6.26.13 DOMA rulings today -- will Adam be able to marry?

I really hate this:
bigstory.ap.org/article/gay-marriage-ruling-draws-sober-response-sf


SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — A federal appeals court said Wednesday it will wait at least 25 days before making a decision on whether gay marriages can resume in California.

The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals said backers of Proposition 8 — the state ban on gay marriages — have that long to ask the Supreme court to rehear the case.

The San Francisco-based court said it may continue to bar gay marriages even beyond that time if proponents of Prop 8 ask for a rehearing.

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That is an expected procedural event. This again from Scotusblog:

In procedural terms, that dismissal will start a series of steps in lower courts that will determine just when California’s large population of gays and lesbians could gain a full right to marry. The case will first make a stop in the Ninth Circuit, which must obey the Court’s order to dismiss the backers’ appeal. 

That would leave standing the August 2010 decision by now-retired U.S. District Judge Vaughn R. Walker of San Francisco, striking down the measure on a broad constitutional premise of equality and due process.   Judge Walker’s order against enforcing “Proposition 8″ thus would appear to go into effect once the case physically landed back in the District Court where he had sat, unless the measure’s backers can find some legal method to try to narrow its scope.


Absent such a narrowing, the Walker decision would require the top officials in California — the governor and attorney general — to apply the decision and to order county clerks across the state to begin issuing marriage licenses to gay and lesbian couples.  While the order also applies only to two counties’ clerks — in Alameda and Los Angeles —all clerks in California are likely to get orders to grant such licenses.

One of the ironies of the demise of the defense of ”Proposition 8″ in the Supreme Court’s procedural ruling on “standing” was that this case had been put together explicitly to be an ultimate test of a constitutional right to equal marriage for homosexuals — a test that ultimately the Supreme Court would settle.   In the end, the Court did not pass upon that issue, but appeared to have cleared the way for gays and lesbians to marry in that state, when whatever legal maneuvering remains reaches its end.

Full story: www.scotusblog.com/2013/06/opinions-recap-giant-step-for-gay-marriage/

Okay, I might have gone a bit over the top, but who knows when we'll see the President's name in the same sentence with Adam's again.
twitter.com/RollingStone/status/349964301680918530

Wouldn't this be a good time to link the 'Outlaws of Love' St Agathe youtube to every article about DOMA?