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Massachusetts Supreme Court to hear gay marriage challenge

February 24, 2005 08:44:00 AM

The Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts will hear a challenge to a 1913 state law that Massachusetts has used to block out-of-state gay couples from being married there. The 1913 law prohibits the commonwealth from granting marriage...

February 15, 2005 02:22:00 PM

The Russian Supreme Court Tuesday rejected a petition for the legalization of same-sex marriage. In its opinion, the court held that it could not alter the Russian Family Code to allow for same-sex marriages. The...

February 12, 2005 02:27:00 PM

One day after the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court announced it would hear arguments challenging its decision to legalize same-sex marriage, Massachusetts Attorney General Thomas F. Reilly told reporters Friday that he now supports the ruling....

February 6, 2005 11:04:00 AM

New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg said Saturday that the city will appeal Friday's state court ruling that denying same-sex couples the right to marry violates the state constitution. Bloomberg had previously made...

February 4, 2005 03:04:00 PM

New York State Supreme Court Justice Doris Ling-Cohan ruled Friday that New York's law banning same-sex marriages violates the state constitution. Read her 62-page opinion . If upheld on appeal, the decision would allow same-sex couples in the state...

February 3, 2005 10:29:00 AM

Ulster County Court Judge J. Michael Bruhn reinstated 24 criminal misdemeanor charges against New Paltz Village Mayor Jason West late Wednesday for marrying 24 gay couples in February 2004. West was charged with the misdemeanor counts last...

February 1, 2005 01:34:00 PM

Canadian Justice Minister Irwin Cotler Tuesday introduced what he termed "landmark legislation" to legalize same-sex marriage in Canadian federal law. Cotler described the Civil Marriage Act as protecting both minority rights...

January 27, 2005 09:13:00 AM

The only remaining challenge to the federal Defense of Marriage Act is set to begin today in California. The lawsuit argues DOMA and California's Proposition 22 are violations of a gay couple's civil rights. California only...

January 26, 2005 12:45:00 PM

Lawsuits brought by three same-sex couples married in Massachusetts and Canada seeking to have their marriages recognized in Florida have been dropped because the plaintiffs do not want to risk having the US Supreme Court set precedent by rejecting...

January 24, 2005 03:24:00 PM

Senators supporting a constitutional amendment to ban gay marriage said Monday they will press for passage of the amendment in the new Congress despite President Bush's recent indication that he will not lobby for its passage . GOP...

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