US: Wyoming same-sex marriage lawsuit will be allowed to go to trial
A Wyoming judge has declined to rule on the constitutionality of a state law that specifies marriage is limited to one man and one woman.
Laramie County District Court Judge Thomas Campbell also decided at a hearing Tuesday not to suspend a lawsuit filed by four gay couples and a gay-rights advocacy group pending a possible US Supreme Court ruling on the issue of same-sex marriage.
41 representatives voted against the bill, and 17 voted in favor.
Wyoming, like Utah, Oklahoma, Kansas, and Colorado fall under the jurisdiction of the 10th Circuit Court of Appeals where bans on same-sex marriage have been ruled as unconstitutional.
The precedent set by the Utah and Oklahoma rulings which states that bans on same-sex marriage are unconstitutional applies to all those states, but the US Supreme Court blocked the rulings from taking effect in certain states pending appeals.
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