Wednesday round-up

Yesterday, supporters of Californias Proposition 8, a ballot initiative adopted in 2008 to prohibit same-sex marriage in the state, filed a cert. petition seeking review of the Ninth Circuits decision invalidating the ban. Lyle Denniston covered the filing for this blog; other coverage comes from Karen Gullo of Bloomberg, Jess Bravin of the Wall Street Journal, Bob Egelko of the San Francisco Chronicle, Bill Mears of CNN, Steve Gorman of Reuters, Scottie Thomaston at the Huffington Post, Warren Richey of the Christian Science Monitor, Maura Dolan of the Los Angeles Times, and Lisa Leff of the Associated Press.

Also before the Court are several petitions seeking review of the constitutionality of the federal Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA) next Term. Yesterday the Court extended the deadline for House Republican leaders to respond to two of those petitions; Chris Geidner has coverage at BuzzFeed.

At this blog, Lyle reports that supporters of Oklahomas proposed fetal personhood state constitutional amendment, which the states supreme court blocked earlier this year, have asked the Court to allow the states citizens to vote on that proposal. Additional coverage is provided by Michael McNutt at the Oklahoman and Randy Krehbiel at the Tulsa World.

Finally, coverage of Mondays order issued by the Chief Justice allowing Marylands DNA testing law to remain in effect until the Court acts on the states cert. petition (which Nabiha reported yesterday) continues. Among those providing coverage are Adam Liptak of the New York Times, Jennifer Shutt of the Salisbury, Maryland Daily Times, and Douglas A. Berman at Sentencing Law and Policy.

Briefly:

• At Bloomberg, Alex Nussbaum reports that errors in the reporting of Courts health care decision at the end of June didnt just embarrass the networks, but it also whipsawed shares of companies including HCA Holdings Corp. and WellPoint Inc.