I previously blogged (here, here, here, and here) the AALS’s decision to move all AALS events at the January 2009 annual meeting out of the Manchester Grand Hyatt because the owner of the hotel, Doug Manchester, had made a $125,000 contribution in support of a ballot initiative to ban gay marriage in California.  The San Diego Union Tribune reports today:

The Manchester Grand Hyatt has lost its second major conference in a week in large part because of owner Doug Manchester’s stance against same-sex marriage.

The county retirement board voted unanimously yesterday to move its October conference out of the downtown Hyatt after a board member raised concerns over Manchester’s $125,000 contribution to a signature-gathering campaign to place Proposition 8 on the Nov. 4 ballot.

The retirement group joins the Association of American Law Schools, which opted this week to hold its January convention at the San Diego Marriott Hotel & Marina and not at the neighboring Hyatt. The association had been asked by some legal education groups to honor a boycott against the Hyatt.

(Hat Tip: Francine J. Lipman.)