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warrior1

(12,325 posts) Wed Jun 26, 2013, 10:26 AM Jun 2013

We won prop 8 is dead

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Wed Jun 26, 2013, 10:29 AM

Jun 2013

From the opinion: We have never before upheld the standing of a private party to defend the constitutionality of a state statute when state officials have chosen not to. We decline to do so for the first time here.
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Amy Howe:
The Ninth Circuit was without jurisdiciton to consider the appeal. The judgment of the Ninth Circuit is vacated, and the case is remanded with instructions to dismiss the appeal for lack of jurisdiction.

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