On June 30, U.S. Supreme Court Justice Anthony M. Kennedy turned down a request to stop same-sex marriages from occurring in California, according to SCOTUSBlog.com .
The previous day, lawyers for groups opposed to marriage equality petitioned to reverse the June 28 ruling from the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, which lifted its stay of the Federal District Court decision that found Proposition 8 unconstitutional, CNN.com reported.
Attorneys applied June 29 to the U.S. Supreme Court for "an immediate order vacating" the June 28 decision, according to copies of the document from ProtectMarriage.com and the Alliance Defending Freedom.
With marriage equality restored in California, the plaintiffs who successfully challenged California's Proposition 8 in Hollingsworth v. Perry were married June 28.
Plaintiffs Kris Perry and Sandy Stier of Berkeley, Calif., were married at City Hall in San Francisco, according to a press release from the American Foundation for Equal Righs (AFER). They were the first same-sex couple to be married in California post-Prop 8. Also, plaintiffs Paul Katami and Jeff Zarrillo of Burbank, Calif., married at City Hall in Los Angeles; Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa officiated.
In the statement Perry said, "We look forward to spending the rest of our lives together. Yet we will never forget this daythe day the freedom to marry was restored to our home state."
California's Supreme Court struck down the state's ban on same-sex marriage in May 2008. However, months later, 52 percent of voters backed Prop 8 to once again restrict marriages to opposite-sex couples.