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1. Proposition 8, California’s anti-gay-marriage law, is back in court today for a pivotal hearing that could decide whether same-sex couples can start getting married again. The hearing, in front of the state Supreme Court, centers on the question of whether gay marriage opponents have the legal right to defend Prop 8 in federal appellate courts. The federal courts have said that only the California Supreme Court can decide the issue. Opponents of gay marriage took up the cause of defending Prop 8 after then-California Attorney General Jerry Brown and then-Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger refused to do so. If the state Supreme Court says that gay-marriage opponents cannot defend Prop 8, then it likely will pave the way for same-sex weddings to resume.
