U.S. District Judge Daniel D. Crabtree, who had ruled on November 4, 2014, that the Kansas constitutional amendment and statutes banning same-sex marriage were unconstitutional, has issued a final ruling in that case, Marie v. Mosier, 2016 WL 3951744 (D. Kan., July 22, 2016), effectively finding that Kansas officials cannot be trusted to comply voluntarily with the Supreme Court’s marriage equality ruling in Obergefell v. Hodges, 135 S. Ct. 2584 (2015), without the … <Read More>
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Supreme Court Lets Kansas Marriage Decision Go Into Effect
When U.S. District Judge Daniel D. Crabtree ruled on November 4 in Marie v. Moser, 2014 WL 5598128, 2014 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 157093, that Kansas’s ban on same-sex marriage was unconstitutional, he issues a preliminary injunction directing the defendants not to enforce the ban, but stayed the effect of this Order until 5 pm on November 11 to give the state time to seek a stay from the 10th Circuit or the Supreme Court. Judge … <Read More>
Kansas Marriage Equality Ruling May Go to the 10th Circuit for En Banc Review
U.S. District Judge Daniel Crabtree ruled on November 4 in Marie v. Moser that the Kansas ban on same-sex marriage violates the 14th Amendment. The Obama appointee, who has been a federal judge for less than a year, rejected the state’s argument that the U.S. Supreme Court’s 1972 ruling in Baker v. Nelson “controls the outcome here” and instead applied the recent decisions by the 10th Circuit Court of Appeals, Kitchen v. Herbert and Bishop … <Read More>