California Supreme Court voids San Francisco gay marriages
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California's Supreme Court voided the marriages of 4,000 gay couples wed in the city of San Francisco, ruling that its mayor had overstepped his powers by blessing the unions.
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The Supreme Court steered clear of a dispute over gay adoptions on Monday, energizing conservatives who want other states to copy Florida's one-of-a-kind ban on gays adopting children.
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WASHINGTON - The US Supreme Court on Monday rejected a challenge to the country&#39;s only law legalizing gay marriage. Conservative groups had asked the court to overturn a November 2003 ruling by the Massachusetts
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SAN FRANCISCO - Laws limiting marriage to a man and a woman do not run afoul of California's constitution, Attorney General Bill Lockyer declared Friday in a long-awaited legal opinion that sought to avoid offending either side in the gay marriage debate.    In answering two lawsuits seeking to put California on par with Massachusetts, where gay marriage is legal, Lockyer said it was up to voters or the Legislature to decide whether to change "the common and traditional understanding" of matrimony that "pre-dates the founding of this state or nation."  "There is simply no deeply rooted tradition of same-sex marriage in California or in any other state," he said, while acknowledging that "committed and loving relationships between two individuals deserve recognition under California law."   The lawsuits claim California's marriage laws violate the state constitution's anti-discrimination provisions, an argument Lockyer rejected in the 37-page brief...
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The highest courts in two states dealt gay rights advocates dual setbacks Thursday, rejecting same-sex couples&#039; bid to win marriage rights in New York and reinstating a constitutional amendment banning gay marriage in Georgia.
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The Supreme Court rejected an appeal Monday by four men who challenged Florida's ban on adoption by gay couples, avoiding another contentious fight over gay rights.
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In what is believed to be the first ruling of its kind, a judge on Wednesday upheld the federal law letting states ban same-sex marriages, dismissing a lawsuit by two women seeking to have their Massachusetts marriage recognized here.
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France s first gay marriage - performed last month in the southwest city of Bordeaux - was officially declared void by a court on Tuesday.
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Refusing to wade into the debate over gay marriage in Massachusetts, the US Supreme Court yesterday rejected a bid to overturn a landmark court ruling legalizing gay marriage in the Bay State.
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The US Supreme Court today refused to accept a challenge to the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court ruling that allowed same-sex marriages to begin in that state last year.
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Voting 9 to 0, the U.S. Supreme Court overturned a ruling by the federal appeals court in New York that found the system for choosing nominees to the stateâs trial court unconstitutional.
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A judge in the US state of Iowa strikes down a ban on same-sex marriages as unconstitutional.
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A California appeals court upheld the state's ban on same-sex marriage on Thursday, reversing a lower court's judgment against a voter-approved law defining marriage as the union of a man and a woman.
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Committed gay couples can be  granted the same rights as married heterosexuals but should not  be allowed to marry, California's top legal official said in a  court filing on Friday.
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The Supreme Court has refused to intervene on behalf of a handful of religious extremists whose feelings were hurt by gay marriage in Massachusetts... The US Supreme Court has rejected without comment an appeal
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BOSTON -- Out-of-state gay couples barred from getting married in Massachusetts said Thursday they would appeal a judge&#39;s ruling that denied their request to halt enforcement of the 1913 law being used to block their unions.
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By Linda Thomson Deseret Morning News  The U.S. Supreme Court has dealt a blow to environmentalist groups by refusing to hear an appeal that a Utah constitutional amendment infringed upon First Amendment free-speech rights.