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Court schedules hearing in appeal of Mississippi same-sex marriage ruling
Three federal appeals court judges will hear arguments next month in a challenge to Mississippi’s ban on same-sex marriage.
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No same-sex marriages in Mississippi while state appeals ruling
JACKSON, Miss. — A federal appeals court on Thursday agreed to expedite the process for considering a challenge to Mississippi’s same-sex marriage ban, while extending a stay on a district court’s ruling striking down the ban.
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Marriage News Watch: Dec. 1, 2014
More victories this week in some very conservative states. We’re now closer than ever to the start of marriage in Arkansas and Mississippi. Florida is refusing to issue drivers’ licenses to a couple after they married and changed their last name. And support for marriage has skyrocketed in Wyoming.
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Mississippi files notice of appeal in same-sex marriage case, asks to extend stay
JACKSON, Miss. — Mississippi’s attorney general has taken first steps to appeal a federal judge’s ruling that overturned the state’s ban on same-sex marriage. A formal notice of appeal was filed late Wednesday in federal court in Jackson and with the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in New Orleans by Attorney General Jim Hood and Gov. Phil Bryant.
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Federal judge overturns Mississippi same-sex marriage ban, ruling stayed
JACKSON, Miss. — A federal judge on Tuesday overturned Mississippi’s ban on same-sex marriage, but circuit clerks cannot immediately start to issue marriage licenses to gay or lesbian couples because the order was on hold for two weeks so the state can appeal. State attorneys have already said they will ask the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals to block …
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Mississippi Supreme Court schedules arguments in same-sex divorce case
JACKSON, Miss. — The Mississippi Supreme Court will hear arguments Jan. 21 from a woman who wants the state to recognize her same-sex marriage in order to grant a divorce.
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Same-sex couple’s divorce case before Mississippi Supreme Court
JACKSON, Miss. — The attorney for a woman who wants the state of Mississippi to recognize her same-sex marriage in order to grant a divorce says his client’s case is on a parallel track to the efforts in federal court to overturn the state’s ban on gay marriage.
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Judge hears arguments in challenge to Mississippi gay marriage ban
JACKSON, Miss. — A federal judge heard five hours of arguments Wednesday about whether to overturn Mississippi’s ban on same-sex marriage, and he pressed attorneys to say whether the state’s interests outweigh those of gay or lesbian couples who want the same legal rights as straight couples.
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Mississippi officials seek to uphold ban on same-sex marriage
JACKSON, Miss. — Mississippi’s Republican governor and Democratic attorney general are asking a federal judge to uphold the state’s ban on same-sex marriage. The state made the request in court papers Monday, responding to a lawsuit filed Oct. 20 in U.S. District Court in Jackson by two lesbian couples and a gay-rights group, Campaign for Southern Equality.
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HRC launches first ever LGBT public education campaign in Mississippi
BRANDON, Miss. — Mary Jane Kennedy considers herself a conservative Christian Republican, and she’s led Bible studies in her native Mississippi for decades. She’s also the mother of two gay sons and one of the faces in a new advertising campaign aimed at softening religious opposition in the Deep South to equal rights for people who are…