http://www.metafilter.com/tags/statelaw Posts tagged with 'statelaw' at MetaFilter. Fri, 10 Oct 2008 09:13:46 -0800 Fri, 10 Oct 2008 09:13:46 -0800 en-us http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss 60 http://www.metafilter.com/75548/The%2Dstates%2Dof%2Dmarriage Just as a California campaign for a <a href="http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/blogs/sfgate/detail?blogid=14&entry_id=31285">Constitutional</a> <a href="http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/10/06/MNHB1388I5.DTL&hw=prop&sn=010&sc=272">ban</a> on <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/29/opinion/29mon3.html?ref=opinion">same-sex marriage</a> (allowed since <a href="http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/06/16/MNDB118S9N.DTL">June 16, 2008</a>) is heating up the <a href="http://www.boston.com/news/local/connecticut/articles/2008/10/10/conn_supreme_court_ruling_same_sex_marriage_case/">Connecticut Supreme Court</a> has followed suit and overturned bans on same-sex marriage in that state. They are the third state in the nation to do so, following California earlier this year and <a href="http://www.cnn.com/2004/LAW/02/04/gay.marriage/index.html">Massachusetts in 2004</a>. <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/02/nyregion/02samesex.html">New York State</a> does not perform, but does recognize as legally-valid, such marriages. tag:metafilter.com,2008:site.75548 Fri, 10 Oct 2008 09:13:46 -0800 california connecticut marriage massachusetts proposition8 samesexmarriage statelaw liketitanic