WASHINGTON – For the second consecutive week, the Proposition 8 and Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA) cases did not make the list of cases that the U.S. Supreme Court will take up this session, nor were they placed on the list of cases they decline to review.

The nation's high court begins its new term today, and each Monday the justices publicly announce which cases they will review and which ones they will drop.

The nine justices have reviewed hundreds of cases, including several important ones involving gay rights.

SAN FRANCISCO -- Assembly Speaker John A. Pérez (D-Los Angeles) will join Academy Award-winning writer Dustin Lance Black, Emmy Award-winning actress Holland Taylor and actor Luke Macfarlane at the American Conservatory Theatre in San Francisco on Oct. 7 for a reading of Black’s stage drama “8” about California Proposition 8 and the case Perry v Schwarzenegger.

The reading will also feature California Shakespeare Theater artistic director Jonathan Moscone and LGBTQ activist Cleve Jones.

SAN DIEGO – A thin majority of the readers of San Diego Gay & Lesbian News who took our poll say they think that the U.S. Supreme Court will not take up the California Proposition 8 case, thus allowing the lower-court ruling to stand the law is unconstitutional.

Our poll question was: Will the U.S. Supreme Court take up the Proposition 8 appeal or let the ruling stand?

The results, which are not scientific, reveal that 52% of readers will think the Supreme Court will not take up the Prop 8 case and 48% think that the high court will take the case.

The U.S. Supreme Court may announce soon whether or not it will review the Prop 8 case (known as Perry v. Brown, brought by Ted Olson and David Boies) seeking to strike down the ban on the freedom to marry in California. If the Court accepts the case for review, we will all have to wait for oral arguments and the Court’s decision, which likely would be issued by June 2013.