{"id":12322,"date":"2010-08-14T19:52:27","date_gmt":"2010-08-14T19:52:27","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2010-08-14T19:52:27","modified_gmt":"2010-08-14T19:52:27","slug":"prop-8-plaintiffs-argue-against-9th-circuit-stay","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/2010\/08\/14\/prop-8-plaintiffs-argue-against-9th-circuit-stay\/","title":{"rendered":"Prop 8 Plaintiffs Argue Against 9th Circuit Stay"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Late yesterday, the legal team behind the Prop 8 Challenge filed <a href=\"http:\/\/www.equalrightsfoundation.org\/legal-filings\/plaintiffs-opposition-to-motion-to-stay\/\">their response to the Motion for Emergency Stay.<\/a>. You can see the full document over the flip. Nothing too surprising here. The plaintiffs basically went through the four factors for a stay, and showed that the burden has not been met.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The Plaintiffs&#8217; motion specifically argues that:<\/p>\n<p>\u00b7 &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;Proponents cannot possibly make a &#8220;strong showing&#8221; that they are likely to prevail in their appeal.<\/p>\n<p>\u00b7 &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;There is significant question as to whether Proponents even have standing to pursue an appeal.<\/p>\n<p>\u00b7 &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;Proponents have failed to establish that they will likely suffer irreparable injury in the absence of a stay.<\/p>\n<p>\u00b7 &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;A stay will cause substantial irreparable harm to Plaintiffs.<\/p>\n<p>\u00b7 &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;The public interest favors immediate enforcement of the judgment.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The deadline, as you probably recall, is August 18 at 5pm. &nbsp;If the 9th Circuit declines to issue a stay or simply does not do anything by then, counties will be able to issue marriage licenses to same sex-couples.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.scribd.com\/doc\/35874817\/CA9Doc-9\">CA9Doc 9<\/a> <object id=\"doc_731147864463715\" name=\"doc_731147864463715\" height=\"500\" width=\"100%\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" data=\"http:\/\/d1.scribdassets.com\/ScribdViewer.swf\" style=\"outline:none;\" ><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/d1.scribdassets.com\/ScribdViewer.swf\"><param name=\"wmode\" value=\"opaque\"><param name=\"bgcolor\" value=\"#ffffff\"><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><param name=\"allowScriptAccess\" value=\"always\"><param name=\"FlashVars\" value=\"document_id=35874817&#038;access_key=key-awv8eigqwsgpva2334c&#038;page=1&#038;viewMode=list\"><\/param><\/param><\/param><\/param><\/param><\/param><\/object>\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Late yesterday, the legal team behind the Prop 8 Challenge filed <a href=\"http:\/\/www.equalrightsfoundation.org\/legal-filings\/plaintiffs-opposition-to-motion-to-stay\/\">their response to the Motion for Emergency Stay.<\/a>. You can see the full document over the flip. Nothing too surprising here. The plaintiffs basically went through the four factors for a stay, and showed that the burden has not been met.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The Plaintiffs&#8217; motion specifically argues that:<\/p>\n<p>\u00b7 &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;Proponents cannot possibly make a &#8220;strong showing&#8221; that they are likely to prevail in their appeal.<\/p>\n<p>\u00b7 &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;There is significant question as to whether Proponents even have standing to pursue an appeal.<\/p>\n<p>\u00b7 &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;Proponents have failed to establish that they will likely suffer irreparable injury in the absence of a stay.<\/p>\n<p>\u00b7 &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;A stay will cause substantial irreparable harm to Plaintiffs.<\/p>\n<p>\u00b7 &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;The public interest favors immediate enforcement of the judgment.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The deadline, as you probably recall, is August 18 at 5pm. &nbsp;If the 9th Circuit declines to issue a stay or simply does not do anything by then, counties will be able to issue marriage licenses to same sex-couples.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1608],"tags":[537,5576],"class_list":["post-12322","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-1608","tag-537","tag-5576"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6Pvhz-3cK","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12322","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12322"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12322\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12322"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12322"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12322"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}