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Appeals court to hear challenge to Nevada same-sex marriage ban
LAS VEGAS — A federal appeals court says it will consider Nevada’s gay marriage ban on Sept. 8. The 9th Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco has scheduled 20 minutes of oral arguments in the case of Beverly Sevcik v. Brian Sandoval. The court will also hear arguments that morning over similar cases in Idaho and Hawaii.
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Ninth Circuit denies ‘en banc’ review of ‘heightened scrutiny’ ruling for gays
SAN FRANCISCO — A federal appeals court on Tuesday upheld an earlier decision by a three-judge panel which stated that gays and lesbians could not be excluded from jury duty on the basis of their sexual orientation, a ruling that for the first time applied “heightened scrutiny” to a case involving LGBT issues.
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Transgender candidate for Nev. state Assembly wins GOP primary
RENO, Nev. — A transgender woman seeking a seat in the Nevada state Assembly won her Republican primary this week, and if elected in November, could become the nation’s first openly transgender state legislator. Lauren Scott, co-founder and executive director of Equality Nevada, won the GOP nomination to represent Nevada’s 30th District.
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Federal appeals courts set schedules in Idaho, Nevada and Texas marriage cases
Two more federal appeals courts are set to consider recent rulings declaring same-sex marriage bans in Idaho and Texas as unconstitutional, and an appeal of Nevada’s ban, which was upheld in 2012. The cases are De Leon v. Perry in Texas, Latta v. Otter in Idaho, and Sevcik v. Sandoval in Nevada.
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Investigation: Nevada middle school shooter bullied, tormented, called ‘gay’
SPARKS, Nev. — In less than 10 minutes after his mother dropped him off at school on the morning of Oct. 21, 2013, seventh-grader Jose Reyes and a popular middle school teacher lay on the school yard, dead from gunshot wounds. Two classmates were wounded and a school was in panic.
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Nevada GOP removes opposition to gay marriage, abortion from platform
LAS VEGAS — The Nevada Republican Party stripped opposition to abortion and gay marriage from its platform Saturday as state convention delegates instead focused on judging fellow Republicans on their worthiness to serve in office and adherence to GOP values.
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Nevada Republican party mulls social issues’ place in platform
LAS VEGAS — Nevada Republicans meeting for a statewide convention in Las Vegas will decide this weekend whether to follow the lead of the state’s largest county and strip hot-button social issues from the party platform.
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Nev. county removes ‘traditional’ marriage definition from GOP platform
LAS VEGAS — The Clark County, Nev., Republican Party edited its official platform statement over the weekend to remove a section defining marriage as a union between a man and a woman, cut out a statement opposing abortion and added a section affirming people of all sexual orientations.
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UPDATE: Appeals court delays arguments in challenge to Nev. gay marriage ban
CARSON CITY, Nev. — A federal appeals court has postponed oral arguments on the challenge to Nevada’s gay marriage ban just hours after it had set the hearing for April 9.
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Growing number of attorneys general refusing to defend gay marriage bans
NORFOLK, Va. — The day after a federal judge struck down Virginia’s gay-marriage ban, state Attorney General Mark Herring wasn’t vowing to appeal or insisting his state’s law was sound.