UPDATE 7:51 p.m. The Obama administration will file a brief in the same-sex marriage cases, supporting equal access to marital rights in all of the states, Attorney General Eric Holder said in a statement.
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Taking on a historic c…
Jan 16 2015
Court will rule on same-sex marriage (UPDATED)
Jan 12 2015
South Dakota same-sex marriage ban falls
Building toward a test on same-sex marriage in one of the handful of federal appeals courts that have not yet ruled on the issue, a federal trial judge in South Dakota on Monday struck down that state’s ban. That means that such marriages are …
Jan 12 2015
Court denies one same-sex marriage case (UPDATED)
UPDATED 11:21 a.m. The four same-sex marriage cases challenging the Sixth Circuit’s ruling that upheld four states’ bans have now been set for consideration by the Justices at their Conference on Friday of this week. The post below ha…
Jan 10 2015
Sharp new critique of same-sex marriage rulings
Three judges of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, sharply protesting a three-judge panel’s October ruling in favor of same-sex marriage in two states, argued on Friday that courts at that level of the federal judiciary have no auth…
