Tuesday, August 19, 2014

Indiana: US District judge strikes down same-sex marriage ban - again


Bilerico has the details:

This afternoon, Judge Young sided with the plaintiffs in Bowling v. Pence, the last remaining same-sex marriage case in Indiana. The plaintiffs sued to force the state to recognize their legal same-sex marriages performed elsewhere.

Young ordered the state to stop enforcing all Indiana laws preventing same-sex couples from equal treatment in marriage, allow married same-sex couples to file joint tax returns, and provide the same benefits and services to married same-sex couples as it does to married opposite-sex couples.

Judge Young stayed today's order until the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals rules in the case, or in any of the other Indiana marriage equality cases.

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