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Maryland holds a unique place in the history of same-sex marriage in the United States. [6] In 1973, it became the first U.S. state in the nation to define marriage as "a union between a man and a woman", expressly banning same-sex marriage.
Question 6 (colloquially called the Maryland same-sex marriage referendum) is a referendum that appeared on the general election ballot for the U.S. state of Maryland to allow voters to approve or reject the Civil Marriage Protection Act—a bill legalizing same-sex marriage passed by the General Assembly in 2012. The referendum was approved by ...
The Montgomery County Courthouse Historic District, designated in 1986, [1] includes several buildings listed on the National Register of Historic Places in Rockville, Maryland. [2] The two-block district is focused on what remains of Rockville's old commercial, governmental, and residential center, most of which was demolished during urban ...
Previously, in 1994, a domestic partners registry had been rejected in Baltimore, [81] the Supreme Court of Maryland had ruled, in December 1998, [82] that trial judges cannot make distinctions between gay and straight parents when deciding child custody cases, and in April 2001, [83] a Maryland court ruled that a lesbian mother was a de facto ...
The Court refused a request for certiorari before judgment in a Louisiana case, Robicheaux v. Caldwell, on January 12. [183] In the weeks that followed, some federal courts suspended proceedings while awaiting a decision from the U.S. Supreme Court. The Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals did so in cases from Florida case, Brenner v.
Same-sex marriage, civil unions and domestic partnerships (limited to state employees only) are all granted throughout the entire state to same-sex couples. [42] [43] [44] City of Champaign [3] Champaign County: Employees of the county. City of Chicago: Limited to same-sex couples. [3] Cook County: Limited to same-sex couples. [3]
May 18: The Maryland Court of Appeals rules unanimously in Port v. Cowan that same-sex marriages established in other states are valid. [200] May 31: A unanimous three-judge panel of the First Circuit Court of Appeals upholds the decisions in Gill and Massachusetts that found section 3 of DOMA unconstitutional. [201]
The Circuit Courts of Maryland are the state trial courts of general jurisdiction in Maryland. They are Maryland's highest courts of record exercising original jurisdiction at law and in equity in all civil and criminal matters, and have such additional powers and jurisdiction as conferred by the Maryland Constitution of 1867 as amended, or by law. [1]