Makes no sense. Their decision was vacated, and yet they get tot make the final decision?
Because their decision was vacated, the stay pending appeal which they had ordered has to be dissolved as well. The only question was whether they were going to wait for the "mandate" (the Supreme Court's formal order to them to vacate their decision, which will come down in about 25 days), or act on their own.
The Ninth Circuit was ordered by SCOTUS to lift the stay. They didn’t “make the final decision.” The stay the Ninth Circuit issued is a separate legal action from the case they wrongly accepted and then decided.
The headline a bit misleading. They just had to lift their stay after the SCOTUS ruling. It’s just a procedural technicality is all.