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More Same-Sex News from Massachusetts

By ALM Staff | Law Journal Newsletters |
March 30, 2005

Massachusetts' Supreme Judicial Court agreed on Jan. 29 to hear an appeal to a case that last summer upheld application of a state law that prevents out-of-state same-sex couples from marrying in Massachusetts.

The underlying suit, Cote-Whitacre v. Department of Public Health, was brought by Gay and Lesbian Advocates and Defenders (GLAD), a gay-rights organization, on behalf of eight couples from six states. These couples hoped to marry in Massachusetts after the Supreme Judicial Court held in Goodridge v. Department of Public Health that gay couples had the constitutional right to marry under state law.

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