California Supreme Court ordered to parties to brief on the merits and whether the stay should be issued and on July 15, it denied the application for stay. On July 19, San Diego County Clerk Ernest J. Dronenburg Jr. filed a petition ["Dronenburg v. Brown" (CA S.Ct docket: S212172)] asking for the California Supreme Court halt the issuance of marriage license to same-sex couples and application to stay during litigation which the court denied on July 23. He later withdrew his petition on August 2. On August 14, 2013, the Supreme Court denied the petition for a writ of mandate. The last attempt to resume Proposition 8 failed and the case is to be considered closed.