The trial court judge in California who has taken over hearing the federal court case challenging Proposition 8, the state's amendment limiting marriages to one man and one woman, ordered the case closed today — which would allow same-sex couples to marry in California.
[UPDATE: A stay of the case by the Ninth Circuit pending the Supreme Court's determination of whether it takes the case means that a "mandate" will not issue allowing Ware's order today to go into effect.]
The order comes despite the fact that proponents of Proposition 8 have requested the Supreme Court to review the case because, Judge James Ware wrote today, all requests to stay the judgment in the case have been denied. [Correction: A stay of the case pending the appeal was granted by the Ninth Circuit.]
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