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Attorney General Bill Lockyer asked the Supreme Court to take up the case. Their lawsuit against the Clerk's Office, filed in April 1993, was the first case challenging California's laws on similar-intercourse marriage. Additionally, the California state agency that data marriages acknowledged that altered varieties, including any marriage license issued to same-intercourse couples, would not be registered. Of those same-intercourse marriage licenses issued, 82 couples both decided to not undergo with a marriage or did not register their marriage with the county earlier than the California Supreme Court keep was issued, which means 3,955 accomplished same-sex marriages have been registered within the county. His spokesman introduced he was sending letters to the governors and attorneys normal of the opposite states to elucidate his view that very same-sex marriage was not legal in their state and asking "if we're fallacious" about that. On Wednesday, November 5, 2008, three lawsuits have been filed, difficult the validity of Proposition eight on the grounds that revoking the appropriate of similar-intercourse couples to marry was a constitutional "revision" reasonably than an "amendment", and subsequently required the prior approval of two-thirds of every home of the California State Legislature. The California Supreme Court heard several challenges to Proposition eight and on May 26, 2009 upheld the proposition but didn't overturn previous identical-sex marriages which occurred following their ruling in June 2008 and earlier than November 5, 2008. Same-sex marriage supporters thought-about trying to get another ballot initiative to repeal Proposition eight on the ballot within the 2012 election, however determined to attend. |
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