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Monday, November 29, 2004

BREAKING NEWS ~ US high court won't hear gay marriage case
Bernard Hibbitts at 10:25 AM ET

[JURIST] AP is reporting that the US Supreme Court has declined to hear a challenge to last year's Massachusetts high court decision legalizing same-sex marriage. Read the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court decision in Goodridge v. Department of Public Health.

10:48 AM ET - The Supreme Court's Order List is now available here [PDF]. The Court granted certiorari in one case, Dodd v. United States, raising the question of when precisely a one-year time limit on challenge of sentence began to run for Michael Dodd of Florida, who was convicted on a drug conspiracy charge.






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