Prop 8 supporters request stay in event of adverse ruling

SCOTUSblog: “U.S. District Court Judge Vaughn R. Walker will release later Wednesday his ruling in Perry v. Schwarzenegger, the federal constitutional challenge to California’s ‘Proposition 8′ ban on same-sex marriage, the Court in San Francisco announced Tuesday (docket 09-2292) . . . Simultaneously, the proponents asked Judge Walker to rule on their stay request at the same time he issued his ruling on the merits Wednesday. Under local court rules, it could be more than a month before the stay request might be acted upon, and the Proposition 8 backers argued that same-sex marriages could be performed during such an interval.”