Judge likely won’t grant Prop. 8 injunction

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Judge likely won’t grant Prop. 8 injunction

4 p.m.SAN FRANCISCO — A federal judge in San Francisco says he’s disinclined to suspend California’s voter-approved ban on same-sex marriage while a lawsuit challenging it proceeds in his court.

In a tentative ruling Tuesday, U.S. District Court Chief Judge Vaughn Walker said he’d rather move directly to a speedy trial on the case’s merits than grant a preliminary injunction that would temporarily allow gay nuptials.

A hearing on the injunction had been scheduled for Thursday.

Walker is proposing using the time instead for setting a trial schedule.

Both California Attorney General Jerry Brown and Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger have argued against suspending Proposition 8, saying that it would create unnecessary confusion for same-sex couples.

11 comment(s)

Raven wrote on Jun 30, 2009 4:48 PM:

" sound reasoning. "

kevin wrote on Jun 30, 2009 5:50 PM:

" I guess there is a first time for everything.

Even for SF courts to do something reasonable... "

Ruff Limblog wrote on Jun 30, 2009 6:03 PM:

" On with the trial... we pretty much know this will be going to the US Supreme Court.

~Ruff "

Hear Ye wrote on Jun 30, 2009 6:10 PM:

" makes sense "

John Richards wrote on Jun 30, 2009 6:16 PM:

" Judge Walker is right. We need a speedy trial so this can get to the US Supreme Court before B.O. has a chance to install more liberal justices. I like what they did with the white firefighters case yesterday. "

kevin wrote on Jun 30, 2009 10:07 PM:

" I don't see the supreme court even hearing it.

No need. "

John Richards wrote on Jun 30, 2009 10:43 PM:

" kevin wrote: " I don't see the supreme court even hearing it. "

Well, the gay activists will just keep appealing until it gets to that level. The Supremes would at least have to refuse to hear the case. "

Raven wrote on Jul 1, 2009 8:55 AM:

" don't get your hopes on on a refusal to hear by the supremes; scalia in his dissent on lawrence v texas said that L vs T could be used to invalidate bans on same sex marriage...so the conservatives like him may want to hear the case. "

magnum wrote on Jul 1, 2009 5:18 PM:

" No one was going to be happy with the outcome of Prop 8, so I thinks it's now time to let it go and move ahead. "

Raven wrote on Jul 1, 2009 10:21 PM:

" and moving to the federal courts is moving ahead, magnum. "

mgreene wrote on Jul 2, 2009 2:37 PM:

" Sounds like more waste of tax dollars for an issue that has already been decided TWICE by the voters!

Democracy....what America stands for! "

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