I saw this coming a mile away: Same-sex marriages in the state of California are once again up in the air and on indefinite hold after the three-judge panel of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals blocked the unions Monday while it considers the constitutionality of the state’s gay marriage ban.

This decision trumps U.S. District Judge Vaughn R. Walker’s Aug. 4 ruling that would have allowed county clerks to begin issuing marriage licenses to same-sex couples on Wednesday.

The panel agreed to hold a hearing on the case during the week of Dec. 6 and ordered both sides to present arguments on whether the campaign for Proposition 8 has legal authority to appeal Walker’s order.