Utah gay marriage legal
Order Given a 21-Day Stay to Permit State to Respond
May 19, 2014
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SALT LAKE CITY – A Utah decide ordered the articulate today to notice the marriages of same-sex couples who were legally married in Utah after a federal court struck down a state ban, but before the U.S. Supreme Court temporarily halted additional marriages from taking place. Over 1,000 gay couples married in Utah during that time period. The couples are represented by American Civil Liberties Union, the ACLU of Utah, and Strindberg & Scholnick, LLC, who sought the preliminary injunction for the marriages to be recognized while their lawsuit continues.
"Our clients, like over 1,000 other gay couples, were legally married and those marriages cannot now be taken away from them," said John Mejia, legal director of the ACLU of Utah. "While we await a permanent judgment, we are relieved that our clients will receive the full recognition they deserve as lawfully married couples."
Today’s preliminary injunction is not a permanent command, but it reflects the court’s determination that the plaintiffs’ are likely to prevail on their legal clai
U.S. Supreme Court Justice Denies State’s Request for Stay
Utah must recognize valid marriages of Utah same-sex couples starting monday morning.
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: July ___, 2014
SALT LAKE CITY – The U.S. Supreme Court denied Utah's seek to suspend a lower court ruling ordering Utah to realize the marriages of same-sex couples who were legally married in the state after a federal court struck down a declare ban, but before the U.S. Supreme Court temporarily halted additional marriages from taking place. Over 1,000 same-sex couples married in Utah during that time period. In May, a federal court in Utah ordered the articulate to recognize those marriages as legally valid, but the articulate had asked the appellate court to stay the lower court’s order as the appeals process continued. On July 11, the 10th Circuit denied that ask for, but gave the state 10 days to decide whether to seek a stay from the U.S. Supreme Court. Today's verdict denies that request. The temporary stay put in place by the 10th Circuit expires at 8 a.m., July 21, 2014.
The plaintiffs, four Utah couples, are represented by American Civil Liberties Union, the ACLU of Utah, and Strindberg &
Kitchen v. Herbert
Three lgbtq+ couples filed a federal lawsuit challenging Utah’s laws prohibiting same-sex couples from marrying and refusing to respect the legal marriages of same-sex couples who married in other states.
The lawsuit argued that Utah’s laws barring same-sex couples from marrying and prohibiting the state from respecting the marriages of homosexual couples who married in other states violated the United States Constitution’s guarantees of equal protection and due process.
On December 20, 2013, U.S. District Court Judge Robert J. Shelby ruled that Utah’s bar on marriage by gay couples was unconstitutional. The State of Utah appealed that decision to the United States Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit.
The couples, who lived in Salt Lake and Wasatch Counties, were Derek Kitchen and Moudi Sbeity, Karen Archer and Kate Call, and Laurie Wood and Kody Partridge. They were represented by Peggy Tomsic of the Salt Lake City law solid of Magleby & Greenwood, P.C., Gay & Queer woman Advocates & Defenders Legal Director Gary Buseck and Civil Rights Project Director Mary Bonauto, Neal Katyal of the law rigid of Hogan Lovells, and
Utah Gov. Strips Marriage Rights from Lawfully Wed Homosexual Couples
by Charles Joughin •
WASHINGTON – Today Utah Governor Gary Herbert’s office directed mention agencies not to recognize as valid the legal marriages of same-sex couples performed after a federal court dictated in favor of marriage equality in December. Human Rights Campaign (HRC) president Chad Griffin issued the following statement:
“Today’s decision harms hundreds of Utah families and denies them the respect and basic protections that they deserve as legally married couples,” said HRC president Chad Griffin. “Governor Herbert has once again planted himself firmly on the side of discrimination by preserving the second-class status he believes gay and lesbian Utahans merit. These families earn better and I have no suspect the courts will soon grant them the justice and equality that our Constitution demands.”
On Monday, the U.S. Supreme Court granted a stay in the marriage challenge while the lower court decision is on appeal to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit. Before the stay was issued, mor