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India: With Protection Order, Court Also Recognizes Lesbian Marriage

Friday, July 29th, 2011

Same-sex marriages are not legal in India. But that did not stop a Gurgaon court from effectively recognizing a marriage between two lesbians.

While granting police protection to a runaway lesbian couple from Khekada village in Baghpat, additional sessions judge Vimal Kumar recorded matter-of-factly that Beena and Savita claimed to be married to each other.

Their statements were recorded in the order without any indication that such a marriage had no legal status. “We have married to each other on July 22, 2011 of our own free will without coercion, duress, fraud, misrepresentation etc,” it stated.

Full Story from the Times of India

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Costa Rica: Court Temporarily Blocks Referendum on Gay Marriage

Saturday, July 3rd, 2010

The Sala Constitucional (Constitutional Court) has ordered the Tribunal Supremo de Elecciones (TSE) to suspend the process of the referendum on same sex marriages that was to have been included in the December 2010 municipal elections.

The court order was based on an appeal filed against the referendum.

The Recurso Amparo (appeal) was presented by an individual identified only by the last names, Quirós Salazar, alleging that the referendum violates the rights and freedoms of individuals.

Full Story from Inside Costa Rica

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UT: State Supreme Court Validates Divorce for Couple Never Married; Could Impact Gay Marriage Fight

Saturday, May 8th, 2010

A Utah Supreme Court ruling issued Friday could open a door to recognition of gay marriage, polygamy and underage marriage in Utah, an attorney says. Denver Snuffer believes the ruling about a divorce decree will have wide-ranging and unintended implications for the concept of marriage. But his opponent, attorney Rosemond Blakelock, whose client won under the ruling, says such a belief is poppycock.

She said the high court’s decision will apply only in a very narrow fashion to one Utah couple and perhaps a few others who are in the same situation, but she predicts this ruling will not produce the “wild things” that Snuffer fears and will not influence unions that do not already exist under state law.

The Utah Supreme Court, in a unanimous decision, ruled that a 4th District judge who issued a divorce decree to Neldon and Ina Johnson in 2001 did have the authority to do that.

Full Story from Deseret News

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Moldova: Court Tells Gay Activists to Move Rally to Secluded Park to “Protect Public Morality”

Thursday, May 6th, 2010

At the mayor’s request, a court in the Moldovan capital of Chisinau on April 28 ruled that leading gay group GenderDoc-M could not stage a May 2 rally in the city center in support of an anti-discrimination law.

The court said the rally, the culmination of five days of LGBT Pride events, must take place in a secluded park away from downtown, to protect public order and morality. GenderDoc-M refused to abide by the ruling and canceled the demonstration.

Moldova has previously blocked public gay Pride events and, in 2007, the nation’s Supreme Court ruled that a ban of a 2006 Pride event had been illegal and a violation of the European Convention on Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms.

Full Story from the BAR

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DC: Appeals Court to Hear Gay Marriage Case Today

Tuesday, May 4th, 2010

The D.C. Court of Appeals is scheduled to hear arguments Tuesday over gay marriage. In January, a D.C. Superior Court judge threw out a lawsuit by a Maryland pastor who wanted to put a measure on the D.C. ballot to define marriage as between a man and a woman.

Bishop Harry Jackson sued after the Board of Elections and Ethics refused to approve the ballot initiative, saying it would violate the city’s Human Rights Act. The judge said the city was right.

Tuesday’s appeals court hearing will be before the full court. It’s rare for all of the judges to hear a case before it has been heard by a three-judge appeals panel, particularly when the lawyers in the case didn’t request the en banc hearing. Gay marriage became legal in Washington in March.

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Full Story from the Washington Post

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TX: Attorneys Argue Gay Divorce Case in Court

Thursday, April 22nd, 2010

A man seeking to end his same-sex marriage in Dallas County is arguing an ironic point in a state that doesn’t recognize his nuptials: Grant the divorce and there will be one less gay marriage in Texas.

“My client is a married man and he needs a divorce,” said the man’s attorney, Jody Scheske, who argued that granting the divorce promotes the state’s policy against gay marriage. “But for the actions of the attorney general, there would already be one less same-sex marriage in Texas.”

That argument came Wednesday before a three-judge panel in the Fifth District Court of Appeals in Dallas that is hearing arguments after Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott appealed a state district judge’s ruling in October to grant the divorce. In her decision, Judge Tena Callahan also ruled that the state’s ban on gay marriage is unconstitutional.

Full Story from Dallas News

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NY: Court Says State Can Annul Civil Unions

Sunday, March 21st, 2010

Gays and lesbians can’t get married in New York, but they can get an annulment. A mid-level state appeals court has ruled that even though New York doesn’t have a civil union law, its courts do have the power to annul a same-sex union made in another state.

The case involved two Schenectady County women who entered into a civil union in Vermont in 2003, but separated three years later.

One went to Vermont to get the union annulled, but was told she needed to live there a year before she could apply.

Full Story from WCBS

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