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Equality news round-up: Virginia updates, and more

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– Virginia’s attorney general has filed a notice in Harris v. McDonnell telling the court he’ll no longer defend the state’s marriage equality ban in the case. The Harris case is a class-action filed by Lambda Legal, along with the ACLU and the ACLU of Virginia. His office has already filed the same notice in Bostic v. Rainey, the case that AFER attorneys Ted Olson and David Boies have joined. It appears from his answer to the complaint, filed along with the notice, that he’ll still oppose the class-action aspect of the Harris case.

– Gay and Lesbian Advocates and Defenders’ (GLAD) Mary Bonauto is joining the legal team fighting Michigan’s same-sex marriage and adoption bans in DeBoer v. Snyder. (EqualityOnTrial has previously reported on new counsel in the DeBoer case here.

– Richard Socarides has a New Yorker piece on United States v. Windsor.

– A Louisiana district court judge has declined to “unconsolidate” two marriage equality cases challenging the state’s ban. The parties had requested it so that one case could continue while the other is appealed.

– Northern Cyprus has decriminalized same-sex intimacy, and now it’s legal throughout Europe.

Thanks to Kathleen Perrin for these filings

For more information on Bostic v. Rainey (formerly Bostic v. McDonnell)from The Civil Rights Litigation Clearinghouse, click here.

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4 Comments

  • 1. Policy and Legal Update &&hellip  |  February 3, 2014 at 7:25 am

    […] VIRGINIA  •  On 27 Januar y2014, in Joanne Harris, et al. v. Staunton, VA Court Clerk, et al., a federal class action lawsuit for two couples seeking full marriage equality for all VA residents, including couples married elsewhere, VA Attorney General Mark Herring notified the court that VA’s state laws banning same-gender civil marriage are unconstitutional, that VA is reversing its position in the case, that he will not defend them, and that he will argue that they are unconstitutional.  •  MEUSA Summary  •  News Source […]

  • 2. Equality On TrialOne chal&hellip  |  February 3, 2014 at 4:41 pm

    […] Attorney General Mark Herring has filed a notice in the Harris case telling the court he believes Virginia’s ban is unconstitutional and […]

  • 3. Policy and Legal Update &&hellip  |  February 10, 2014 at 7:00 am

    […] LOUISIANA  •  On 27 January 2014, in Jonathan Robicheaux and Derek Pinton, et al. v. LA Attorney General James Caldwell, a federal case challenging the LA constitutional amendment and state law banning same-gender civil marriage, and banning LA recognition of same-gender couples married elsewhere, Judge Martin Feldman denied a request to un-consolidate this case (#2013-cv-05090) from another case (#2014-cv-00097).  •  MEUSA Summary  •  News Source […]

  • 4. Policy and Legal Update &&hellip  |  February 17, 2014 at 7:01 am

    […] LOUISIANA  •  On 27 January 2014, in Jonathan Robicheaux and Derek Pinton, et al. v. LA Attorney General James Caldwell, a federal case challenging the LA constitutional amendment and state law banning same-gender civil marriage, and banning LA recognition of same-gender couples married elsewhere, Judge Martin Feldman denied a request to un-consolidate this case (#2013-cv-05090) from another case (#2014-cv-00097).  •  MEUSA Summary  •  News Source […]

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