OMAHA, Neb. \u2014 A federal judge has issued a permanent injunction striking down Nebraska’s now-negated ban on gay marriage and civil unions.<\/p>\n
The injunction issued Thursday by U.S. District Court Judge Joseph Bataillon was largely a formality, as a Supreme Court ruling in late June legalized gay marriage across the county.<\/p>\n
Bataillon’s injunction orders state officials to treat same-sex couples the same as different-sex couples in everything from processing marriage certificates to issuing birth certificates.<\/p>\n
State attorneys had argued that the injunction was not necessary, because the state has complied with the Supreme Court’s ruling since it was issued.<\/p>\n
But several same-sex couples who challenged the state’s ban in 2014 argued that the state’s attempt last year to exclude same-sex spouses on their children’s birth certificates showed that the injunction was necessary.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
OMAHA, Neb. \u2014 A federal judge has issued a permanent injunction striking down Nebraska’s now-negated ban on gay marriage and civil unions. The injunction issued Thursday by U.S. District Court Judge Joseph Bataillon was largely a formality, as a Supreme Court ruling in late June legalized gay marriage across the county. Bataillon’s injunction orders state …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":34,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[93476],"tags":[9412,173],"class_list":["post-5955","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-briefs-blogs","tag-nebraska","tag-same-sex-marriage","never_free"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n