Pentagon surveys troops on DADT (again)

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Wall Street Journal
OCTOBER 20, 2010, 12:30 P.M. ET

U.S. Files Appeal to Restore 'Don't Ask, Don't Tell'

Government lawyers filed an emergency request with the federal appeals court in San Francisco Wednesday seeking to suspend a lower court order that bars the military from enforcing the "don't ask, don't tell" law against gays.

The filing came after U.S. District Judge Virginia Phillips in Riverside, Calif., said Tuesday that her week-old order barring the military from enforcing the "don't ask, don't tell" law against gays will stand.

In its filing with the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, the Justice Department asked to suspend the ruling—a move that was expected after Judge Phillips rejected the Pentagon's request for a temporarily stay of her decision while an appeal is considered.