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Decision Barring Additional Parties to Connecticut Marriage Case
Gay & Lesbian Advocates & Defenders (GLAD) expressed satisfaction with the decision of the New Haven Superior Court barring the Family Institute of Connecticut (FIC) and two town clerks as parties to the marriage equality case Kerrigan & Mock v. Connecticut Department of Public Health.
Judge Patty …
Statement of GLAD on Doyle v. Goodridge
Yesterday, the Supreme Judicial Court of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts scheduled oral arguments in the case of C. Joseph Doyle vs. Hillary Goodridge et al. Arguments will take place in April 2005.
The Doyle case was one of numerous attempts to block the May 17, 2004 implementation of the …
GLAD Hails Senator Kennedy’s Steady Support for GLBT Rights
Boston, MA) Gay & Lesbian Advocates & Defenders today praised long-time civil rights champion Senator Edward Kennedy for remarks he made in support of marriage rights for GLBT people, and against workplace discrimination. Kennedy’s comments came in a speech he made on the future of the Democratic …
GLAD Flags Tax Issues for Married Same-Sex Couples
(Boston, MA) With the turn of the year, many people’s thoughts turn to income taxes. For more than 4,200 same-sex couples who married in Massachusetts in 2004, filing this time around is presenting new challenges.
Gay & Lesbian Advocates & Defenders (GLAD), the legal organization that won the …
GLAD Hails Supreme Court’s Refusal to Hear Challenge to Goodridge
Gay & Lesbian Advocates & Defenders (GLAD) was pleased but not surprised that the United States Supreme Court declined to hear Largess v. Supreme Judicial Court of the State of Massachusetts. The case was one of many challenges to Goodridge v Department of Public Health, the November 2003 SJC …
Lesbian Mother Has No Obligation to Pay Child Support
(Boston, MA) Gay & Lesbian Advocates & Defenders (GLAD) today expressed disappointment in a decision of the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court in a case involving two lesbians who were in a relationship and mutually decided to conceive and raise a child together by the insemination of one of the …
Suit to End Connecticut’s Exclusion of Same-Sex Couples
(Hartford, CT) Seven gay and lesbian couples from across Connecticut who were recently denied marriage licenses in Madison filed suit today in New Haven Superior Court challenging the State’s discriminatory denial of marriage rights to same-sex couples. The plaintiff couples, who have been in …
Superior Court Denies Immediate Relief to Non-Resident Couples
A Massachusetts trial judge today declined immediate relief to the eight out-of-state gay and lesbian couples, represented by Gay and Lesbian Advocates and Defenders (GLAD), who filed the lawsuit challenging the constitutionality and discriminatory enforcement of the so-called 1913 Law. The law is …
Two Lawsuits Seek Immediate Relief from Governor’s Edict
On the one-month anniversary of the first marriage licenses granted to gay and lesbian couples, two lawsuits were announced today challenging the constitutionality and discriminatory enforcement under Massachusetts Laws, Chapter 207 Section 11 (the 1913 Reverse Evasion statute). Section 11 is being …
GLAD Optimistic After Federal Appeals Court Hearing Today
(Boston, MA) After an emergency ruling on May 14, 2004 that found no merit to a federal lawsuit that sought to stop the issuance of marriage licenses to lesbian and gay couples, the United States Court of Appeals today heard arguments in the full appeal of the case. The case is Robert Largess et …