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A judge for the US District Court for the Middle District of Pennsylvania denied two motions Friday seeking to dismiss a lawsuit challenging Pennsylvania's ban on same-sex marriage. The challenge was brought by the secretaries...

Four Idaho couples filed a lawsuit in the Idaho District Court Friday challenging the state's same-sex marriage ban. The plaintiffs are bringing the lawsuit in light of the recent Supreme Court ruling in US v....

The Illinois House of Representatives voted on Tuesday to legalize same-sex marriage . The bill , known as the Religious Freedom and Marriage Fairness Act Illinois, passed the state senate in February...

On Friday, Judge Timothy Black of the US District Court for the Southern District of Ohio ruled that a lawsuit seeking the recognition of same-sex marriages on Ohio death certificates could continue. The ruling was...

A Colorado same-sex couple filed a lawsuit Wednesday in the Adams County District Court after they were denied a marriage license from the Adams County Clerk's office in Colorado. The couple, Rebecca Brinkman and Margaret Burd, argues...

Anthony Infanti, University of Pittsburgh Law School

Four same-sex couples filed a lawsuit on Monday challenging the Tennessee laws that prohibit recognition of their marriages. The federal lawsuit challenges the constitutionality of Tennessee's "Anti-Recognition" laws, which prohibit the state from recognizing the marriages of...

Theodore Seto, Loyola Law School

The New Jersey Supreme Court on Friday ruled that the state must begin recognizing same-sex marriages. The court declined to issue a stay on a lower court's decision pending appeal. The lower court...

The Employee Retirement Income Security Act (ERISA) has developed since it first passed in 1974. Some of the most pressing and evolving issues today pertain to marriage statuses under ERISA, the impact of the Affordable Care Act, if any, on...