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PHILADELPHIA — Gay and lesbian couples are racing to pick up marriage licenses in Pennsylvania after a federal judge threw out the state’s ban on same-sex unions.

HARRISBURG, Pa. — Pennsylvania’s ban on same-sex marriage was overturned by a federal judge Tuesday in a decision that legalized the practice throughout the Northeast and sent couples racing to pick up licenses.

PHILADELPHIA — Gay rights activists should know within hours whether Pennsylvania’s ban on same-sex marriage will be overturned.

HARRISBURG, Pa. — Gov. Tom Corbett is now asking a federal judge to decide a constitutional challenge to Pennsylvania’s law banning same-sex marriage without a trial.

HARRISBURG, Pa. — Gay couples and others challenging Pennsylvania’s 1996 law banning same-sex marriage asked a federal judge Monday to bypass a trial in favor of a quicker ruling in the case.

HARRISBURG, Pa. — Federal court decisions to overturn bans on same-sex marriage in two conservative states may not have an immediate effect in Pennsylvania, the only northeastern state that does not recognize gay marriages.

HARRISBURG, Pa. — A federal judge hearing a challenge to Pennsylvania’s law banning recognition of same-sex marriages is keeping the case on track for trial by preventing an appellate review at this stage.

HARRISBURG, Pa. — Lawyers in a federal court challenge to Pennsylvania’s law that bans same-sex marriage on Monday accused the state’s lawyers of using delay tactics and making unreasonable and intrusive requests for information from their clients, including whether they were ever in an opposite-sex relationship.

HARRISBURG, Pa. — The trial of a lawsuit challenging Pennsylvania’s gay-marriage ban will be held in June, a federal judge said Friday.

HARRISBURG, Pa. — A federal court challenge to Pennsylvania’s 17-year-old law banning the recognition of same-sex marriages took an important step toward a trial Friday when a judge rejected two different attempts to block the lawsuit.

HARRISBURG, Pa. — Lawyers on both sides of a court challenge to the state’s gay marriage ban have agreed to dismiss Republican Gov. Tom Corbett and Democratic Attorney General Kathleen Kane as defendants.

HARRISBURG, Pa. — A federal judge said Wednesday he would not set a trial date just yet for a lawsuit challenging Pennsylvania’s ban on same-sex marriage.

HARRISBURG, Pa. — Pennsylvania’s governor, its chief legal officer and its health secretary are asking to be released as defendants in a federal lawsuit seeking to overturn the state’s gay-marriage ban.

HARRISBURG, Pa. — Republican Gov. Tom Corbett’s office announced Thursday it has hired a well-known lawyer from outside the government to lead his defense of the state’s same-sex marriage ban in a federal lawsuit.

HARRISBURG, Pa. — Marriage licenses given to same-sex couples in the state are invalid because the couples were barred from marrying, just like 12-year-olds, Republican Gov. Tom Corbett’s attorneys said Wednesday.

HARRISBURG, Pa. — Attorney General Kathleen Kane is firing back at Gov. Tom Corbett over the defense of Pennsylvania’s law that effectively bans same-sex marriage and said it isn’t the governor’s job to tell the attorney general what the office’s duties and obligations are.

PHILADELPHIA — Pennsylvania Attorney General Kathleen Kane will said Thursday that her office will not defend the state in a federal lawsuit that challenges its ban on same-sex marriage.

HARRISBURG, Pa. — The elected official tasked with defending state laws has previously said she supports same-sex marriage, but now faces a decision about whether to defend a Pennsylvania law that bans it.

HARRISBURG, Pa. — Civil rights lawyers filed the first known legal challenge Tuesday on behalf of 23 men, women and children seeking to overturn a 17-year-old state law effectively banning same-sex marriage in Pennsylvania, the only northeastern state that doesn’t allow it or civil unions.