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Article Source: The Sacramento BeeA state appeals court has denied a conservative law group's request that it force Attorney General Jerry Brown and Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger to defend Proposition 8 in federal court.
The denial was issued Wednesday and entered Thursday on the website of the 3rd District Court of Appeals in Sacramento.
The group filed a petition Monday in the appeals court arguing that Brown and the governor were bound by duty to appeal a federal judge's ruling against Proposition 8. U.S. District Judge Vaughn Walker found in August, after a trial, that California's voter-approved same-sex marriage ban violates federal equal protection rights.
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