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LGBT advocacy groups give Obama’s immigration order a lukewarm reception
WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama’s announcement Thursday that he is issuing an executive order to take action on immigration, including temporarily protecting about 5 million undocumented immigrants from the threat of deportation, was met with a lukewarm reception from LGBT rights groups.
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U.S. Supreme Court asked to review Louisiana same-sex marriage case
NEW ORLEANS — Gay-rights advocates challenging Louisiana’s same-sex marriage ban want the U.S. Supreme Court to review their case before it is heard by a federal appeals court.
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Fourth Circuit rejects attempt to delay same-sex marriage in South Carolina
RICHMOND, Va. — A federal appeals court on Tuesday cleared the way for same-sex couples to be married in South Carolina beginning this week – at least for now. The 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Richmond, Virginia, denied the state’s request to block the marriages while it appeals a lower court’s ruling overturning South Carolina’s ban on gay marriage.
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Lambda Legal, ACLU ask U.S. Supreme Court to review Ohio marriage ruling
CINCINNATI, Ohio — Lambda Legal and the American Civil Liberties Union on Friday filed a petition asking the U.S. Supreme Court to review the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals’ ruling upholding same-sex marriage bans in Ohio and three other states. The Sixth Circuit is the only federal circuit court to depart from recent decisions by the…
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Nevada officials say there’s no need for court to re-hear gay marriage case
LAS VEGAS — A federal appeals court should reject a request by the Coalition for the Protection of Marriage for a full-court rehearing of a landmark decision allowing gay marriage in Nevada, the state’s governor and an advocacy group representing eight same-sex couples said. In strongly worded filings submitted on a Wednesday deadline to the […]
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Federal judge makes it official, strikes down West Virginia gay marriage ban
HUNTINGTON, W.Va. — Although West Virginia’s Attorney General stopped defending the state’s same-sex marriage ban and gay couples began marrying last month, a federal court on Friday made it official, striking down the ban as mandated by the U.S. Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals’ earlier ruling striking down a similar ban in Virginia.
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Lambda Legal files suit against SSA over denial of same-sex survivor benefits
WASHINGTON — Lambda Legal has filed suit against the Social Security Administration (SSA) on behalf of a Texas widow denied spousal benefits after the death of her wife, arguing that denying Social Security benefits to same-sex spouses because they live in states that discriminate against their marriages violates the U.S. Constitution.
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Next stop for Ariz. couple who challenged gay marriage ban: visiting a wedding planner
PHOENIX — Karen Bailey and Nelda Majors were a couple for 50 years before they told friends and family about their relationship. They kept it secret to avoid the hostility that they saw lesbians and gay men endure throughout much of their lifetime. Six years after they revealed their relationship, the partners witnessed something that they never thought …
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Groups file federal lawsuit to force South Carolina to allow same-sex marriages
CHARLESTON, S.C. — South Carolina Equality and Lambda Legal on Wednesday filed a federal lawsuit in U.S. District Court arguing that South Carolina is obligated to allow same-sex couples to marry, consistent with a ruling by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit.
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Nevada gay marriage opponents ask for full 9th Circuit Court hearing
LAS VEGAS — A group that couldn’t convince three federal appeals judges that Nevada’s state law banning same-sex marriage was constitutional is asking the entire 9th Circuit Court of Appeals to hear its case. The Coalition for the Protection of Marriage filed documents Monday claiming bias by the three-judge panel that last week invalidated…