As reported by SCOTUS Blog, on July 9 U.S. Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito denied an application for a stay filed by a Pennsylvania clerk of courts. The applicant was seeking to intervene in a lawsuit decided by a district court in order to appeal the district court's invalidation of Pennsylvania's ban on same-sex marriage. State officials had declined to appeal. The Supreme Court's docket entry in Santai-Gaffney v. Whitewood denying the application to intervene cited the Court's denial of a stay last month in an attempt by the National Organization for Marriage to intervene to appeal the invalidation of Oregon's same-sex marriage ban.
