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Same-sex marriage in Kentucky

Index Same-sex marriage in Kentucky

Same-sex marriage in the U.S. state of Kentucky is legal under the U.S. Supreme Court ruling in Obergefell v. Hodges. [1]

43 relations: Baker v. Nelson, Canada, Casey County, Kentucky, Certiorari, Contempt of court, David Bunning, De jure, Equal Protection Clause, Interlocutory appeal, Jack Conway (politician), Jeffrey Sutton, John G. Heyburn II, Kentucky Constitutional Amendment 1, Kentucky Court of Appeals, Kentucky Equality Federation, Kentucky Equality Federation v. Beshear, Kentucky General Assembly, Kentucky Supreme Court, Kim Davis, Kitchen v. Herbert, Lexington Herald-Leader, LGBT rights in Kentucky, List of counties in Kentucky, Martha Craig Daughtrey, Matt Bevin, Michigan, Miller v. Davis, Morehead, Kentucky, Obergefell v. Hodges, Ohio, Same-sex marriage, Same-sex marriage in the Sixth Circuit, Steve Beshear, Supreme Court of the United States, Tennessee, The Courier-Journal, The Raw Story, United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit, United States District Court for the Eastern District of Kentucky, United States District Court for the Western District of Kentucky, Washington Blade, WDRB, Whitley County, Kentucky.

Baker v. Nelson

Richard John Baker v. Gerald R. Nelson, 291 Minn. 310, 191 N.W.2d 185 (1971), is a case in which the Minnesota Supreme Court ruled that a state law limiting marriage to persons of the opposite sex did not violate the U.S. Constitution.

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Canada

Canada is a country located in the northern part of North America.

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Casey County, Kentucky

Casey County is a county located in the U.S. Commonwealth of Kentucky.

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Certiorari

Certiorari, often abbreviated cert. in the United States, is a process for seeking judicial review and a writ issued by a court that agrees to review.

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Contempt of court

Contempt of court, often referred to simply as "contempt", is the offense of being disobedient to or discourteous toward a court of law and its officers in the form of behavior that opposes or defies the authority, justice and dignity of the court.

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David Bunning

David Louis Bunning (born July 14, 1966) is a United States District Judge of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Kentucky.

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De jure

In law and government, de jure (lit) describes practices that are legally recognised, whether or not the practices exist in reality.

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Equal Protection Clause

The Equal Protection Clause is part of the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution.

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Interlocutory appeal

An interlocutory appeal (or interim appeal), in the law of civil procedure in the United States, occurs when a ruling by a trial court is appealed while other aspects of the case are still proceeding.

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Jack Conway (politician)

John William Conway (born July 5, 1969) is an American politician from Kentucky.

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Jeffrey Sutton

Jeffrey Stuart Sutton (born October 31, 1960 in Dhahran, Saudi Arabia) is a United States Circuit Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit.

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John G. Heyburn II

John Gilpin Heyburn II (November 12, 1948 – April 29, 2015) was a United States District Judge of the United States District Court for the Western District of Kentucky.

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Kentucky Constitutional Amendment 1

Kentucky Constitutional Amendment 1, Kentucky State Board of Elections.

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Kentucky Court of Appeals

The Kentucky Court of Appeals is the lower of Kentucky's two appellate courts, under the Kentucky Supreme Court.

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Kentucky Equality Federation

Kentucky Equality Federation is an umbrella organization for gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender civil rights in the Commonwealth of Kentucky, consisting of Federation for Kentucky Equality, Inc., Kentucky Equality Coalition, Inc., and Kentucky Equality PAC.

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Kentucky Equality Federation v. Beshear

Kentucky Equality Federation v. Beshear (also known as Kentucky Equality Federation v. Commonwealth of Kentucky) is an American state-level court case started on September 10, 2013 in which the Kentucky Equality Federation sued the Commonwealth of Kentucky in Franklin Circuit Court claiming Kentucky's 2004 Constitutional Amendment banning same-sex marriage violated sections of the commonwealth's constitution.

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Kentucky General Assembly

The Kentucky General Assembly, also called the Kentucky Legislature, is the state legislature of the U.S. state of Kentucky.

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Kentucky Supreme Court

The Kentucky Supreme Court was created by a 1975 constitutional amendment and is the state supreme court of the U.S. state of Kentucky.

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Kim Davis

Kimberly Jean Davis (née Bailey; born September 17, 1965) is the county clerk for Rowan County, Kentucky.

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Kitchen v. Herbert

Kitchen v. Herbert, 961 F.Supp.2d 1181 (D. Utah 2013), affirmed, 755 F.3d 1193 (10th Cir. 2014); stay granted, 134 S.Ct. 893 (2014); petition for certiorari denied, No.

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Lexington Herald-Leader

The Lexington Herald-Leader is a newspaper owned by The McClatchy Company and based in the U.S. city of Lexington, Kentucky.

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LGBT rights in Kentucky

Lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) persons in the U.S. commonwealth of Kentucky have most of the same rights as non-LGBT persons have, but still face some legal challenges not experienced by other people.

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List of counties in Kentucky

This is a list of the one hundred and twenty counties in the U.S. state of Kentucky.

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Martha Craig Daughtrey

Martha Craig Daughtrey (Tennessee Bar Association, Fellows' Legal History Project,; née Kirko;, also known as Cissy Daughtrey), Kathryn Reed Edge, Tennessee Bar Association Journal, April 2001.

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Matt Bevin

Matthew Griswold Bevin (born January 9, 1967) is an American businessman and politician serving as the 62nd and current Governor of Kentucky since 2015.

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Michigan

Michigan is a state in the Great Lakes and Midwestern regions of the United States.

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Miller v. Davis

Miller v. Davis is a federal lawsuit in the United States regarding the issuance of marriage licenses to same-sex couples.

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Morehead, Kentucky

Morehead is a home rule-class city located along US 60 (the historic Midland Trail) and Interstate 64 in Rowan County, Kentucky, in the United States.

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Obergefell v. Hodges

Obergefell v. Hodges,, is a landmark civil rights case in which the Supreme Court of the United States ruled in a 5–4 decision that the fundamental right to marry is guaranteed to same-sex couples by both the Due Process Clause and the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution.

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Ohio

Ohio is a Midwestern state in the Great Lakes region of the United States.

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Same-sex marriage

Same-sex marriage (also known as gay marriage) is the marriage of a same-sex couple, entered into in a civil or religious ceremony.

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Same-sex marriage in the Sixth Circuit

On April 28, 2015, the Supreme Court of the United States heard oral arguments for Obergefell v. Hodges (Ohio), which was consolidated with three other same-sex marriage cases from the other states in the Sixth Circuit: Tanco v. Haslam (Tennessee), DeBoer v. Snyder (Michigan), Bourke v. Beshear (Kentucky).

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Steve Beshear

Steven Lynn Beshear (born September 21, 1944) is an American attorney and politician who served as the 61st governor of Kentucky from 2007 to 2015.

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Supreme Court of the United States

The Supreme Court of the United States (sometimes colloquially referred to by the acronym SCOTUS) is the highest federal court of the United States.

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Tennessee

Tennessee (translit) is a state located in the southeastern region of the United States.

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The Courier-Journal

Courier Journal, locally called The Courier-Journal or The C-J or The Courier, is the largest news organization in Kentucky.

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The Raw Story

The Raw Story (also stylized as RawStory) is an American online news organization founded in 2004 by John Byrne.

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United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit

The United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit (in case citations, 6th Cir.) is a federal court with appellate jurisdiction over the district courts in the following districts.

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United States District Court for the Eastern District of Kentucky

The United States District Court for the Eastern District of Kentucky (in case citations, E.D. Ky.) is the Federal district court whose jurisdiction comprises approximately the Eastern half of the Commonwealth of Kentucky.

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United States District Court for the Western District of Kentucky

The United States District Court for the Western District of Kentucky (in case citations, W.D. Ky.) is the federal district court for the western part of the state of Kentucky.

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Washington Blade

The Washington Blade is a lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) newspaper in the Washington, D.C. metropolitan area.

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WDRB

WDRB, virtual channel 41 (UHF digital channel 49), is a Fox-affiliated television station licensed to Louisville, Kentucky, United States.

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Whitley County, Kentucky

Whitley County is a county in the U.S. state of Kentucky.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Same-sex_marriage_in_Kentucky

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