Taking a narrow approach in deciding the blockbuster challenge to California’s ban on gay marriage, a split panel of the Ninth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals on Tuesday found Proposition 8 unconstitutional.

Writing for the majority, Judge Stephen Reinhardt said the ban eliminated a right that same-sex couples in California previously enjoyed, running afoul of the 14th Amendment.

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