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U.S. judge mulls overturning federal marriage law

OIA Staff — Fri, 13 Jan 2012 03:45:22 +0000

A U.S. judge appeared sympathetic to a lesbian federal employees bid to strike down a law denying health-insurance benefits to her spouse, in the first hearing since the Obama administration decided to quit defending the statute.U.S. District Judge Jeffrey White heard two hours of arguments on Friday at a hearing on a challenge to the [...]

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Gay Marriage Repeal Bill Clears New Hampshire House Panel

OIA Staff — Fri, 28 Oct 2011 16:17:18 +0000

A bill that would repeal New Hampshire’s gay marriage law cleared a House committee on Tuesday. The House Judiciary Committee approved the bill with an 11 to 6 vote. If approved, the bill, introduced by Rep. David Bates, a Republican from Windham, would repeal the state’s gay marriage law. via. Read the full article @ [...]

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Supreme Court Rejects Appeal by D.C. Marriage Equality Opponents

OIA Staff — Tue, 18 Jan 2011 17:45:52 +0000

An appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court by Bishop Harry Jackson and opponents of same-sex marriage in the District of Columbia has been rejected. Jackson had been seeking to put a proposal on the ballot to overturn the District’s marriage law that gives same-sex couple the same rights to marriage as their heterosexual counterparts. via. [...]

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Supreme Court expected to rule on Gay Marriage in D.C.

OIA Staff — Thu, 13 Jan 2011 14:10:48 +0000

The U.S. Supreme Court is expected to announce an opinion Tuesday on whether to allow voters to repeal the Washington D.C. equal marriage law. Jackson v. the D.C. Board of Elections and Ethics is scheduled to be discussed at a private conference among the Justices on Friday, according to the Washington Blade. via. Read the [...]

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Iceland Likely to Permit Gay Marriage by June

OIA Staff — Thu, 08 Apr 2010 16:04:46 +0000

Iceland, the tiny island country of 320,000 people in the North Atlantlc, will likely be the next nation to legalize same-sex marriage. Openly lesbian prime minister Johanna Sigurdardóttir presented a revision to current marriage law to the Icelandic parliament on March 23. The revision is widely expected to become law, and if (or when) it [...]

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National Organization for Marriage Loses Effort to Keep Names of Donors Disclosed in Maine

OIA Staff — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 18:50:25 +0000

The New Jersey-based National Organization for Marriage (NOM) has been fighting to keep the names of donors to the “Yes on 1″ campaign in Maine private. They lost: “Judge D. Brock Hornby ruled that Maine’s reporting requirements for ballot question campaigns do not violate the First Amendment of the U.S. Constitution as claimed in a [...]

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Washington Judge OK’ s Referendum 71 Certification (BUT)

OIA Staff — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 21:33:11 +0000

In Washington, Judge Julie Spector has decided not to block Referendum 71 from being being certified. But her decision may be procedural rather than based on content. (Seattle PI) Spector said challenges to a referendum must be filed in Thurston County Superior Court after certification – and supporters of the “everything but marriage” law still [...]

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