Federal judge rules Ohio must recognize out-of-state same-sex marriages

[JURIST] Judge Timothy Black of the US District Court for the Southern District of Ohio [official website] ruled [opinion, text] on Monday that Ohio authorities must recognize same-sex marriages legally performed in other states. The court found that the state's refusal to recognize such marriages violates the Due Process Clause, Equal Protection Clause and Full Faith and Credit Clause [Cornell LII backgrounders] of the US Constitution. This does not force Ohio to allow same-sex marriages to be performed within the...

Source: http://jurist.org/paperchase/2014/04/federal-judge-rules-ohio-must-recognize-out-of-state-same-sex-marriages.php

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