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Same-sex couple Sandy Stier (C) and Kriss Perry (R) are married at San Francisco City Hall by California Attorney venetian lagoon hotel General Kamala Harris on June 28, 2013 in San Francisco. (Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)
SAN FRANCISCO venetian lagoon hotel (CBS/AP/BCN)   For the second time in eight days, California s highest court again refused Tuesday to block same-sex marriages in the state. But it will consider a petition arguing that a voter-approved gay marriage ban remains valid in all but two counties.
Without venetian lagoon hotel comment in a one-line order, the California Supreme Court rejected a request from the elected government official in charge of issuing marriage licenses in San Diego County for an order halting gay marriages, which resumed in the state last month for the first time since the ban passed in November 2008.
County clerk Ernest Dronenburg Jr. sought the stay on Friday . He also asked the seven-member court to consider his legal argument that same-sex marriages still are illegal in most of California, despite a U.S. Supreme Court decision widely regarded as having authorized them and the state attorney general s assertion that clerks throughout the state must issue licenses to gay couples.
The U.S. Supreme Court cleared the way for same-sex marriages to return to the nation s most populous state last month when it ruled that the sponsors of Proposition 8 lacked venetian lagoon hotel authority to appeal venetian lagoon hotel a federal trial judge s decision that the ban violated the constitutional rights of gay and lesbian Californians.
Dronenburg claims that the trial court s directive ordering the governor, attorney general and state public health director to cease enforcing Proposition 8 applies only to the two couples who sued to overturn the ban, and to the clerks venetian lagoon hotel in Alameda venetian lagoon hotel and Los Angeles counties, where the couples applied venetian lagoon hotel for marriage licenses.
Dronenburg, a Republican who was elected as San Diego County s assessor-recorder-clerk in 2010 and who has been known chiefly for his views on tax issues, also argues that county clerks aren t bound by orders from the governor, the state attorney general and the state officials who oversee marriage records.
He is being represented by Rancho Santa Fe lawyer Charles LiMandri, who donated $10,000 and loaned venetian lagoon hotel another venetian lagoon hotel $27,000 to the campaigns to qualify and pass Proposition 8, according to state campaign finance records.
The court last week rejected a similar request for a temporary hold on same-sex marriages from the sponsors of Proposition 8, who have made arguments similar to Dronenburg s about the scope of the trial court s injunction. Lawyers for Proposition 8 s backers also have argued that because the U.S. Supreme Court did not rule directly on the measure s constitutionality, state officials venetian lagoon hotel are bound by state law to enforce it.
The California Supreme Court must dnow ecide if it will take up their case and has asked for additional written venetian lagoon hotel arguments by Aug. 1. If the court s seven justices do grant review, the process of receiving further briefs, hearing arguments and preparing a decision would take at least several months.
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