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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]
17 Sep 2010, 8:49 pm by Lyle Denniston
  And although the official ballot proponents of Proposition 8…have properly intervened and offered a vigorous defense of Proposition 8, their Article III standing to appeal has been called into question by the plaintiffs and the district court. [read post]
26 Jun 2013, 7:58 pm by Howard Friedman
 However when Proposition 8 was challenged in federal district court, the court permitted the official initiative proponents to intervene as defendants. [read post]
1 Dec 2011, 7:26 am by John E. Harding, JD, CFLS
The California Supreme Court decided as a matter of California law, that initiative proponents enjoy some special capacity to represent the state’s electorate when public officials decline to defend a law adopted through direct democracy. [read post]
13 Mar 2012, 6:58 am by Stephen Wermiel
California’s top elected officials refused to defend Proposition 8 because they considered it unconstitutional. [read post]
7 Feb 2012, 6:51 pm by admin
We need not and do not answer the broader question in this case, however, because California had already extended to committed same-sex couples both the incidents of marriage and the official designation of “marriage,” and 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]
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]
5 Jan 2011, 11:17 am by Record on Appeal
  The Official Proponents of Proposition 8 appealed the district court’s substantive ruling and the intervenors appealed the denial of intervention. [read post]
27 May 2009, 8:47 am by Joe Markowitz
Horton and related cases, was about as narrow a victory for the proponents of Proposition 8 that the Court could have rendered. [read post]
24 Aug 2012, 7:55 pm by Lyle Denniston
In San Francisco officials’ new brief in the “Proposition 8? [read post]
3 Jul 2013, 5:10 pm by Vikram David Amar
  In particular, the Court needed to steer clear of damaging the initiative device in general even as it denied standing to Proposition 8’s sponsors in particular. [read post]
12 Aug 2010, 12:35 pm by Lyle Denniston
The judge said he had offered Proposition 8? [read post]
10 Apr 2013, 9:01 pm by Vikram David Amar
  But many—myself included—think that, among the various scenarios, the most probable outcome (and one that is perhaps more likely than not) is that a majority of Justices will dispose of the case by finding that the Proposition 8 sponsors (also known as the officialproponents” of the measure), the only ones who defended against the challenge, do not enjoy standing in federal court to speak on behalf of the State. [read post]