On August 4, 2010, United States District Court Chief Judge Vaughn Walker declared Proposition 8 a violation of the Due Process and Equal Protection clauses of the U.S. Constitution in "Perry v. Schwarzenegger", a decision upheld by the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals on February 7, 2012. The case, known as "Perry v. Brown" in the Ninth Circuit, was appealed to the U.S. Supreme Court on July 31, 2012. The case was granted review as "Hollingsworth v. Perry" on December 7, 2012 and a decision was issued on June 26, 2013. The Court decided that the official sponsors of Proposition 8 did not have legal standing to appeal the district court decision when the state's public officials refused to do so. The judgment of the Ninth Circuit was vacated and the case was returned to that Court with instructions to dismiss the Prop 8 sponsors' appeal. On June 28, 2013, a stay of effect was removed from the federal district court decision and same-sex marriages were able to resume. Same-sex couples began marrying later that day.