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Sixth Circuit Timing Means That 300 Same-Sex Couples in Michigan Are In Legal Limbo While Gay Marriage Appeal Goes Forward

By Steve Delchin on April 1, 2014 Posted in News and Analysis, Recent Cases

As you know from our recent coverage, Judge Bernard A. Friedman of the Eastern District of Michigan entered an order late in the day on Friday, March 21, 2014 striking down Michigan’s ban on same-sex marriage as violating the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment. See Judgment, DeBoer, et al. v. Snyder, et al., … Continue Reading