Alaska couples challenge same-sex marriage ban

[JURIST] Five same-sex couples on Monday challenged [complaint, PDF; press release, PDF] Alaska's constitutional amendment banning same-sex marriage. The lawsuit, filed in the US District Court for the District of Alaska [official website], contends that the amendment [Art. I §25], added to the Alaska Constitution in 1998, violates their due process and equal protection rights under the Fourteenth Amendment [text] to the US Constitution. Four of the plaintiff couples are seeking recognition of their out-of-state same-sex marriages, and the fifth...

Source: http://jurist.org/paperchase/2014/05/alaska-couples-challenge-same-sex-marriage-ban.php

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