COURT WON'T BLOCK CALIF. DOMESTIC PARTNERSHIP LAW: From the San Francisco Chronicle

A state appeals court refused late Tuesday to stop California's domestic partners law taking effect next week, a move that keeps more than 25,000 same-sex partnerships on track to be recognized by the state Jan. 1.

The order by Presiding Justice Arthur Scotland of the Court of Appeal in Sacramento denied an attempt to block the law signed by Gov. Gray Davis in 2003, which will grant same-sex couples nearly all of the legal rights and responsibilities married couples have in California.

Among them: the rights of community property, shared child custody and the right to collect a dead partner's remains, as well as joint responsibility for debt to third parties and child support obligations. Scotland's ruling did not turn back challenges to the pending law, which was affirmed in September by Sacramento County Superior Court Judge Loren McMaster. But his order means that, barring intervention by the state Supreme Court, the law will not be put on hold as the appellate court begins considering the matter. ...

Knight was author of Proposition 22, which defined marriage as between a man and a woman. Voters passed it in 2000, and opponents of the domestic partners law say it flouts that measure's intent.

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