Well, yes, actually it does, and constantly does. There are quite a huge number of district court decisions that the state has ignored over the years, and likely will be another one next week. States ignore federal district courts all the time. Sometimes, a judge will get annoyed about this and will start applying contempt penalties against a state officer until someone gets around to appealing the decision that they decide not to follow.
Rarely does a state bow immediately to a district court.
Of course, in this case, the state was more than ready to bow to the district court, and accepted the decision as final, with no desire to appeal. The question is: can the people force the appeal? The supreme court effectively said no; you want to force an appeal, do it like anyone else does, harass state officials until they get off their rump and appeal it.
Now, as is typical, when Republicans were running for state offices, they ignored the issue, after all, it might offend some gay voters (who for the most part won't be voting Republican anyway...) Rather than make a call to arms to California's voters, they instead chose to ignore it and promote Meg ****man, who was of course whitless.
She took the Karl Rove approved tactic of appealing to and pandering to illegals to gain the governor's chair, while effectively all the major media ignored Jerry Brown.
Not so shockingly, she lost. Because you can't outliberal a liberal.
I can't name one California public official in recent decades who has willfully refused to obey the order of any federal court. Even President Nixon was afraid to go that far.
BTW, as I recall, Meg Whitman lost because she refused to clean her own house like most women.