PERRY v. BROWN

No. S189476.

52 Cal.4th 1116 (2011)

KRISTIN M. PERRY et al., Plaintiffs and Respondents, v. EDMUND G. BROWN, JR., as Governor, etc., et al., Defendants; CITY AND COUNTY OF SAN FRANCISCO, Intervener and Respondent; DENNIS HOLLINGSWORTH et al., Interveners and Appellants.

Supreme Court of California.

November 17, 2011.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Law Offices of Andrew P. Pugno, Andrew P. Pugno ; Alliance Defense Fund, Brian W. Raum , James A. Campbell ; Cooper & Kirk, Charles J. Cooper , David H. Thompson , Howard C. Neilson, Jr. , Nicole Jo Moss and Peter A. Patterson for Interveners and Appellants.

Edwin Meese III ; John C. Eastman and Karen J. Lugo for Center for Constitutional Jurisprudence as Amicus Curiae on behalf of Interveners and Appellants.

Sharon L. Browne , Harold E. Johnson and Damien M. Schiff for Pacific Legal Foundation, Ward Connerly , Glynn Custred , Ron Unz and Howard Jarvis Taxpayers Association as Amici Curiae on behalf of Interveners and Appellants.

Pacific Justice Institute, Kevin T. Snider , Matthew B. McReynolds and Kelley A. Way for Dr. Joshua Beckley as Amicus Curiae on behalf of Interveners and Appellants.

James Joseph Lynch, Jr. , for Margie Reilly as Amicus Curiae on behalf of Interveners and Appellants.

Julie B. Axelrod for Judicial Watch, Inc., as Amicus Curiae on behalf of Interveners and Appellants.

Boies, Schiller & Flexner, David Boies , Jeremy M. Goldman , Theodore H. Uno ; Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher, Theodore B. Olson , Matthew D. McGill , Amir C. Tayrani , Theodore J. Boutrous, Jr. , Christopher D. Dusseault and Enrique A. Monagas for Plaintiffs and Respondents.

Kendall Brill & Klieger, Laura W. Brill , Nicholas F. Daum , Clifford S. Davidson and Ashlee R. Lynn for Jon B. Eisenberg and Professor Laurie L. Levenson as Amici Curiae on behalf of Plaintiffs and Respondents.

Miguel Márquez , County Counsel (Santa Clara), Lori E. Pegg , Assistant County Counsel, Juniper L. Downs , Acting Lead Deputy County Counsel, Jenny S. Yelin , Impact Litigation Fellow; Atchison, Barisone, Condotti & Kovacevich, John G. Barisone , City Attorney (Santa Cruz); John A. Russo , City Attorney (Oakland), Barbara J. Parker , Chief Assistant City Attorney; John C. Beiers , County Counsel (Orange), Glenn M. Levy , Deputy County Counsel; Eric Danly ; Dana McRae , County Counsel (Santa Cruz); and Bruce D. Goldstein , County Counsel (Sonoma), for County of Santa Clara, County of Santa Cruz, City of Oakland, City of Cloverdale, County of San Mateo, City of Santa Cruz and County of Sonoma as Amici Curiae on behalf of Plaintiffs and Respondents.

Dennis J. Herrera , City Attorney, Therese M. Stewart , Chief Deputy City Attorney, Danny Chou , Chief of Complex and Special Litigation, Vince Chhabria , Mollie M. Lee and Christine Van Aken , Deputy City Attorneys, for Intervener and Respondent.

Caldwell Leslie & Proctor, David C. Codell , Albert Giang , Alastair Agcaoili ; Shannon P. Minter ; and Jon W. Davidson for Equality California, National Center for Lesbian Rights and Lambda Legal Defense and Education Fund, Inc., as Amici Curiae on behalf of Intervener and Respondent.

Greines, Martin, Stein & Richland, Robin Meadow and Cynthia E. Tobisman for League of Women Voters of California as Amicus Curiae on behalf of Intervener and Respondent.

Eric Alan Isaacson ; Susan Kay Weaver ; Stacey M. Kaplan ; and Silvio Nardoni for California Faith for Equality, California Council of Churches, General Synod of the United Church of Christ, Universal Fellowship of Metropolitan Community Churches, The Episcopal Bishops of California and Los Angeles, Progressive Jewish Alliance, Pacific Association of Reform Rabbis, Unitarian Universalist Association and Unitarian Universalist Legislative Ministry California as Amici Curiae on behalf of Intervener and Respondent.

Kamala D. Harris , Attorney General, Manuel M. Medeiros , State Solicitor General, David Chaney , Chief Assistant Attorney General, Douglas J. Woods , Acting Assistant Attorney General, Michael Troncoso , Senior Counsel, Constance L. LeLouis and Tamar Pachter , Deputy Attorneys General, as Amici Curiae.


OPINION

CANTIL-SAKAUYE, C. J.

At the request of the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, we agreed to decide a question of California law that is relevant to the underlying lawsuit in this matter now pending in that federal appellate court. (Perry v. Brown (9th Cir., No. 10-16696); see Cal. Rules of Court, rule 8.548.) As posed by the Ninth Circuit, the question to be decided is "[w]hether under article II, section...

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