Business was brisk at Los Angeles County Clerk's offices Monday, as same-sex couples scrambled to get married, with the blessing of the federal court system.
According to Dean Logan, the county registrar-recorder/county clerk, more than 500 couples completed online marriage license applications between 4 p.m. Friday, when a federal appeals court lifted a stay and allowed same-sex weddings to resume in California, and Monday.
The decision by the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals came two days after the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that proponents of Proposition 8 -- which banned same-sex weddings in California -- did not have legal standing to appeal a federal judge's ruling that the measure was unconstitutional.
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Anticipating a crush of same-sex couples anxious to wed, the main Los Angeles County Registrar-Recorder/County Clerk's Office in Norwalk remain open until 7 p.m. Monday, and will do so today. A long line of people showed up at the start of business Monday. Logan himself officiated over the first same-sex ceremony of the day at the office.
On Saturday, a group of conservative legal experts filed an emergency request asking the U.S. Supreme Court to stop the same-sex weddings, claiming the court's decision on Proposition 8 would not become legally final until the passage of a 25-day period when parties to the case can ask for reconsideration. Justice Anthony Kennedy, however, rejected the request Sunday without comment.
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--City News Service
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