California Supreme Court Rejects Last Ditch Effort To Enforce Proposition 8

As reported by the Los Angeles Times, the California Supreme Court yesterday denied the petition for a writ of mandate that was filed last month seeking to require county clerks in the state to enforce Proposition 8's ban on same-sex marriages, despite the U.S. Supreme Court's decision in June in Hollingsworth v. Perry.  The state supreme court's Aug. 14 order (full text) in Hollingsworth v. O'Connell did not give reasons for the denial of the writ of mandate. Petitioners had argued (see prior posting) that the injunction in Hollingsworth v. Perry (see prior posting) should be read narrowly to cover only the specific plaintiffs or specific counties involved in the case.