Inside Prop 8 Baseball

There are a lot of complicated legal issues within the Prop 8 case. The Bay Area Reporter unpacks the bag of issues and scenarios:

Foremost among the lawyerly wrangling is whether the backers of Proposition 8, the voter-approved ban against same-sex marriage, have standing to bring forth an appeal of Chief U.S. District Court Judge Vaughn Walker's ruling striking down the ballot initiative. In a stinging rebuke to Prop 8's supporters, Walker found that they had failed to "advance any rational basis in singling out gay men and lesbians for denial of a marriage license."

The attorneys for Protectmarriage.com, the group behind the Prop 8 campaign, have already notified the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals they intend to appeal Walker's decision. Yet there is some question as to whether they can indeed carry the fight to the appellate level.