Vallejos v Commissioner of Registration
Justice Johnson Lam Man-hon of the CFI had been expected to rule on the case on 29 September 2011. However, the Hong Kong Observatory raised tropical cyclone warning signal No. 8 due to the approach of Typhoon Nesat early that morning, meaning that government offices closed for the day. The next morning, the weather had returned to normal, and Lam announced his ruling that the relevant provision of the Immigration Ordinance was inconsistent with the Basic Law. Vallejos herself did not attend court that day, as she was at work.
Massachusetts v. United States Department of Health and Human Services
On June 29, BLAG filed a petition for certiorari with the Supreme Court in "Gill". The DOJ filed a petition in this case on July 3, while asking the Supreme Court to review "Golinski v. Office of Personnel Management" as well. The DOJ's petitions in "Gill" and "Massachusetts" raised the question of whether section 3 violates the Equal Protection Clause. In its reply to those petitions, filed on July 20, 2012, Massachusetts proposed the additional questions of whether section 3 violates the Tenth Amendment and the Spending Clause. BLAG on July 30 asked for extension of the August 2 deadline for its responses to the DOJ petition in this case and in "Golinski" to August 31, which request was granted. The petition for the writ of certiorari was dismissed after "United States v. Windsor" was decided.