{"id":9330,"date":"2012-06-05T11:11:44","date_gmt":"2012-06-05T18:11:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bradblog.com\/?p=9330"},"modified":"2012-06-05T13:30:14","modified_gmt":"2012-06-05T20:30:14","slug":"breaking-full-us-9th-circuit-court-of-appeals-declines-to-reconsider-panel-ruling-that-ca-prop-8-gay-marriage-equality-ban-is-unconstitutional","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=9330","title":{"rendered":"BREAKING: Full U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals Declines to Reconsider Panel Ruling That CA Prop 8 Gay Marriage Equality Ban Is Unconstitutional"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/BradBlog.com\/Images\/Prop8_JustAlmostMarried.jpg\" hspace=\"6\" vspace=\"3\" border=\"0\" align=\"right\"><em>Guest blogged by Ernest A. Canning<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeal issued a <a href=\"http:\/\/lawprofessors.typepad.com\/conlaw\/2012\/06\/ninth-circuit-refuses-en-banc-consideration-of-perry-v-brown-the-prop-8-case.html\">terse decision<\/a> denying a petition for rehearing of the earlier 2-1 9th Circuit panel decision in <a href=\"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012-02-07-Decision-on-Merits.pdf\"><em>Perry vs. Brown<\/em> [PDF]<\/a> in which the majority ruled that CA Proposition 8&#8217;s effort to strip away the previously recognized right of same sex couples to marry was unconstitutional.  <\/p>\n<p>The court order noted:  &#8220;The matter failed to receive a majority of the votes of non-recused active judges in favor of <em>en banc<\/em> consideration.&#8221;  (<em>En banc<\/em> essentially means &#8216;by the full 9th Circuit&#8217;, as opposed to a three judge panel.)<\/p>\n<p>The order added, however:  &#8220;The mandate is stayed for ninety days pending the filing of a petition for writ of certiorari in the Supreme Court.  If such a petition is filed, the stay shall continue until final disposition by the Supreme Court.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>This essentially means that, despite the determination that Prop 8 is unconstitutional, same sex couples in CA cannot effectuate their right to marry until either 90 days have lapsed, or longer if a Supreme Court challenge is filed.<\/p>\n<p>As <a href=\"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=9110\">The BRAD BLOG previously averred<\/a>, U.S. 9th Circuit Judge Stephen Reinhardt&#8217;s earlier majority opinion in this case was &#8220;so narrow and so tightly crafted to meet the criteria of a 1996 U.S. Supreme Court decision, <a href=\"http:\/\/caselaw.lp.findlaw.com\/cgi-bin\/getcase.pl?court=US&#038;vol=000&#038;invol=U10179\"><em>Romer v. Evans<\/em><\/a>, that it minimized the chances that the U.S. Supreme Court will decide to hear the case, let alone reverse the decision.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Guest blogged by Ernest A. Canning The U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeal issued a terse decision denying a petition for rehearing of the earlier 2-1 9th Circuit panel decision in Perry vs. Brown [PDF] in which the majority ruled that CA Proposition 8&#8217;s effort to strip away the previously recognized right of same sex [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":107,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[21,309,126,127,313],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-9330","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-california","category-gay-marriage","category-rights-and-freedoms","category-the-constitution","category-us-supreme-court"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9330","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/107"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9330"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9330\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9330"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9330"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9330"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcoauthors&post=9330"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}