Inmate, transgender partner lose second suit challenging Nebraska gay marriage ban

[Omaha Steve]

Source: Omaha World Herald-AP

LINCOLN — A Nebraska prison inmate and his transgender partner have lost another round in their legal fight to be able to visit each other and get married.

The Lincoln Journal Star reports a federal judge rejected the lawsuit brought by prisoner Harold Wilson and his partner, Gracy Sedlak, challenging a Nebraska constitutional amendment that defines marriage as a union between one man and one woman.

Their state lawsuit that raised the same claims was thrown out because they failed to pay an $82 court fee.

Sedlak is a former inmate who previously identified as a man and used the name John Jirovsky. Wilson, 57, is serving a 56- to 170-year prison sentence on attempted murder, kidnapping and sexual assault charges from Dawson County. He went to prison in 1986.

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Read more: http://www.omaha.com/article/20131118/NEWS/131118797/1685#inmate-transgender-partner-lose-second-suit-challenging-nebraska-gay-marriage-ban

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[snooper2]

1. I would advise Sedlak to find a better partner than someone 30 years older who will die in prison

[surrealAmerican]

2. This didn't make sense without this:

Sedlak, 27, can't visit Wilson now because of a Nebraska Department of Correctional Services rule that puts a three-year waiting period on former inmates visiting prisons. Sedlak was released from prison in 2011.

I guess they make some sort of exception to this rule if the former inmate is married to the current inmate, although the article doesn't say that.