Gay Marriage Cases Revisited in Idaho and Arkansas
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS MAY 15, 2014
A federal appeals court panel on Thursday temporarily delayed plans for Idaho same-sex weddings while it considered the state’s request for a longer stay. The state’s gay marriage ban was overturned Tuesday when a federal magistrate judge, Candy W. Dale, said the law unconstitutionally denied gay residents their fundamental right to marry. Judge Dale had said Idaho must begin issuing marriage licenses to same-sex couples starting Friday morning. A three-judge panel of the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit issued a temporary stay as it considered whether a longer stay was needed while Gov. C. L. (Butch) Otter and Attorney General Lawrence Wasden appealed the case.
Also Thursday, a judge cleared the way for gay marriages to resume in Arkansas, striking down all state laws that prevent them. Judge Chris Piazza of the Pulaski County Circuit Court expanded his ruling striking down a constitutional ban to also include the prohibition on clerks issuing same-sex marriage licenses. He acted a day after the State Supreme Court had ruled that his decision on the gay marriage ban did not change that license law. Attorney General Dustin McDaniel said he would appeal and was asking that the new order be suspended.
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