United States Ninth Circuit

In an action challenging the constitutionality of Proposition 8, a California ballot initiative restricting the definition of marriage to the union of a man and a woman, denial of a prospective intervenor's application to intervene is affirmed where the existing parties would adequately represent its interests.

Appellate Information

• Argued 11/04/2009
• Decided 11/19/2009
• Published 11/19/2009

Judges

• McKEOWN, Circuit Judge:, Before: PAMELA ANN RYMER, M. MARGARET McKEOWN and N. RANDY SMITH, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Ninth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Mary E. McAlister and Mathew D. Staver, Liberty Counsel, Lynchburg, VA, for the intervenor-appellant.


• For Appellees:
  
• Matthew D. McGill and Theodore B. Olson, Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP, Washington, DC, for plaintiffs-appellees., Charles J. Cooper and Howard C. Nielson, Cooper and Kirk, PLLC, Washington, DC, for intervenor-appellees.