The California Supreme Court recently issued it’s decision that it will hear the matter of whether the plaintiffs in the CA Prop 8 case have the right to appeal Judge Walker’s ruling to overturn Prop 8. The court has expedited the hearing, which could begin in September of this year. Depending on what happens at that hearing, the fate of this appeal could be dragged into 2012.
The attorneys in the case, Ted Olson and David Boies, on behalf of the American Foundation for Equal Rights, have now filed documents with the court, urging an end to the stay on same sex marriages in the state of California while the case is being heard.
“[T]here there can be no justification for prolonging the suffering of plaintiffs and the tens of thousands of couples like them for an additional year,” attorney Ted Olson wrote in a court filing.
Julian Bond of the NAACP, and a board member of AFER, added this…
“These delays due to procedural technicalities are extraordinarily harmful and need to be resolved. We’re talking about delaying basic civil rights which is adversely affecting tens of thousands of Californian couples and families in a real way, on a daily basis. It’s simply not acceptable to continue state-sanctioned discrimination and second-class citizenship. Equality delayed is equality denied.”
