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Attorney General tells high court to ignore requests to delay same-sex marriage

By Jason Siegel

The state attorney general's office told the California Supreme Court to ignore requests by conservative legal groups to rehear or stay the decision on same-sex marriage until November, Cal Law's Legal Pad reported.

The California Attorney General's Office, which argued against same-sex marriage in In Re Marriage Cases, said in a brief that the case is over and that the office plans to vigorously defend to the high court's decision.

Senior Assistant Attorney General Christopher Krueger wrote in the brief that the Alliance Defense Fund failed to provide a basis for rehearing and that a stay would be unprecedented, mixing judicial and political processes, and would temporary implement a ballot initiative to ban same-sex marriage before its even voted on.

Same-sex couples will be able to get married on June 17, unless the filing of a petition could delay it by up to two months, court officials told the Los Angeles Times.

"Foes, in court, seek to delay gay marriages," San Francisco Chronicle

Full post as published by Legal Pad | LA on May 30, 2008 (boomark / email).