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Grand Marshall Edith Windsor leads jubilant crowd at NYC pride
NEW YORK — The 84-year-old woman at the center of the U.S. Supreme Court decision granting gay couples federal marriage benefits is a grand marshal of New York City’s gay pride march.
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Edith Windsor, NYC crowd celebrate court’s gay marriage ruling
NEW YORK — About a thousand people gathered Wednesday on the block where a 1969 riot sparked the gay rights movement to celebrate the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision striking down a section of the federal Defense of Marriage Act.
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‘Joyous’ plaintiff Edith Windsor cried at gay marriage ruling
NEW YORK — The plaintiff in the historic gay marriage case that the Supreme Court has ruled on says she cried when she heard the ruling. Edith Windsor said Wednesday’s ruling made her feel “joyous, just joyous!”
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A boost for same-sex marriage: Supreme Court justices question federal law
WASHINGTON — Concluding two days of intense debate, the Supreme Court signaled Wednesday it could give a boost to same-sex marriage by striking down the federal law that denies legally married gay spouses a wide range of benefits offered to other couples.
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Listen: U.S. Supreme Court releases audio of DOMA hearing
WASHINGTON — The U.S. Supreme Court has released the audio and transcript of Wednesday’s hearing challenging the Defense of Marriage Act, the federal law that prevents legally married gay couples from receiving a range of federal benefits that go to married people.
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‘Edie, Edie,’ chants a jubilant crowd as Windsor emerges from Supreme Court
WASHINGTON — Edith Windsor emerged from the U.S. Supreme Court on Wednesday to loud cheers from marriage equality supporters gathered outside the high court, on this second day of back-to-back same-sex marriage cases.
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Day 2 at the high court: Justices to hear challenge to Defense of Marriage Act
WASHINGTON — In the second of back-to-back gay marriage cases, the Supreme Court is turning to a constitutional challenge to the law that prevents legally married gay Americans from collecting federal benefits generally available to straight married couples.
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Edith Windsor calls on U.S. Supreme Court to strike down DOMA
Edith Windsor, the New York widow who was forced to pay $363,000 in estate taxes in 2009 upon the death of her spouse, Thea Spyer, made her case to the U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday, filing a brief in her challenge to the federal Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA).
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Obama administration urges U.S. Supreme Court to strike down DOMA
The Obama administration on Friday filed a brief with the U.S. Supreme Court, arguing why it considers the federal Defense of Marriage Act to be unconstitutional.
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Amicus brief: U.S. Supreme Court does not have authority to rule on DOMA
The U.S. Supreme Court does not have the authority to rule on the constitutionality of the federal Defense of Marriage Act, argued a Harvard professor in a brief filed Thursday with the high court.