Six separate legal challenges now pending against Prop. 8

Mercury News reports: “A women’s rights group Monday filed the latest legal challenge to the measure, arguing that allowing such a change to the California Constitution could lead to stripping women and minorities of legal rights. A coalition of religious groups, led by the California Council of Churches, also sued separately Monday to block the law. All six challenges argue that Proposition 8 was an improper method of changing the California Constitution and flouted the Supreme Court’s ruling last year striking down the state’s prior ban on gay marriage.”

California Council of Churches: Petition for Writ of Mandate / Press Release
Equal Rights Advocates and California Women’s Law Center: Petition for Writ of Mandate / Motion for Judicial Notice / Press Release