Editor's Note :

On Monday, we expect orders from the May 17 Conference as well as opinions in argued cases. We also expect opinions on Thursday. We will be live blogging both days beginning shortly before ten o'clock.
Our list of "Petitions to watch" for the May 17 Conference is here.

Lyle Denniston Reporter

Posted Mon, November 29th, 2010 12:45 pm

Judges for Prop. 8 hearing

The Ninth Circuit Court on Monday released the names of the three Circuit judges who will hear next Monday the constitutional case over California’s Proposition 8 ban on same-sex marriage.  The senior judge on the panel will be Judge Stephen R. Reinhardt, a former Los Angeles lawyer who is known widely as perhaps the most liberal judge on the federal courts.  Another judge with a reputation mainly as a liberal, Michael Daly Hawkins, is on the panel; he is a former Arizona lawyer and prosecutor.  The third member of the panel will be N. Randy Smith, a former Idaho lawyer and state judge.

The case is scheduled for a two-hour hearing beginning at 10 a.m. Pacific time (1 p.m. Eastern time) on Dec. 6.  The blog plans to provide a link to the broadcast coverage of the oral argument.

Posted in Cases in the Pipeline

Recommended Citation: Lyle Denniston, Judges for Prop. 8 hearing, SCOTUSblog (Nov. 29, 2010, 12:45 PM), http://www.scotusblog.com/2010/11/judges-for-prop-8-hearing/