Print— The U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals has blocked — for now — same-sex marriages in Idaho, which had been set to begin Friday morning after a federal judge threw out the Gem State’s constitutional ban on marriage equality. The appeals court issued a temporary stay of Tuesday’s opinion by U.S. Magistrate Judge Candy Dale, who ruled that Idaho’s constitutional ban was discriminatory violated the rights of a minority “The district court’s May 13th order is temporarily stayed pending this court’s deposition of appellants’ emergency motions for a stay pending appeal,” said an order from the San Francisco-based court. Idaho’s Republican Gov. Butch Otter has sought to halt marriage [...]
Reported by SeattlePI.com 5 hours ago.
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