“I don’t think it’s at all a foregone conclusion that everyone gets to benefit,” said Tobias Wolff, a University of Pennsylvania law professor who has spent months puzzling over the various scenarios, adding that it’s going to take a lot more work before there is a final answer.Įach scenario is likely to produce more legal and political wrangling.
Some experts say a court decision, expected in June, would allow marriages to resume statewide soon afterward, while others argue a ruling could be limited and only affect the original two plaintiffs and residents of counties where they live. How that happens and how long it would take remain open to interpretation. The high court’s forthcoming ruling is likely to allow same-sex marriages to resume in California more than four years after gays and lesbians first won the right to wed in the state courts and lost it a few months later at the ballot box, legal experts and lawyers involved in the case said.
Supreme Court seems reluctant to use the legal battle over California’s same-sex marriage ban to rule that all gay Americans have a constitutional right to wed, but that doesn’t mean gay marriage will not be returning to the state.
