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Arizona Files Appeal To Overturn Ruling That Gays Can Marry


Tom Horne - Photo by Gage Skidmore
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Howard Fischer writing for the Capitol Media Serivces on November 18, 2014, "The Attorney General’s Office is asking a federal appeals court to overturn a judge’s ruling that says gays can marry.

But its top litigator insists it’s not because he wants to stop same-sex weddings.

Attorney General Tom Horne filed a notice Monday with the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals seeking review of the decision by U.S. District Judge John Sedwick that voided both state law and a voter-approved constitutional provision defining marriage in Arizona as solely between one man and one woman.

Since that ruling, gays have been allowed to wed here, and Arizona has recognized same-sex marriages performed in other states.

But Robert Ellman, the state’s solicitor general, is telling lawyers for those who sued that they should not be concerned the marriages will stop. Instead, he simply wants to see if there’s a way the state can avoid paying the legal fees of the challengers. ..."

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