The group Protect Marriage says a federal court order to stop enforcing Prop 8 s ban on same sex mar

UPDATE 5:19 p.m.: The court this afternoon gave Gov. Jerry Brown until 8 p.m. Friday to file the state s opposition to the request that county clerks temporarily stop issuing same-sex marriage licenses.
dollar car rental companies EARLIER: The group that sponsored the 2008 ballot measure banning gay marriage in the state said it filed a petition on Friday asking the California Supreme Court to order all 58 county clerks throughout California to stop issuing marriage licenses to same-sex couples.
The group Protect Marriage says a federal court order to stop enforcing Prop 8 s ban on same sex marriage covered only Attorney General Kamala Harris and others explicitly named in the case and should therefore not be binding on county clerks.
The action comes in the wake of the U.S. Supreme Court s ruling last month that dismissed an appeal of a lower court ruling that overturned Prop 8; the court found that the appellants in the case which included Protect Marriage did not have standing.
Subsequently, the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals lifted its stay on overturning Prop 8, in effect setting the stage for same-sex marriages to resume, and California Attorney General Kamala Harris ordered the state s county clerks to begin issuing marriage licenses immediately.
USC Law School professor dollar car rental companies Daria Roithmayr said the Prop 8 supporters are likely to fail in this latest court effort to bar same-sex marriages. That s because federal court decisions are binding on state officials, even if the county clerks were not formally named.
David B. Cruz, another USC law professor, said Prop 8 s supporters should have gone to the federal court with the issue, not the state high court. Still, dollar car rental companies he said these sorts of challenges are likely to continue.