-McClatchy Newspapers, March 5, 2009 by Susan Ferriss
http://www.ecollegetimes.com/home/index.cfm?event=displayArticlePrinterFriendly&uStory_id=9dff49fc-d8eb-49f5-9614-c3e79fb2dbd8
Barnett said California’s seven Supreme Court justices “all recognize that this is new territory.”
Justices seemed to be “inviting” attorneys to help them define what constitutes a fundamental or inalienable right—and how the right of same-sex couples to marry fits into that definition if civil unions afford some of the same rights that heterosexual couples enjoy, he said.
-The Sacramento Bee, March 6, 2009 by Susan Ferriss
http://www.sacbee.com/capitolandcalifornia/story/1676806.html
“I think the opponents of Proposition 8 faced heavy going,” said Stephen Barnett, Boalt Hall law professor at the University of California, Berkeley. He said Proposition 8 supporters’ argument that the “people have the power” at the ballot box seemed to hold sway with a number of justices, judging from their questions and comments.