Utah Governor Gary Herbert and Attorney General Sean Reyes filed their petition for certiorari with the United States Supreme Court on August 5, seeking review of the 10th Circuit Court of Appeals’ ruling in Kitchen v. Herbert. At the Supreme Court, the case would be called Herbert v. Kitchen. The 10th Circuit ruled on June 25 that Utah’s ban on same-sex marriage violated the 14th Amendment by depriving same-sex couples of the fundamental right to … <Read More>
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Court of Appeals Argument on Utah’s Appeal of Marriage Ruling Points to Variety of Potential Outcomes
A panel of three judges of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 10th Circuit in Denver heard oral arguments on Thursday, April 10, in Utah’s appeal of a December ruling by U.S. District Judge Robert Shelby that the state’s constitutional and statutory ban on same-sex marriages is unconstitutional. Because both Judge Shelby and a 10th Circuit panel had refused to stay that ruling pending appeal, more than 1,000 same-sex couples married in Utah before … <Read More>