Even if the law is interpreted in favor of overturning Proposition 8, I suspect the ruling will be limited to the issues at law as defined in California.

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The Arizona proposition was enacted into law with 55 percent of the vote.

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The second case could deliver a final ruling on an ongoing legal wrangle over a gay marriage ban in the state of California, a law known as Proposition 8.

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The New York Times quotes indefatigable tax professor Paul Caron of the University of Cincinnati Law School for the unhappy proposition that Lopez should report all the goodies he collected.

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The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals allowed a group of private citizens, proponents of the proposition, to step in and defend the law in court.

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Nonetheless, an oast house is a charming proposition for lovers of historic buildings many are protected by law thanks to their historic and architectural importance.

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But it is a nice object lesson in the basic economic proposition first put forward by David Ricardo as the Iron Law of One Price.

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In a response, a representative for Whole Foods denied that any of its products represented health risks, citing standards that were set forth in California's Proposition 65, a state law setting clean-water standards that includes a list of carcinogens.

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In Hollingsworth, the Proposition 8 case, the state of California has declined to defend the state's own law.

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