GAY MARRIAGE

CALIFORNIA

| San Francisco — Less than 24 hours after California started issuing marriage licenses to same-sex couples, lawyers for the sponsors of the state’s gay marriage ban filed an emergency motion Saturday asking the U.S. Supreme Court to step in and stop the weddings. Attorneys with the Arizona-based Alliance Defending Freedom claim in the petition that the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals acted prematurely and unfairly on Friday when it allowed gay marriage to resume by lifting a hold it had placed on same-sex unions while a lawsuit challenging the ban made its way to and through the Supreme Court. Alliance Defending Freedom Senior Counsel Austin Nimocks said a three-judge 9th Circuit panel acted prematurely and unfairly when it lifted a hold on same-sex marriages it had put in place while a legal challenge to the voter-approved ban made its way through the courts. Nimocks said the Supreme Court’s consideration of the case is not done yet. near the top of a glacier. Oregon Army National Guard Black Hawk helicopter crews made the discovery at an altitude of about 8,400 feet, the Clackamas County Sheriff ’s Office said in a news release. Officials believe there’s a high probability that the body belongs to Kinley Adams, 59, a Salem dentist who failed to return June 22 from a climb on the west side of Oregon’s tallest mountain. The terrain is extremely difficult and authorities won’t be able to immediately get to the body. Recovery teams will try to reach the body early Sunday.