New
Same-Sex Marriage Case (December 12th)
Today, North Carolina legislatures
notified federal courts that they would soon be asking the Supreme Court to
rule on the constitutionality of the state’s ban on same-sex marriage. This is the second case filed from the Fourth
Circuit area for the Supreme Court, the first being a South Carolina petition
as yet not filed.
The Justices have not yet reacted to
the new round of cases, but they will be prepared to do so come January 2015.
UPDATE:
January 9th
The Ohio petition has since been
added to the number of cases, as well as several of the cases that the Supreme
Court refused to review on October 6th, one of them being the ban in
Virginia. Ohio’s petition grew out of
two cases within the state that surround the “recognition” issue; when states
do not officially recognize married same-sex couples.
The Court has been considering some
of the cases since the beginning of the month, and will possibly be addressing
them in today’s January 9th Conference.
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