Ohio AG to appeal ruling requiring recognition of same-sex marriage

[JURIST] Ohio Attorney General Mike DeWine [official website] on Thursday filed notice of his plans to appeal to the US Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit, [official website] a December ruling [text, PDF] that requires the state to recognize valid out-of-state marriages between same-sex couples on Ohio death certificates. The ruling, made last month by Judge Timothy Black, found that by treating lawful same-sex marriages differently than it treats lawful opposite sex marriages, Ohio law violates the US Constitution...

Source: http://jurist.org/paperchase/2014/01/ohio-ag-plans-to-appeal-ruling-requiring-state-to-recognize-same-sex-marriage.php

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