Isn't the answer that the citizens' normal attorneys wouldn't
adequately defend the citizens' actions?
Eugene
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> This goes to an interesting quirk of this case that I've raised on other
> lists before:
> how is it that the citizens of California came to have the Alliance Defense
> Fund
> as their attorneys, stepping into the shoes of the State in order the
> formulate
> and articulate what California's state interests are in maintaining marriage
> discrimination? The formal answer is that the 9th Cir has a liberal standard
> for
> intervention, gives ballot initiative proponents a presumptive right to
> intervene,
> and (unlike the 6th cir) doesn't distinguish between the interests of such
> proponents at the ballot stage vs. post enactment.
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> Steve Sanders
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