Calif AG asks court to lift gay marriage stay

Dan82 · Mar 1, 2011

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2011/03/01/state/n125053S03.DTL

California's attorney general asked a federal appeals court on Tuesday to allow gay marriages to resume while the court considers the constitutionality of the state's ban on same-sex unions.

The request came after the California Supreme Court said it needed the rest of the year to consider a legal question the appeals court said it needs answered before it can resolve the case.

In her letter to the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, state Attorney General Kamala Harris said the sponsors of the voter-approved ban, known as Proposition 8, were unlikely to prevail in their appeal to reinstate the ban that was struck down by a trial judge...

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2011/03/01/state/n125053S03.DTL
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Revan · Mar 1, 2011

I hope they will but it's quite a bold statement to outright say they'll fail. Even though I truly believe they will.

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