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Civil Rights

Oct. 20, 2012

Pressure rises on U.S. Supreme Court to decide constitutionality of anti-gay marriage law

Pressure intensified Thursday for the U.S. Supreme Court to consider the federal law banning recognition of same-sex marriage as another federal appellate court found the statute unconstitutional.


By John Roemer


Daily Journal Staff Writer


Pressure intensified Thursday for the U.S. Supreme Court to consider the federal law banning recognition of same-sex marriage as another federal appellate court found the statute unconstitutional.


New York's 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals upped the ante by becoming the first federal appellate court to decide that government discrimination that keeps gay people from getting federal benefits in th...

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