The court made it very clear in June 2013 that it was in no rush to announce a constitutional right to gay marriage.
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Read More »The court made it very clear in June 2013 that it was in no rush to announce a constitutional right to gay marriage.
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Read More »The U.S. Supreme Court rejected calls for a nationwide ruling on same-sex marriage, a rebuff that lets gays marry in as many as 11 new states and leaves legal uncertainty elsewhere.
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Read More »Missouri Attorney General Chris Koster said Monday that his office won’t appeal a Jackson County Circuit Court judge’s ruling that the marriages of 10 same-sex couples must be recognized by the state of Missouri.
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Read More »Jackson County Circuit Court Judge J. Dale Youngs on Friday ordered that the marriages of 10 same-sex couples must be recognized by the state of Missouri. (Updated)
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Read More »Jackson County Circuit Judge J. Dale Youngs had one question for attorneys during Thursday’s hearing over the recognition of out-of-state marriages: Why discriminate against this subset of people?
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Read More »Judge Richard Posner’s opinion is uncharacteristically lengthy, but its most memorable words are just two: “Go figure.” With each decreasingly plausible effort to defend prohibitions on same-sex marriages, that may remain the best response.
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Read More »Wisconsin’s same-sex marriage ban follows in the tradition of discrimination against blacks and is based on hate, said the only Republican appointee on a three-member appellate panel in Chicago considering the issue.
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Read More »Gay-marriage opponents, having lost two dozen rulings in courts across the country over the past year, argued Wednesday to reverse the tide before a federal appeals court in the U.S. heartland.
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Read More »If a U.S. Supreme Court decision legalizing gay marriage looks inevitable, perhaps it is.
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Read More »Two same-sex couples who were denied marriage licenses in Kansas City are seeking relief from the Jackson County Circuit Court.
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Read More »St. Louis Mayor Francis Slay’s deliberate and direct attack on Missouri’s same-sex marriage ban included legal research followed by swift action to marry four couples “fully aware” of the scrutiny and publicity they would face. (Updated 6/26 at 3:15 p.m.)
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