Tag: 10th circuit court of appeals

About a month ago, Judge Neil Gorsuch was leading a federal panel that was hearing an appeal by the City of Denver related to...

The saga around a notorious provision in Colorado's state constitution continues, in what could be the most fundamental disagreement in state politics this decade. The U.S. Supreme Court punted...

  The same-sex marriage ban in Oklahoma violates the U.S. Constitution, a three-judge panel of the Tenth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has found. This is...

The movement to bring gay marriage to Colorado has proceeded at breakneck pace, building great momentum that critics of Attorney General John Suthers fear he is attempting a in recent legal maneuver to derail.

Not until contemporary times have laws stigmatizing or even criminalizing gay men and women been felled... As the district court eloquently explained, 'it is not the Constitution that has changed, but the knowledge of what it means to be gay or lesbian.’”

A key chapter in the story of gay marriage in the United States opens today in Denver, where the U.S. Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals will hear arguments in the pathbreaking Utah case that in December struck down that state's 2004 ban on same-sex marriages.

"People come into my office to get married. It's a happy office. There are a lot of benefits that come with state-sanctioned marriage. I think everyone has an equal right to those benefits."