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Oct. 17th, 2014 06:52 pmMarriage Equality has come/is coming to another 3 states officially.
The stay in Alaska expired at noon and was not re-instated. Arizona's ban was found unconstitutional this morning and Wyoming's this afternoon. The Governor's office, which tweeted last week that the decision in the 10th circuit, (which is where the state IS) was not going to effect them, has said today that the state is not going to appeal the federal court's ruling from this morning, SO marriages should be starting there as early as Monday. Marriage licenses were given in Alaska and Arizona today.
There are 3 more states that have not come over yet that are covered by the rulings made at the circuit courts of appeals, namely South Carolina (4th), Kansas (10th) and Montana (9th), but I would not be surprised for them to come over in the course of next week.
We await a decision in the 6th on Michigan, Ohio, Kentucky and Tennessee, but the closer we get to election day, the more I suspect we'll not get a ruling prior.
Next month the 5th will hear the appeals of DeLeon (Texas), as well as an appeal of Feldman's ruling in Louisiana. Arkansas is moving ahead in the state Supreme Court and there is an appeal brewing in Florida in the 11th. There's a part of me that's finally starting to wonder, with the speed of how things are going, if this will ever wind up back in front of SCOTUS. Don't want to give it the evil eye, but will we get a split in the circuits?
The stay in Alaska expired at noon and was not re-instated. Arizona's ban was found unconstitutional this morning and Wyoming's this afternoon. The Governor's office, which tweeted last week that the decision in the 10th circuit, (which is where the state IS) was not going to effect them, has said today that the state is not going to appeal the federal court's ruling from this morning, SO marriages should be starting there as early as Monday. Marriage licenses were given in Alaska and Arizona today.
There are 3 more states that have not come over yet that are covered by the rulings made at the circuit courts of appeals, namely South Carolina (4th), Kansas (10th) and Montana (9th), but I would not be surprised for them to come over in the course of next week.
We await a decision in the 6th on Michigan, Ohio, Kentucky and Tennessee, but the closer we get to election day, the more I suspect we'll not get a ruling prior.
Next month the 5th will hear the appeals of DeLeon (Texas), as well as an appeal of Feldman's ruling in Louisiana. Arkansas is moving ahead in the state Supreme Court and there is an appeal brewing in Florida in the 11th. There's a part of me that's finally starting to wonder, with the speed of how things are going, if this will ever wind up back in front of SCOTUS. Don't want to give it the evil eye, but will we get a split in the circuits?
