Utah Plaintiffs Strongly Counter State’s Supreme Court Stay Application in Marriage Equality Case

Today the attorneys for the plaintiffs in Kitchen v. Herbert, the Utah marriage equality case, filed their opposition with the Supreme Court to the state’s application for a stay of the trial court ruling.

Under the trial court ruling, issued on Dec. 20, same-sex marriages began happening in Utah that date.  On December 23, the trial judge, Robert Shelby, denied the state’s motion to stay his ruling pending appeal.  Two days later, a panel of … <Read More>