LITTLE ROCK, Ark. — An Arkansas judge is taking another week before issuing a ruling in a lawsuit challenging the state’s same-sex marriage ban.
A clerk for Pulaski County Circuit Judge Chris Piazza told attorneys in a letter Thursday that the judge expected to issue a ruling by May 9 in the lawsuit seeking to overturn a state constitutional amendment defining marriage as between a man and a woman.
Piazza said at a hearing April 17 that he expected to issue a ruling within two weeks.
A group of same-sex couples are suing the state over the amendment, which was approved by voters in 2004.
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Lawyers for the couples say the amendment is itself unconstitutional and violates the couples’ rights.
Follow this case: Wright v. Arkansas.
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