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Same-sex marriage became temporarily legal in Utah on December 20, 2013, as a result of a ruling from the U.S. District Court for the District of Utah. The U.S. Supreme Court stayed the ruling on January 6, 2014, while the Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals in Denver considered the case. [ 3 ]
On December 24, the Governor ordered state agencies to comply with the ruling, [36] and by December 26, all Utah counties were issuing marriage licenses to same-sex couples. [37] Within a week of the ruling, Utah had issued about 900 marriage licenses to same-sex couples. [38]
Same-sex marriage was also legal in Utah from December 20, 2013 to January 6, 2014. In response to the 1993 Baehr v. Miike court case on same-sex marriage in Hawaii, Representative Norm L. Nielsen (R-Utah County) sponsored the bill H.B. 366 ("Recognition of Marriages") in 1995. The bill passed the State Legislature. It prohibited state ...
On December 20, 2013, U.S. District Court Judge Robert J. Shelby found Utah's same-sex marriage ban unconstitutional in Kitchen v. Herbert. [95] Salt Lake County began issuing marriage licenses immediately, followed by other counties, [96] until the state obtained a stay from the U.S. Supreme Court on January 6, 2014. [97]
By RYAN GORMAN The Supreme Court effectively made same-sex marriage legal Monday in 11 additional states. The nation's highest court declined to review petitions from lower courts whose ...
Gary Richard Herbert (born May 7, 1947) is an American politician who served as the 17th governor of Utah from 2009 to 2021. A member of the Republican Party, he chaired the National Governors Association during the 2015–2016 cycle.
The first openly gay judge in the United States was Stephen M. Lachs, appointed by Governor Jerry Brown to the Los Angeles County Superior Court in 1979. [141] Before leaving office in 1981, Brown appointed three more gay and lesbian judges to the California courts, including the nation's first openly lesbian judge, Mary Morgan, who served on ...
The Respect for Marriage Act repeals a provision in the 1996 Defense of Marriage Act that allowed states to discriminate against same-sex couples, and says that “an individual shall be ...