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Alaska asks 11-judge panel to review same-sex marriage ruling
ANCHORAGE, Alaska — The state of Alaska is seeking to have an 11-judge panel of the federal appeals court for the West review a lower court’s ruling that struck down the state’s same-sex marriage ban. The state on Wednesday filed its case with the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco.
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Ninth Circuit declares Hawaii same-sex marriage lawsuit moot
HONOLULU — A 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruling has quietly ended a last-ditch court fight against a Hawaii law allowing same-sex marriage. The court issued an opinion earlier this month declaring moot a lawsuit filed by a Hawaii couple seeking to marry before the state legalized gay marriage last year. Natasha Jackson and Janin Kleid …
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Idaho governor asks 11-judge panel to review same-sex marriage ruling
BOISE, Idaho — Gov. C. L. “Butch” Otter is asking the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals for an 11-judge panel to review the three-judge ruling that overturned Idaho’s same-sex marriage ban last week. Otter announced Tuesday in a news release that the federal judges failed to use the correct legal standard to Idaho’s Constitutional definition of marriage.
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The week in review: The latest developments in marriage equality…
Same-sex couples won the right to wed in Alaska and Arizona on Friday, after separate court decisions ended bans in those states. And a third ruling in Wyoming means marriages there could begin within a week. The rulings bookend two weeks of legal wrangling, triggered by a U.S. Supreme Court decision last week that effectively legalized same-sex marriage …
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9th Circuit grants temporary stay of Alaska same-sex marriages
SAN FRANCISCO — The federal appeals court for the West on Wednesday issued a temporary halt to gay marriages in Alaska, just hours before most couples would be allowed to tie the knot. A three-judge panel of the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco granted a temporary halt until late Friday morning to allow the state to take its case…
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Alaska asks federal appeals court to delay same-sex marriages
ANCHORAGE, Alaska — The state of Alaska is asking a federal appeals court for a stay after a judge ruled the state’s gay marriage ban is unconstitutional. The state seeks the stay from the 9th Circuit Court while it appeals the lower court’s opinion.
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9th Circuit lifts Idaho stay, same-sex marriages begin Wednesday
BOISE, Idaho — The 9th Circuit Court of Appeals says Idaho’s stay banning same-sex marriage dissolves starting Wednesday morning. The court’s Monday decision came just after Idaho’s attorney general dropped its opposition. Meanwhile, Gov. C. L. “Butch” Otter maintained his resistance in a separate Monday court filing.
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Idaho couples ask U.S. Supreme Court to lift stay, allow same-sex marriages
BOISE, Idaho — Four Idaho couples who sued over the state’s gay marriage ban are asking the U.S. Supreme Court to allow same-sex marriages to begin in accordance with a lower court’s ruling earlier this week. Attorneys for the couples filed the opposition to an emergency stay with the high court Wednesday afternoon.
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Day of legal confusion leaves same-sex couples in limbo in Idaho, Nevada
Confusion and uncertainty over gay marriage spread Wednesday as couples in Las Vegas wondered whether they’d be allowed to wed, and partners in Idaho dealt with disappointment after a U.S. Supreme Court ruling blocked them moments before they would have picked up marriage licenses.
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Arizona’s same-sex marriage ban likely to fall in wake of 9th Circuit ruling
PHOENIX — The federal appeals court overseeing Arizona overturned gay marriage bans in two other states Tuesday in a decision that means same-sex marriage is virtually certain to be declared legal in Arizona soon. The ruling by the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals threw out gay marriage bans in Idaho and Nevada on constitutional grounds…