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6 Apr 2011, 8:12 am by Lyle Denniston
The Proposition 8 supporters are to file their reply brief by April 18. [read post]
26 Jun 2013, 6:18 pm
California state officials declined to defend Proposition 8, and the District Court allowed the Proponents (the parties who put Proposition 8 on the ballot) to defend it. [read post]
19 Aug 2009, 2:06 pm
    Judge Walker has set an October 14 hearing date for any pre-trial summary judgement motion that the Proposition 8 Proponents, official intervenor defendants, might care to make. [read post]
17 Aug 2010, 9:40 am by Lyle Denniston
   The Imperial County appeal could take on added significance if the Circuit Court, when it reaches the merits of the cases, decides that the Proposition 8 proponents do not have a right to participate in the case. [read post]
15 Jul 2013, 7:44 am by Howard Friedman
Petitioners, who were the official proponents of Proposition 8, argue in part in their filing with the California Supreme Court:The Perry injunction is no bar to this outcome, for at least two reasons. [read post]
17 Feb 2011, 4:15 am by Howard Friedman
Schwarzenneger -- the challenge to the constitutionality of California's Proposition 8 that bars same-sex marriage-- the U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals certified to the California Supreme Court the question of whether under California law "official proponents of an initiative measure" have, under state law, a sufficient interest to give them standing to defend the constitutionality of the initiative when the public officials refuse to do… [read post]
20 Nov 2008, 6:50 am
It permits the official proponents of the ballot issue to intervene as a party. [read post]
6 Aug 2010, 12:47 pm by Lyle Denniston
Walker, is expecting briefs later today on whether he will put his decision on hold while the proponents of Proposition 8 pursue their appeal. [read post]
21 Apr 2011, 12:19 pm by Lyle Denniston
The Supreme Court’s January 2010 order blocking public TV broadcasting of the trial on the constitutionality of the Proposition 8 ban on same-sex marriage is a total ban, so the videotape of the trial must remain sealed permanently, the proponents of the marriage measure argued on Thursday. [read post]
5 Aug 2010, 4:59 am by Larry Ribstein
” The court reasoned: For the reasons stated in the sections that follow, the evidence presented at trial fatally undermines the premises underlying proponents’ proffered rationales for Proposition 8. [read post]
4 Aug 2010, 1:39 pm by David Lat
Expect Prop 8 proponents to turn to a higher court in 3, 2, 1…. [read post]
16 Aug 2010, 9:59 am by Lyle Denniston
Since state officials had agreed with the challengers to Proposition 8 that the ban was unconstitutional, there was no live “case or controversy” before Judge Walker unless the supporters of the ballot measure had a right to be in court (that is, had ‘standing”), the proponents’ final brief asserted. [read post]
7 Feb 2012, 12:00 pm by Record on Appeal
  Judge Smith agreed that the Proponents had standing, but disagreed that "Proposition 8 is not rationally related to a legitimate governmental interest. [read post]
22 Nov 2011, 12:27 pm by Donna Bader
  In the federal case, the opponents of Proposition 8 are challenging its constitutionality. [read post]
18 Apr 2011, 2:06 pm by Lyle Denniston
Backers of California’s Proposition 8 ban on same-sex marriage filed the final written arguments on Monday in the California Supreme Court, on the question of whether they have a right under state law to defend their measure in court when state officials refused to do so. [read post]
4 Aug 2010, 4:50 pm by Howard Friedman
Proponents also argued that Proposition 8 protects the First Amendment freedom of those who oppose same-sex marriage. [read post]
12 May 2011, 7:57 pm by Lyle Denniston
  In briefs (here and here) filed with a federal District judge in San Francisco, the officials argued against overturning the decision last August to nullify Proposition 8. [read post]
16 Nov 2011, 1:40 pm by Lyle Denniston
   State officials in California, however, have repeatedly declined to defend Proposition 8, which changed the state constitution to forbid same-sex couples to get married — overturning a state Supreme Court ruling allowing such marriages. [read post]
24 Dec 2008, 4:58 pm
In his brief filed in the California Supreme Court in response to the petition to set aside Proposition 8, Dean Kenneth Starr of Pepperdine Law School argues on behalf of the Official Proponents that Proposition 8 should be construed to invalidate the approximately 18,000 same-sex marriages that were performed in California prior to election day this year. [read post]