Topic: Massachusetts

Massachusetts chief justice who wrote landmark gay marriage ruling says she's retiringThe Massachusetts chief justice who wrote the state's landmark ruling legalizing gay marriage has announced she's stepping down. Chief Justice Margaret Marshall said Wednesday she will retire in October to spend ...

The White House was mum Friday about plans to appeal a Massachusetts gay marriage ruling, saying only that the administration is 'reviewing the decision'The White House was mum Friday about plans to appeal a Massachusetts gay marriage ruling, saying only that the ...

BOSTON (Reuters) - A U.S. district court judge in Massachusetts ruled on Thursday a federal ban on same-sex marriage is unconstitutional because it interferes with the right of states to define marriage. Judge Joseph Tauro in Boston ruled in favor of gay ...

The federal law banning gay marriage is unconstitutional because it interferes with the right of a state to define the institution and therefore denies married gay couples some federal benefits, a federal judge ruled Thursday in Boston. U.S. District Judge Joseph ruled ...

A federal judge has found a federal law that bans gay marriage to be unconstitutionalA federal judge has found a federal law that bans gay marriage to be unconstitutional. The ruling handed down Thursday by US District Court Judge Joseph L Tauro ...

US judge in Boston rules federal gay marriage ban unconstitutionalA U.S. judge in Boston has ruled that a federal gay marriage ban is unconstitutional because it interferes with the right of a state to define marriage. U.S. District Judge Joseph Tauro on ...

Mass. AG argues against federal gay marriage ban, says law penalizes married gay couplesThe Massachusetts Attorney General has asked a judge to strike down a federal ban on gay marriage because it interferes with state's rights to define marriage. Martha Coakley's office ...

A third federal challenge to restricting marriage to heterosexual couples opens Wednesday in MassachusettsA third federal challenge to restricting marriage to heterosexual couples opens Wednesday in Massachusetts. Massachusetts Attorney General Martha Coakley filed the lawsuit last July on behalf of the 16,000 ...

When government forms inquire of her marital status, Isabelle Barker sometimes resorts to an asterisk and an explanatory note. She and her wife, Cara Palladino, got married five years ago in Massachusetts. Six months later, for job reasons, they moved to Pennsylvania ...

A second federal gay marriage trial is possible as a judge hears arguments in a DOMA challenge A second federal gay marriage trial is possible in a Massachusetts lawsuit that challenges the constitutionality of the Defense Of Marriage Act (DOMA), the 1996 ...