The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals today again slapped the hands of Imperial County Clerk Chuck Storey and his ill-fated attempts to intervene as a defendant-appellant in the Proposition 8 case known as Perry v. Brown.
On Feb. 7, the same day the Ninth Circuit made its big ruling affirming the unconstitutionality of California’s Proposition 8, the panel rejected an attempt by Storey, representing Imperial County, to intervene in the historic case.
Today, Judges Stephen R. Reinhard, Michael Daly Hawkins and N. Randy Smith, ruled that Storey is not entitled to petition for rehearing.
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Chuck Storey ran for county clerk-recorder in a remote, desert corner of southeast California on a pledge to run a lean operation in churning out government documents like property deeds, birth certificates and marriage licenses. “Imperial County needs a businessman,” he said during last year’s campaign.
The battle to uphold Proposition 8′s restrictions against gay marriage found new support from a Murrieta-based nonprofit law firm.
