Before oral argument in the California Proposition 8 gay marriage case, Georgetown law professor Marty Lederman wrote a post outlining five possible options before the Court; I commented on it here. Since the argument, Lederman believes the number of possible options has grown to seven, as he outlines in this interesting post. The two new options are that “the Court might dismiss the petition as improvidently granted – a “DIG”; or that the Court could vacate the court of appeals’ decision and remand the case for reconsideration in light of whatever the Court does in Windsor, the DOMA case.”
Like most commentators, Lederman predicts there is a substantial likelihood that the justices will dismiss the case for lack of standing. Like me, he still believes there is a good chance the Court will strike down Proposition 8’s ban on same-sex marriage if the justices do make a decision on the merits.