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QUESTION PRESENTED

Should the Ninth Circuit's decision denying a

petition for a writ of mandamus to halt the district

court's enforcement of its order be vacated and the

case be remanded to the court of appeals with instructions to dismiss in accordance with United

States v. Munsingwear, Inc., 340 U.S. 36 (1950)?

RESPONSE TO PETITIONERS' PETITION FOR A WRIT OF CERTIORARI

Respondents Arnold Schwarzenegger in his
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offcial capacity as Governor of California; Mark B.

Horton, in his official capacity as Director of the California Department of Public Health and State
Registrar of Vital Statistics; and Linette Scott in her

offcial capacity as Deputy Director of Health

Information & Strategic Planning for the California

Department of Public Health, collectively (the "Administration Defendants"); do hereby respond to

Petitioners' Petition for Writ of Certiorari as follows:

The Administration Defendants took no position

on whether the trial proceedings in this matter

should be publicly broadcast. In addition, the
Administration Defendants did not participate in any of the proceedings before the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit on this issue.
Accordingly, the Administration Defendants nei-

ther oppose, support, nor take any position as to

Petitioners' request that this Cour grant their writ of
certiorari for purposes of vacating the Ninth Circuit's

order denying their petition for writ of mandamus,

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and remanding to the Ninth Circuit with instructions to dismiss the mandamus petition as moot.
Respectfully submitted,
ANREw W. STROUD MENNMEIER, GLASMA & STROUDLLP

Counsel of Record for

Administration Defendants

980 9th Street, Suite 1700 Sacramento, CA 95814 (916) 553-4000

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DENNIS HOLLINGSWORTH, et aI., Petitioners,

v.

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA, et aI., Respondents.

AFFIDAVIT OF SERVICE
I, Patricia Billotte, of lawful age, being duly sworn, upon my oath state that I did, on the 30th day of June, 2010, send out from Omaha, NE 13 package(s) containing 3 copies of the RESPONSE TO PETITIONERS' PETITION FOR A WRIT OF
CERTIORARI in the above entitled case. All parties required

to be served have been served by third-part commercial

carrier for delivery within 3 calendar days. Packages were plainly addressed to the following:
SEE ATTACHED

To be fied for:
Andrew W. Stroud Mennemeier, Glassman & StroudLLP Counsel of Record for Administration Defendants
980 9th Street, Suite 1700

Sacramento, CA 95814 (916) 553-4000 Stroud(fmgslaw.com

1 am duly authorized under the laws of

Subscribed and sworn to before me this 30th day of June, 2010. the State of Nebraska to administer oaths.

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SERVICE LIST
Attorneys for Gail J. Knight, Martin F. Gutierrez, Hak-Shing Willam Tam,
Mark A. Jansson, And Protectmarriage. Com - Yes On 8, A
Project Of

California Renewal

COOPER AND KIRK, PLLC Charles J. Cooper David H. Thompson Howard C. Nielson, Jr. Nicole J. Moss Peter A. Patterson 1523 New Hampshire Avenue, NW Washington, D.C. 20036 (202) 220-9600
LA W OFFICES OF ANDREW P. PUGNO

Andrew P. Pugno
101 Parkshore Drive, Suite 100

Folsom, CA 95630 (916) 608-3065

ALLIANCE DEFENSE FUND Brian W. Raum James A. Campbell

15 100 North 90th Street

Scottsdale, AZ 85260 (480) 444-0020

ALLIANCE DEFENSE FUND Timothy Chandler

101 Parkshore Drive, Suite 100

Folsom, CA 95630 (916) 932-2850

Jordan W. Lorence Austin R. Nimocks 801 G Street NW, Suite 509 Washington, D.C. 20001 (202) 393-8690
Attorneys for Defendant Attorney General

Edmund G. Brown, Jr.

Tamar Pachter
Gordon Burns

OFFICE OF THE ATTORNEY GENERA

1300 I Street, Suite 125 P.O. Box 944255 (zip 94244-2550) Sacramento, CA 95814-2951 (415) 703-5970

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Attorneysfor PlaintifIntervenor City and County

of San Francisco

Therese M. Stewart Dennis 1. Herrera OFFICE OF THE CITY ATTORNEY City Hall, Room 234 One Dr. Carlon B. Goodlett Place San Francisco, CA 94102-4682 (415) 554-4748
Attorneys for Defendant Dean C. Logan Registrar-Recorder/County Clerk, County of Los Angeles

Elizabeth M. Cortez
Judy W. Whitehurts

THE OFFICE OF CITY COUNSEL 648 Kenneth Hahn Hall of Administration 500 West Temple Street Los Angeles, CA 90012-2713 (213) 974-1921

Attorneysfor Defendant Patrick O'Connell

Clerk Recorder of the County of Alameda

Claude F. Kolm Richard E Winnie Brian E. Washington

Manuel F. Martinez

THE OFFICE OF CITY COUNSEL

i 221 Oak Street, Suite 450

Oakland, CA 94612 (510) 272-6700

Attorneysfor Plaintif Kristin M Perry

Ted Olson

Matthew McGill

Amir Tayrani

GIBSON, DUN & CRUTCHER LLP

1050 Connecticut Avenue, NW Washington, D.C. 20036-5306 (202) 955-8500

SERVICE LIST
Theodore Boustrous, Jr. Christopher Dusseault Theane Kapur

GIBSON, DUN & CRUTCHER LLP

333 South Grand Avenue

Los Angeles, CA 90072-1512 (213) 229-7000

Ethan Dettmer

Enrique Monagas

GIBSON, DUN & CRUTCHER LLP 555 Mission Street, Suite 3000
San Francisco, CA 94105 (415) 393-8200
Theodore Uno

BOIES, SCHILLER & FLEXNER LLP 1999 Harrison Street, Suite 900 Oakland, CA 94612 (510) 874-1000

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DENNIS HOLLINGSWORTH, et aI., Petitioners,

v.

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA, et aI., Respondents.

CERTIFICATE OF COMPLIANCE

As required by Supreme Cour Rule 33.1(h), I certify that the RESPONSE TO

PETITIONERS' PETITION FOR A WRIT OF CERTIORARI in the above entitled case complies

with the typeface requirement of Supreme Cour Rule 33.l(b), being prepared in New Centur
Schoolbook 12 point for the text and 10 point for the footnotes, and this brief contains 207 words,
excluding the parts that are exempted by Supreme Court Rule 33.1(d), as needed.

I am duly authorized under the laws ofthe State of

Subscribed and sworn to before me this 30th day of June, 2010. Nebraska to administer oaths.

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