Plaintiffs in Utah Gay Marriage Case Ask for SCOTUS Review

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Plaintiffs in Utah Gay Marriage Case Ask for SCOTUS Review
by Brady McCombs
Associated Press
Friday Aug 29, 2014

Attorneys for three Utah gay and lesbian couples formally asked the U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday to take Utah's appeal of a favorable same-sex marriage ruling, following through on what they said they would do earlier this month.

The plaintiffs say they are taking this somewhat unusual step of asking for a review even though they won at the federal appellate court level because they want the Supreme Court to weigh in on whether state same-sex marriage bans violate the Constitution.

"Lower courts around the country have correctly recognized that state laws prohibiting same-sex couples from marrying violate the Constitution," the plaintiffs' attorneys wrote. "Yet because these rulings do not apply nationwide, same-sex couples continue to experience great uncertainty and serious harm."...

...Utah state officials filed their request for the justices to hear an appeal of a June ruling from the Denver-based 10th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, which found states cannot deprive gay and lesbian couples of the right to marry. The state argued that a review by the high court is necessary for an issue that has been "percolating" for four decades, with current court rulings across the country causing legal chaos....

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1. Your creating a big problem

for Orin Hatch and his Utah delegation. Talk about group of Politicians with out a original thought. I hope all of persons involved win big time. Utah needs to be shaken up.