The Justice Department files a friend-of-the-court brief in the California Marriage Amendment case. Cheerleaders at Kountze High School in Texas are suing for the right to display signs with Bible verses at sporting events. Syrian rebels will get another sixty-million dollars from the US to help in efforts to overthrow Bashar al-Assad. In economic news, the government revises the gross domestic product figures upward two-tenths of a percentage point.