Bill Duncan of the Marriage Law Foundation alerts me:

This will likely get lost in other news, but the Ninth Circuit ruled this
morning that a same-sex couple did not have standing to challenge the
federal Defense of Marriage Act because they had not been legally married in
any state. One interesting part of the lawsuit was that the “mainstream”
advocacy groups on the pro-redefinition side of the marriage debate had
tried very hard to get this result. They sought to intervene in the case
when it was appealed and then filed an amicus brief asking the Ninth Circuit
not to rule on the substantive claims made by the plaintiffs. They did not
want a decision in this case, positive or negative, to interfere with their
strategy of waiting to bring a federal case until they have secured more
favorable precedent at the state level.
The opinion is here .