A new front in the battle over gay marriage in California will open today when two prominent attorneys will challenge Proposition 8 in federal court. The attorneys, who argued on opposite sides of the Bush vs. Gore election case in 2000, will hold a press conference announcing a federal lawsuit and calls for the restoration of gay marriage until the case is decided. Former U.S. Solicitor General Theodore B. Olson and David Boies, who represented then-Vice President Al Gore in the contested election, have joined forces to tackle the same-sex-marriage issue, which has deeply divided Californians and left 18,000 gay couples married last year in legal isolation. The lawyers are scheduled to appear this morning at the Biltmore Hotel in downtown Los Angeles.

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