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Title: NY: Out of state same-sex marriages are legal (for now)
Post by: Shana A on May 11, 2008, 08:24:48 PM
NY: Out of state same-sex marriages are legal (for now)
by: pam
Sun May 11, 2008 at 20:30:00 PM EDT

http://pamshouseblend.com/showDiary.do?diaryId=5342 (http://pamshouseblend.com/showDiary.do?diaryId=5342)

This victory nearly slipped under the radar. New York's highest court decided not to review a ruling in February that same-sex marriages performed elsewhere (Massachusetts and Canada, for instance, where Kate and I married), must be recognized by the state.

    In a cryptically worded one-sentence order issued on May 6, the New York Court of Appeals, the state's highest, declined, for the time being at least, to review a February 1 appellate court ruling out of Rochester that a lesbian couple, Patricia Martinez and Lisa Ann Golden, who married in Canada in 2004 are entitled to legal recognition of that marriage by Monroe Community College, Martinez's employer.