County Clerks Ready to Go After Supreme Court Refuses to Halt California Weddings

Written by L.A. Chung

It was a momentary cloud over the giddy, joyous weekend that resounded from the San Francisco Bay, over the pink triangle installed Friday on Twin Peaks to Ocean Beach in San Francisco. 

The sponsors of Prop. 8 filed an emergency petition with U.S. Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy, challenging the lifting of the stay on same-sex weddings by Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals Friday. The stay had been the last thing standing in the way of weddings resuming in California, following the U.S. Supreme Court's historic decision Wednesday that took no stand on the merits of California's ban on same-sex marriage, leaving a lower court's decision that overturned Proposition 8 to stand.

By Sunday morning, when Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy refused to hear that last-dich appeal to halt the weddings in California, the weekend of celebration was complete.

On Monday, San Mateo's County Clerk's Office in Redwood City will open at 8 a.m., the first full day of business since Friday afternoon's lifting of the stay.

Residents wishing to obtain their marriage licenses in San Mateo County can prepare by making sure they have the requisite information at the ready, and have filled out an online form ahead of time.