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Tenth Circuit Court DENIES Marriage Stay In Xmas Eve Order, Utah To Appeal to SCOTUSby Will Kohler |
The 10th Circuit Court of Appeals has AGAIN denied the state of Utah’s request to stop same-sex couples’ marriages in Utah. “Having
considered the district court’s decision and the parties’ arguments
concerning the stay factors, we conclude that a stay is not warranted,” Judges Jerome Holmes and Robert Bacharach wrote in an order signed by court clerk Elisabeth Shumaker for the court.
The
denial means that a Friday decision by Judge Robert Shelby striking
down the state’s ban on same-sex couples marrying will remain in place,
for now.
But
Mormon and GOP controlled Utah refuses to give up and the state plans
to appeal to the high court Thursday, seeking an immediate stop to gay
and lesbian couples from being granted marriage licenses.
Each circuit court is assigned to a particular Supreme Court justice for appeals. Utah will appeal to Justice Sonia Sotomayor.
Sotomayor will have the option of considering the state's request
herself or referring it to the full court. If she considers and denies
the state's request for a stay, Utah's last option would be to appeal to
the full Supreme Court.
Legal
experts predict that the chances of getting a stay from Justice
Sotomayort are slim to none after the rulings from the two lower courts
that already refused to stop same-sex marriages in Utah.
Sonia Sotomayor was also in the majority of striking down the key section of the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA), the misnamed anti-gay-marriage law enacted almost seventeen years ago .
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