UPDATE FRIDAY p.m.  The Ninth Circuit Court has set a schedule
for the Obama Administration’s appeal in the “don’t ask/don’t
tell” case that, unless expedited, would have the case still in
the briefing stage through late February or early March.  The
case has been docketed in the Circuit Court as 10-56634.  The
scheduling order is here.    The flurry of filings in the
District Court in Riverside, CA, included an emergency stay
application (here), a legal memorandum supporting it (here),
sworn staements by a Pentagon official and a government lawyer,
a proposed stay order (here), and a formal notice of appeal to
the Ninth Circuit Court.  The government lawyers moved so
quickly, two days after Judge Virginia A. Phillips issued what
the government called “a worldwide injunction” against
enforcement of the ban, that they did not take time to give
formal notice to lawyers for the challengers on the other side. 
They indicated, however, that they had been told that the
challengers will oppose an immediate stay of J