Wright v. Arkansas

A former Supreme Court justice who helped strike down Arkansas’ ban on gay foster parents and an ex-legislator who tried to reinstate that prohibition were appointed Tuesday to help decide a case related to the challenge over same-sex marriage.

Arkansas Gov. Asa Hutchinson says he’ll quickly appoint three special justices to hear a case a majority of the state Supreme Court says must be addressed before they can rule on whether to legalize same-sex marriage.

The couples challenging Arkansas’ same-sex marriage ban are asking the state’s highest court to lift its stay in the case and allow clerks to resume issuing same-sex marriage licenses.

An attorney representing same-sex couples in Arkansas says her clients who received marriage licenses are “stuck in limbo” while state and federal courts consider whether gay marriage should be legal in the state.

The Arkansas Supreme Court wants lawyers in a same-sex marriage case to tell it which justices they believe should decide the issue.

Attorney General Leslie Rutledge is asking the Arkansas Supreme Court to hold new oral arguments in the lawsuit challenging the state’s same-sex marriage ban.

The Arkansas Supreme Court’s biggest piece of unfinished business as it wraps up 2014 is whether the state’s ban on same-sex marriage is constitutional.

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. — 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 …