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16 Aug 2010, 4:58 pm by Lyle Denniston
   With the delay, Proposition 8? [read post]
16 Aug 2010, 2:26 pm
Proposition 8 Official Proponents, 587 F.3d 947, 950 n2 (9th Cir2009). [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]
15 Aug 2010, 9:22 pm by Jonathan H. Adler
  Consider what would happen if, come November or January, the state now has an AG who wants to defend Proposition 8. [read post]
15 Aug 2010, 8:10 am by Jonathan H. Adler
Judge Walker wrote in part: As official proponents under California law, proponents organized the successful campaign for Proposition 8. . . . [read post]
14 Aug 2010, 7:07 am by Lyle Denniston
  The county’s officials, according to the brief, have their own official interests in enforcing Proposition 8, and thus in defending it. [read post]
12 Aug 2010, 7:37 pm by Lyle Denniston
  On Thursday evening, hours after the judge’s latest ruling against them, the proponents began another maneuver in the Circuit Court: a plea for a formal postponement (a “stay”) of the Walker opinion while they pursue their appeal on the merits of Proposition 8? [read post]
12 Aug 2010, 6:19 pm by Garry J. Wise, Wise Law Office, Toronto
For example, in his ruling today, Judge Walker casts serious doubt on whether the proponents of Prop 8 even have "standing" to pursue an appeal because they do not speak for the state of California, and the official representatives of the state agree that Prop 8 is unconstitutional. [read post]
12 Aug 2010, 1:47 pm by Howard Friedman
Only the intervenors, who organized the campaign in support of Proposition 8, favored a stay. [read post]
12 Aug 2010, 12:53 pm by Dale Carpenter
  Specifically, the official Prop 8 proponents who defended the law in his court do not have standing, he held. [read post]
12 Aug 2010, 12:35 pm by Lyle Denniston
The judge said he had offered Proposition 8? [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]
5 Aug 2010, 9:49 am
In ruling for Plaintiffs, Judge Walker found that Prop. 8 proponents failed to present credible factual evidence that Prop. 8 served a legitimate government interest, and in fact, Prop. 8 harms the state’s interest in equality “based only on antiquated and discredited notions of gender. [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, 11:46 pm by Jeff Gamso
Because California has no interest in discriminating against gay men and lesbians, and because Proposition 8 prevents California from fulfilling its constitutional obligation to provide marriages on an equal basis, the court concludes that Proposition 8 is unconstitutional.We're not done, of course. [read post]
4 Aug 2010, 5:45 pm by The Recorder
If true, the alarming implication is that a ruling declaring Proposition 8 unconstitutional may be effectively unappealable. [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]
4 Aug 2010, 3:23 pm by Michael
Walker, the chief judge of the Federal District Court in San Francisco, who heard the case without a jury, immediately stayed his decision pending appeals by proponents of Proposition 8 … [read post]