Posted by Dale Carpenter: Prop 8 decision Tuesday: http://volokh.com/archives/archive_2009_05_17-2009_05_23.shtml#1243015219
After a longer-than-anticipated delay, the California Supreme Court will issue its opinion in the Proposition 8 challenge on [1]Tuesday at 10 a.m. Pacific time. There are two basic questions before the court: (1) Is Prop 8 a valid "amendment" of the state constitution or an invalid "revision"? (2) If Prop 8 is valid, and thus marriage is now limited under the state constitution to one man and one woman, what is the status of the thousands of California same-sex marriages entered between June and November 2008? The conventional wisdom has been that the court will uphold Prop 8 but will also declare that the interim same-sex marriages in the state are valid. References 1. http://www.courtinfo.ca.gov/courts/supreme/#forthcoming _______________________________________________ Volokh mailing list [email protected] http://lists.powerblogs.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/volokh
