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Professor Pamela Karlan is quoted in the Sacramento Bee on the 9th circuit panel that will review Judge Vaughn Walker's ruling and the evidence presented in the Proposition 8 trial. David Siders and Peter Hecht report:
Gay couples hoping to marry in California will have to wait until next week - and possibly even longer - after a judge declined Thursday to immediately impose his ruling that Proposition 8 is unconstitutional.
Defenders of the measure quickly began working to obtain a stay from a higher court that would prevent marriages until the courts act on their appeal, a process that could take a year or more.
U.S. District Judge Vaughn R. Walker declined to issue a permanent stay on his landmark overturning of Proposition 8, California's gay marriage ban.
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Pamela Karlan, a professor at Stanford Law School, said there are a broad range of judges from whom the panel members will be picked, "some of them probably more inclined to grant a stay than others."