US Appeals Court to Review Same-Sex Marriage Bans in 3 States

For the first time since it declared California's gay marriage ban unconstitutional, a U.S. appeals court will review gay marriage bans in Nevada, Idaho and Hawaii. The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco is scheduled to hear arguments on whether judges in Nevada and Hawaii were correct to uphold those states' gay marriage bans. Hawaii's legislature subsequently voted to allow same-sex nuptials, while a federal judge struck down Idaho's gay marriage...

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