A ruling of this kind would likely still mean a return of same-sex-marriage rights in California — but there would be no wider precedent.
The apparent net effect will be the return of same-sex marriage to California, if the opinion is interpreted, as most believe it will be, by California officials (although it may take time to see exactly how this plays out).
8 case, the Court's likely procedural ruling, accompanied by a return of same-sex marriage to California (it was legal there for about four months before the ban), will certainly be an important legal victory.
And today the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco made an important move in its big gay-marriage case, declining further action (called "en banc" review) of the California Proposition 8 litigation, letting stand its previous ruling in favor of those seeking the return of same-sex marriage rights in that state.
Rally attendees, including incoming Los Angeles city controller Ron Galperin, discuss their joyous reactions to the rulings and the return of same-sex marriage rights in California.
Yet the results they delivered were much the same as before: a low turnout amid widespread fraud, and the return of the same president and party that have ruled for a quarter of a century.It is true that the opposition, most significantly the Muslim Brotherhood, won an unprecedented fifth of parliament's seats.
How entire centuries are recalled in the return of the same weary dust.
It seems that the eternal return of the same may bring peace and reconciliation, but at least in this case not intensity.
And he called the return of the same governing coalition "a huge failure," especially after negotiations over a new government that had gone on for about eight months.
"It's the eternal return of the same," said Eric Fassin, a sociologist at the École Normale Supérieure in Paris, who studies French-American relations.
