Stephen Barnett Calls Argument in Prop 8 Case ‘Long Shot’

Los Angeles Times, February 4, 2009 by Maura Dolan and Jessica Garrison
http://www.latimes.com/la-me-prop-8-spending4-2009feb04,0,1608579,print.story

“Brown’s is stronger because it has never been tried before, so it’s got that going for it, whereas there is a lot of law about what’s a constitutional revision,” he said. Still, Barnett said he doubted that the moderate, Republican-dominated court would adopt Brown’s theory because he said it could have far-reaching consequences.”