Gay couples in Missouri who are married in other states will still be able to file joint tax returns, at least this year.
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Read More »Gay couples in Missouri who are married in other states will still be able to file joint tax returns, at least this year.
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Read More »A federal judge said Texas’s ban on same-sex marriage is unconstitutional and should be blocked while opponents seek to overturn it, granting a victory to supporters of gay unions in the nation’s second-largest state.
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Read More »Unlike earlier legislative efforts to block gay marriage, this law is probably constitutional. Yet Gov. Jan Brewer still shouldn’t sign it.
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Read More »Oregon’s attorney general said she won’t defend her state’s ban on same-sex marriage, joining other top state law enforcement officials in refusing to fight challenges to similar prohibitions.
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Read More »The Obama administration will confer federal marital benefits on more than 1,000 same-sex couples married in Utah before such unions were put on hold last week by the U.S. Supreme Court.
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Read More »“The state can neither recognize nor confer new marital benefits," Utah Attorney General Sean D. Reyes said.
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Read More »The U.S. Supreme Court halted Utah’s same-sex weddings while the state presses an appeal.
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Read More »New Jersey can’t block same-sex marriages while it appeals a decision that overturned a statewide ban on such unions.
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Read More »A federal judge in California said a trial on the constitutionality of the state’s ban on gay marriage can be put on YouTube, marking the first time a federal trial will be broadcasted, a lawyer in the case said. Over ...
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Read More »The Iowa Supreme Court opinion that legalized gay marriage probably stands as one of the most important and surprising legal decisions of the year. The case is also an example to lawyers of how to argue and win a controversial and high-profile case. Attorney Dennis Johnson (pictured), the lead lawyer in the landmark Varnum v. Brien case, spoke Wednesday evening to members of KC LEGAL, Kansas City's gay and lesbian bar association. Johnson, who retired from Dorsey & Whitney shortly after the arguments in December, explained how he and other attorneys tackled the case over its lengthy history.
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Read More »The California Supreme Court upheld Proposition 8, a ballot initiative that outlawed same-sex weddings, a practice that is now legal in four other states. The court legalized gay marriage a year ago before California voters overruled it in November. Fifty-two ...
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