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. In re Marriage Cases, California Supreme Court Opinion, May 15, 2008
In Lockyer v. City and County of San Francisco (2004) 33 Cal.4th 1055 (Lockyer), this court concluded that public officials of the City and County of San Francisco acted unlawfully by issuing marriage licenses to same-sex couples in the absence of a judicial determination that the California statutes limiting marriage to a union between a man and a woman are unconstitutional. Our decision in Lockyer emphasized, however, that the substantive question of the constitutional validity of the California marriage statutes was not before this court in that proceeding, and that our decision was not intended to reflect any view on that issue. (Id. at p. 1069; see also id. at p. 1125 (conc. opn. of Moreno, J.); id. at pp. 1132-1133 (conc. & dis. opn. of Kennard, J.); id. at p. 1133 (conc. & dis. opn. of Werdegar, J.).) The present proceeding, involving the consolidated appeal of six cases that were litigated in the superior court and the Court of Appeal in the wake of this court’s decision in Lockyer, squarely presents the substantive constitutional question that was not addressed in Lockyer. Read more…

. Court Announces Countywide Changes in Procedure for Documents Presented for Immediate Filing, May 14, 2008
Effective Monday, June 2, 2008, in order to accommodate the number of customers who present a large quantity of documents at one time for processing, a maximum of 10 documents (not cases) per person, will be processed upon receipt by the clerk. Read more…

. Letter to California State Budget Committee
On April 17, 2008, the Board of Trustees of the Desert Bar Association unanimously resolved and authorized that this correspondence be sent to you, by which we wish to show our complete and full support for any and all pending measures that would address the tremendous problems related to the ongoing shortage of judicial officers in Riverside County. Also enclosed, please find a more formal "Resolution" in this regard.

. April 2008 Resolution of the Board of Trustees
A resolution of the Board of Trustees of the Desert Bar Association in support of additional judges being allotted to Riverside County