Topic: Massachusetts

While all eyes were on California, where a very high-profile case about same-sex marriage is moving to a judge's ruling, a federal judge in Massachusetts handed down rulings in a pair of cases that struck at the heart of the Defense of ...

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 couples' ...

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 in ...

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 Thursday ...

Judge Vaughn Walker, a judicial appointee of former President George H. W. Bush, handed down a decision that has to count as a political shocker insofar as he was prepared to overturn Proposition 8, which was subject to such a hardcore political ...

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 challenged ...

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 — ...