May 2008
Ruling Adverse to Foreign Same-Sex Union Is Vacated
In vacating a lower court ruling, the Appellate Division, Second Department, at the end of March, wiped off the books the sole remaining decision refusing to recognize same-sex marriages solemnized in other jurisdictions. To prevent the lower court’s ruling from being “used as a precedent in future cases,” a unanimous panel in an unsigned opinion vacated a Long Island judge’s 2006 decision that denied recognition to a gay couple’s Canadian marriage.
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