Florida: Plaintiffs want state marriage equality ban ruled unconstitutional
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http://www.watermarkonline.com/2014/05/01/plaintiffs-want-state-marriage-equality-ban-ruled-unconstitutional/
Miami – The plaintiffs in Florida’s marriage equality lawsuit are filing a new motion, requesting that the state’s ban on marriage equality be ruled unconstitutional.
The original lawsuit was filed in January. The plaintiffs are Equality Florida Institute and six South Florida same-sex couples: Catherina Pareto and Karla Arguello; Dr. Juan Carlos Rodriguez and David Price; Vanessa and Melanie Alenier; Todd and Jeff Delmay; Summer Greene and Pamela Faerber; and Don Price Johnston and Jorge Isaias Diaz.
“This is the big deal,” said Orlando attorney and LGBT activist Mary B. Meeks, who is part of the team representing the plaintiffs. “We set this for hearing, and then we win or we lose.”
The motion, filed May 1, states that Amendment 2, Florida’s ban on marriage equality, cannot stand in light of the Supreme Court ruling that the federal Defense of Marriage Act was ruled unconstitutional. It also states that subsequent state court cases since the DOMA ruling support the assertion that Florida’s ban is unconstitutional.
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