CINCINNATI (AP) — Four legally married gay couples filed a federal civil rights lawsuit Monday seeking a court order to force Ohio to recognize same-sex marriages on birth certificates despite a statewide ban, echoing arguments in a similar successful lawsuit concerning death certificates.
JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) — Five gay couples filed a lawsuit Monday challenging Alaska's ban on same-sex marriage as unconstitutional.
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) - Lawyers representing couples who are challenging Arkansas' gay-marriage ban are asking the state Supreme Court to deny the state's request to delay proceedings until the U.S. Supreme Court takes up a similar same-sex marriage case.
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — The rights of same-sex couples during medical emergencies will loom large when a federal appeals court considers a case targeting gay-marriage bans in Indiana and Wisconsin.
SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) - A federal appeals court affirmed a judge’s ruling that struck down South Dakota’s ban on same-sex marriage as unconstitutional, allowing attorneys for the couples who challenged the law to proceed with their plan to seek legal fees from the state.
LOUISVILLE, Ky. -- Embattled Kentucky clerk Kim Davis "has not demonstrated a substantial likelihood of success" in her legal bid to exempt her office from licensing same-sex marriages, a federal appeals court reiterated Tuesday.
CHARLESTON, S.C. (AP) -- A federal court has cleared the way for gay couples to be married in South Carolina.
Attorneys who persuaded a judge to overturn Michigan’s ban on same-sex marriage are asking a higher court to reject an indefinite stay while the case is appealed by the state attorney general.
PHOENIX (AP) - Lawyers for plaintiffs in one of two pending lawsuits challenging Arizona's ban on same-sex marriage are asking a federal court to combine the suits into one case.
WICHITA — Court documents are offering a glimpse at the early impact of the gay marriage ruling in Kansas.
TULSA, Okla. (AP) — A federal appeals court says it will wait to decide whether attorneys' fees should be awarded in a lawsuit challenging Oklahoma's ban on gay marriage.
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) - A federal appeals court has granted Utah's request for more time to prepare opening arguments in defense of the state's same-sex marriage ban.
NORFOLK, Va. (AP) - A federal judge was set to hear arguments Tuesday on whether Virginia's ban on gay marriage should be struck down, which is the position the state's newly elected Democratic attorney general has endorsed in a move that angered many Republican lawmakers.
INDIANAPOLIS | At least one same-sex couple in Indiana will have their marriage recognized by the state following a federal court decision Tuesday.
DENVER (AP) - A federal appeals court on Friday ruled Oklahoma must allow gay couples to wed, marking the second time it has found the U.S. Constitution protects same-sex marriage.
BOISE, Idaho (AP) — The 9th Circuit Court of Appeals has decided Idaho's stay banning same-sex marriage dissolves starting Wednesday morning.
SIOUX FALLS (AP) — A federal appeals court has agreed to take up South Dakota's ban on gay marriage.
(CNN) -- A federal appeals court decided Tuesday to continue the stay of a judge's ruling that struck down Michigan's same-sex marriage ban, meaning that gay and lesbian couples cannot marry in the state while the appeals process unfolds.
A federal appeals court for the first time says a state cannot prevent gay people from getting married.
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) - The Arkansas Supreme Court wants lawyers in a gay-marriage case to tell it which justices they believe should decide the issue.
Wearing cowboy boots and bolo ties, Steve Schlairat and Ozzie Russ exchanged wedding vows as they stood beside two saddles perched atop bales of hay on a chilly Saturday afternoon with friends and family looking on.
DAVIE, Fla. (AP) - Florida Gov. Rick Scott and Democratic challenger Charlie Crist took opposing sides on the same-sex marriage question during their latest debate.
County clerks in Nevada turned away gay couples eager to marry Wednesday amid a flurry of conflicting court decisions, including a U.S. Supreme Court ruling that blocked partners in Idaho moments before they would have picked up marriage licenses.
Frank Schaefer lost his job but not his voice.
WILMINGTON, Del. (AP)- More than 2,000 same-sex couples have been married in Delaware in the last 12 months, but court clerks in the state expect the pace to slow going forward.
Georgia couple Dan Walter and Jay Beadle planned to spend the rest of their lives together. That was before Beadle was diagnosed with non-Hodgkin’s Lymphoma in 1999 and head and neck cancer in 2010. In a committed relationship for 21 years, the couple legally wed in Minnesota two months before Beadle’s death in Jan. 2014.
A Republican-led Missouri House committee plans to hold a hearing on measures seeking to impeach Democratic Gov. Jay Nixon.
SAN ANTONIO — Wendy Davis said Thursday that she supports gay marriage and called on Attorney General Greg Abbott to stop defending the Texas Constitution’s definition of marriage as between one man and one woman.
The Democratic National Committee announced at its annual summer meeting in Minneapolis recently that they will partner with the National Gay and Lesbian Chamber of Commerce to select LGBT-owned businesses to provide services for the 2016 Democratic National Convention.
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