Jernigan v. Crane

A federal judge who last year tossed out Arkansas’ voter-approved gay marriage ban won’t lift her own stay and let same-sex marriages resume immediately.

The Arkansas attorney general has asked a federal judge who struck down the state’s gay marriage ban to not allow same-sex couples to wed while the ruling is being appealed.

Lawyers for gay couples challenging Arkansas’ same-sex marriage ban want a federal judge to drop a stay she imposed while tossing the prohibition last year.

A federal appeals court has agreed to hear arguments this spring from three more states defending their same-sex marriage bans.

Attorney General Dustin McDaniel says he is filing a notice of appeal with the 8th U.S. Supreme Court of Appeals of a federal ruling striking down Arkansas’ gay marriage ban.

A petition urging Arkansas AG Dustin McDaniel to not appeal a same-sex marriage case was delivered by the plaintiffs.

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. — A top official in Arkansas’ most populous county said Wednesday that his office is prepared to issue licenses if same-sex marriage returns to the Bible Belt. Pulaski County Clerk Larry Crane’s statements came a day after a federal judge tossed the state’s gay marriage ban, saying …

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. — A federal judge has struck down Arkansas’ gay marriage ban, which could pave the way for county clerks to eventually resume issuing licenses. U.S. District Judge Kristine Baker ruled Tuesday in favor of a pair of same-sex couples who had challenged the 2004 constitutional amendment and an earlier state law defining marriage as between a man and a woman.

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. — Challenges to the state’s ban on gay marriage are being fought in both federal and state courtrooms in Arkansas, but such unions could come to the state by other means. No decisions were issued after the state Supreme Court and U.S. District Judge Kristine Baker heard arguments in separate but similar lawsuits Thursday.

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. — Arkansas Supreme Court justices questioned Thursday whether banning gay marriage is constitutional just because voters overwhelmingly wanted to a decade ago, even if the restriction conflicts with other fundamental rights. Opponents and supporters of the 2004 constitutional amendment defining marriage as between …

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. — Arguments are set in two Arkansas courtrooms on whether the state should drop its prohibition against same-sex marriages.

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. — Arkansas’ highest court and a federal judge will hear arguments this week over the state’s ban on same-sex marriage, a decade after voters approved a constitutional amendment defining marriage as between a man and a woman. Attorneys for the state and a group of gay couples are scheduled to appear before the …

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. — Arkansas’ highest court will hear oral arguments in a case challenging the state’s gay marriage ban on the same day a federal judge takes up a separate case over the prohibition.

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. — A federal judge has set a hearing for next month in a lawsuit challenging Arkansas’ gay marriage ban. U.S. District Judge Kristine Baker on Monday scheduled a Nov. 20 hearing over competing motions in the lawsuit challenging a 2004 constitutional amendment and earlier laws defining marriage…

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. — A federal judge has denied Arkansas’ request to delay proceedings in a lawsuit challenging the state’s constitutional ban on gay marriage. Arkansas Attorney General Dustin McDaniel earlier this year asked the court to put the case on hold until the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in a case involving Utah’s gay marriage ban…

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. — Lawyers for gay couples challenging Arkansas’ ban on same-sex marriages said Wednesday they won’t agree to delay a pair of lawsuits while the U.S. Supreme Court considers taking up the matter. The couples sued Arkansas in state and federal courts last year, claiming that a constitutional amendment passed overwhelmingly by Arkansas…

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. — Arkansas officials asked a federal judge and the state Supreme Court Wednesday to suspend lawsuits challenging the state’s gay marriage ban while a similar case is pending before the nation’s highest court. The attorney general’s office filed a motion asking U.S. District Judge Kristine Baker to stay the proceedings in the lawsuit filed …

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. — Arkansas officials are asking a federal judge to reject an effort to strike down the state’s same-sex marriage ban, arguing the prohibition is constitutional and serves a legitimate state interest.

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. — Attorneys for two same-sex couples in Arkansas are asking a federal judge to issue an order striking down the state’s same-sex marriage ban. Attorneys for the couples filed a motion Wednesday for summary judgment, asking U.S. District Judge Kristine Baker to issue an order striking down the state constitutional amendment …

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. — The state of Arkansas is asking a federal judge to throw out a lawsuit challenging a voter-approved law that bans same-sex marriage on grounds that the plaintiffs’ rights aren’t being violated.