fact that they took a right away that had just been given to us that attracted ted oleson and david boyes to our state and case and led us through a historic trial. do you want to talk about the second half of that? >> yeah. thank you. hi, everybody and i'm getting to see some folks i got to see earlier today when i was participating in a panel talking about the federal government's role in advancing lgbt issues. i work for the federal government right now. so it's interesting and a pleasure to do. so once we got involved in the case, with proposition 8 case in california, we went on an amazing adventure. some people participated in that with us. we sued the state of california and federal court. we sued the governor of california. the governor of california was chris's boss because she was an appointee to a director of a state agency in california that worked on early education and health issues for young children. so when perry sued schwarzenegger, she sued her boss. that wasn't the weird thing. the crazy thing is we went to the court and expected to have a series of court dates where w