Imperial County appeals judge's overturning of gay marriage ban

[FreeState]

Source: LA Times

The County of Imperial filed an appeal Tuesday with the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals challenging U.S. District Judge Vaughn Walker's ruling that deemed Proposition 8's ban of same-sex marriage unconstitutional.

The County Board of Supervisors voted 4-1 earlier in the day to approve the appeal, according to the Imperial Valley Press. Voters in Imperial County voted overwhelmingly in favor of Prop. 8, which enshrined a definition of marriage as between one man and one woman in the state Constitution.

Walker last week deemed the ballot initiative in violation of the U.S. Constitution in a case that is likely to wind its way to the U.S. Supreme Court.

Attorneys for official backers of Prop. 8, ProtectMarriage, have appealed the ruling. Walker last week denied Imperial County's effort to intervene in the case, saying the county lacked sufficient interests in the matter to do so. The county, represented by the Christian legal group Advocates for Faith and Freedom, pledged to appeal that denial.

Read more: http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/lanow/2010/08/imperial-county-appeals-judges-ruling-overturning-gay-marriage-ban-prop-8.html

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To bad so sad, Imperial County has no legal standing to appeal (they are not in charge of marriages for the state). Its been ruled that way already and will be again...

[Richard D]

1. Imperial county . . .

. . . one of the meth capitals of the US.

[Recursion]

2. Wait... is "Imperial" county why it's called the inland empire?

Or, as we called it, "that God-awful never ending blight of strip malls between 29 Palms and San Diego".

[3waygeek]

3. I never really thought of that area as the Inland Empire...

to me, the IE is the area between Pomona & San Bernadino from the SB mountains south to Riverside. Of course, that's probably because my folks lived in Rancho Cucamonga for 25 years.

[Recursion]

4. It turns out I was wrong

I thought of the IE as everything east of the coastal lowlands and south of the high desert; wiki tells me it's a lot smaller than that.

[cyr330]

5. In the Shitty Central Valley. . .

Too bad it can't fall off the state into the Pacific Ocean! Wrong side of the state!

[Xithras]

11. Imperial isnt in the Central Valley.

It's in the southern desert on the Mexican border.

[cyr330]

12. OOps!

I'm always trying to pin shit on the Central Valley! Oh well. . . Thanks for the correction!

[msanthrope]

6. Just another winger pseudo-foundation. n/t

[SoapBox]

7. Do they have nothing better to do? Or to spend precious tax dollars on?

...they should be removed from office for wasting time and money.

[backtomn]

8. But we should all know that this isn't done.

This will be appealed....it will probably be upheld by the 9th Circuit.....and, unfortunately we will have to wait to see what Justice Kennedy feels about it. On most big issues before the Court, it appears that Kennedy is going to be the "Decider-in-Chief".....a pretty screwed up system, win or lose.

[FreeState]

9. It might not even make it to the 9 District of Appeals - one must have standing to appeal the ruling

The proponents in the District case were granted a right to intervene because the state refused to defend the law. Standing is different and neither Yes On 8 or this county have legal standing to appeal.

See: http://calitics.com/diary/12276/prop-8-stay-standing

[msanthrope]

10. SCOTUS already ruled---9-0, vacating the 9th's Yniguez v. Arizona.

Can you explain how this case differs?