Arkansas judge expands same-sex marriage ruling
[JURIST] A judge for Arkansas' Pulaski County Circuit Court [official website] ruled [opinion, PDF] Thursday
that the state ban on court clerks issuing marriage licenses to
same-sex couples is unconstitutional. In doing so, Judge Chris Piazza
effectively expanded [Arkansas Times backgrounder] his May 10 decision
[JURIST report] wherein he ruled that the state ban on gay marriage was
unconstitutional. An immediate appeal was taken to the Supreme Court of
Arkansas, which upheld [JURIST report] Piazza's decision, but noted that
because...
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