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Same-sex couples poised to marry in Alabama after stay denied
Source: Reuters
Same-sex couples poised to marry in Alabama after stay denied
BY COLLEEN JENKINS
Tue Feb 3, 2015 2:06pm EST
(Reuters) - Same-sex weddings could begin in Alabama next week after a U.S. appeals court on Tuesday refused a request by the state's attorney general to delay gay marriages until the U.S. Supreme Court decides whether states can forbid them.
The 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals denied Alabama Attorney General Luther Strange's motion for an extended stay in a brief order that clears the way for the conservative state to become the 37th in the United States to allow gay couples to wed.
Strange said he was disappointed by the ruling and immediately filed a motion asking the U.S. Supreme Court to halt the decision by a federal judge that struck down Alabama's laws banning same-sex marriages last month.
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BY COLLEEN JENKINS
Tue Feb 3, 2015 2:06pm EST
(Reuters) - Same-sex weddings could begin in Alabama next week after a U.S. appeals court on Tuesday refused a request by the state's attorney general to delay gay marriages until the U.S. Supreme Court decides whether states can forbid them.
The 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals denied Alabama Attorney General Luther Strange's motion for an extended stay in a brief order that clears the way for the conservative state to become the 37th in the United States to allow gay couples to wed.
Strange said he was disappointed by the ruling and immediately filed a motion asking the U.S. Supreme Court to halt the decision by a federal judge that struck down Alabama's laws banning same-sex marriages last month.
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Read more: http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/02/03/us-usa-gaymarriage-alabama-idUSKBN0L728K20150203
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