Tag: Prop 8
Posted on Tue May 26, 2009 at 11:17:23 AM EST
Tags: Prop 8, gay marriage (all tags)
Update: Here's the opinion (pdf. How Appealing has uploaded it here.
Update: "A divided California Supreme Court today let stand Proposition 8, continuing marriage discrimination in California. The Court refused to undo the 18,000 marriages that same-sex couples celebrated in 2008, so that those couples remain married even while other California couples are, for now, barred from joining in marriage." [More...]
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Posted on Tue May 26, 2009 at 07:48:00 AM EST
Tags: Prop 8, gay marriage (all tags)
The California Supreme Court will issue its long-awaited decision on gay marriage today. Some recent news coverage:
- Hundreds pray on eve of Prop 8 ruling
- Weariness and confidence as foes and backers of Proposition 8 await court ruling
- California Supreme Court to issue same-sex marriage decision today
- Gay-Marriage Fight to Persist in California
- California Couples Await Gay Marriage Ruling
Predictions, anyone?
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Posted on Thu Mar 05, 2009 at 11:50:41 AM EST
Tags: Prop 8 (all tags)
The California Supreme Court is holding oral arguments on Prop 8 and gay marriage today.
You can watch the hearings live on the web here.
In a nutshell:The court will hear three hours of arguments and have 90 days to issue an opinion. If it overturns the ban, gay couples would again be permitted to marry in California.
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Posted on Fri Dec 19, 2008 at 09:44:46 PM EST
Tags: Prop 8 (all tags)
California Attorney General Jerry Brown reversed course today and asked the California Supreme Court to find Prop 8 unconstitutional.
Brown, who is required to defend state laws unless he cannot find reasonable legal grounds to do so, said after Prop. 8 passed Nov. 4 that he would support the initiative before the state's high court.
"Proposition 8 must be invalidated because the amendment process cannot be used to extinguish fundamental constitutional rights without compelling justification," Brown said. The authors of the state Constitution, he said, did not intend "to put a group's right to enjoy liberty to a popular vote."
The pro-Prop 8 group filed its brief today as well. Their chief counsel? Kenneth Starr.
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