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...kind of remedy it requires]," he says. Maybe. It was a narrow ruling, so the legislature might craft a solution so nuanced that it lures one of the four majority judges to the other side. Most legal scholars think the court won't be satisfied with anything short of same-sex marriages...
...Massachusetts would be likely to sue in their home states to claim the benefits of marriage in such areas as joint property, health insurance, child custody and inheritance. The federal Defense of Marriage Act of 1996 mandates that no state is required to recognize another's same-sex marriages. But no state has performed a gay marriage yet, so the law has never been tested in the courts...
Cambridge will have to wait for the Massachusetts legislature to act on last week’s state court decision allowing same-sex marriages, despite an earlier proposal by two city councillors to begin issuing licenses to gay couples immediately...
Jennifer Hess displayed her city-issued domestic partnership card and said she hoped Cambridge would be among the first cities to extend marriage benefits to same-sex couples...
...said the New Zealand parliament has been discussing adoption and couple status for gays for the past few years, possibly working its way towards a decision like the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court’s recent ruling that it’s unconstitutional to deny same-sex couples the benefits of marriage...