plaintiffs (from left) Sandy Stier, Kris Perry, Paul Katami, and Jeffrey Zarrillo . (Photo by Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)
The plaintiffs in the Prop 8 case Hollingsworth v. Perry filed their opposition brief to the proponent’s petition for a writ of certiorari to the Supreme Court. The plaintiffs, as expected, oppose Supreme Court review of this case, writing that “this Court’s traditional standards for the exercise of certiorari jurisdiction lead inexorably to the conclusion that this Court’s review is not warranted.”
If the supreme court denies to hear the case, then the lower courts which ruled that Prop. 8 unconstitutional will stand and gay marriage will be legal once again in Cali.
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Both of the plaintiff’s attorneys have been in the SCOTUS many times and know what they’re doing. I trust them to gauge the temperature of this court and make a decision that it is not the right time for the issue of marriage equality to go before the SCOTUS bench.