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Suit to Challenge 1913 Mass. Marriage Law.

Eight same-sex couples and 12 municipal clerks said Thursday they will mount a legal challenge to the 1913 law used to block out-of-state same-sex couples from marrying in Massachusetts. The groups said they would file two lawsuits Friday claiming the state law is unconstitutional and that it's discriminatory to enforce it against same-sex couples. After the state's Supreme...

Suit to Challenge 1913 Mass. Marriage Law.

A 1913 law that went virtually unnoticed for almost a century may take center stage in the battle over gay marriage in Massachusetts. The law prohibits clerks from issuing licenses to couples if the marriage would not be legal in their home state. After the state's Supreme Judicial Court ruled in November...

Lawsuits target 1913 Mass. marriage law

As same-sex couples began marrying on May 17, town clerks were ordered to check the affidavits signed by gay couples to make sure that the couples either lived in the state or were planning to move to Massachusetts. Both Reilly and Romney had previously announced that the 1913 law effectively barred all nonresident same-sex marriages, because no other state had legalized them. When several towns declined to follow orders, Romney demanded the paperwork for out-of-state newlyweds and will likely try and vitiate those marriages once he receives the documents. Meanwhile, Reilly ordered the towns to cease issuing nonresident licenses or face

Mass. high court to hear challenge to marriage law

Boston, Feb. 25, 2005 (LifesiteNews.com/CWN) - The Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court has accepted a challenge to the state law banning same-sex couples from out-of-state getting married there. The 1913 law bars marriage for couples whose union would be illegal in their home state. The court agreed to hear the case in late January, but the decision was not made public until now. The hearings are scheduled to proceed in September. In a 4-3 split decision, the Massachusetts high court ruled in November 2003 that denial of marriage to homosexual persons violates the state's constitution. It demanded that the legislature alter

Lawyers argue 1913 marriage law in Mass.

Lawyers clashed in a Massachusetts courtroom Tuesday, arguing the pros and cons of a 1913 state law that purports to ban non-resident marriages if those marriages would be void in a couple's home state. Michele Granda of Gay and Lesbian Advocates and Defenders (GLAD) represented eight same-sex couples from outside the Bay State. Five of those couples were married in Massachusetts before the state attorney general, Thomas Reilly, ordered town clerks to desist from granting marriage licenses to non-residents. The other three plaintiff couples were turned away at the figurative altar. The 1913 law, enacted during a period of national hysteria over