USSC Grants Cert in Prop 8 Case (states, supporters, 2013, California)

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SCOTUSblog is reporting that the United States Supreme Court has just granted cert in Perry v. Hollingsworth, the Prop 8 case.

Arguments have not been scheduled yet, but presumably the high court will be hearing the case sometime in the spring of 2013, with a decision before the traditional July 4 deadline.

http://www.scotusblog.com/case-files...worth-v-perry/

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Per the grant, the high court has agreed to hear both the merits of the case and to address the issue of whether or not the appellants (ie, Perry et all, the supporters of Prop 8) have standing. If the court should determine that they do not have standing, then the question of merit is moot and is unlikely to be addressed.

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If the USSC rules against the standing of Perry, that would not only preclude the high court's consideration of the merits of the case, it would wipe out the Ninth Circuit's ruling and re-establish Judge Walker's more expansive District Court ruling as binding law -- though only in California.