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Dave W.
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Posted - 08/08/2010 : 09:48:42 [Permalink]
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I can't find anything about Judge Walker deciding to lift the stay or not (the deadline for arguments was Friday), but according to The Daily Kos, the plaintiffs are arguing that the people who intervened to defend Prop 8 (because the defendants named in the suit, the Governator and his AG, refused to do so) don't have legal standing to mount an appeal. That would mean that the lawsuit would end with Judge Walker's ruling, unless the "defendant-intervenors" tried to get SCOTUS to reverse their own 1997 ruling on the standing requirements for appeals.
This is good and interesting stuff, except that if the legal proceedings end in Walker's court, the ruling only applies to California. If it ends in the appeals court, then it will apply to a bunch of Western states. Only if it goes to SCOTUS will it apply nation-wide, which is really what both sides ultimately want. |
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