Revisiting State Marriage Recoginition Provisions
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Authors
Duncan, William C.
Issue Date
2005
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38
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Journal Article
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INTRODUCTION|In response to developments in Hawaii in 1993, where the state supreme court wielded a novel theory of sex discrimination to call into question the constitutionality of state marriage laws, an increasing number of states have enacted legislation to specify that same-sex marriages contracted in other jurisdictions will not be recognized in those states. In 1998, David Coolidge and I surveyed these marriage recognition laws. That article described the passage of the thirty laws then in existence and briefly analyzed them. Much has occurred since then and the number of states with marriage recognition laws has increased slowly but steadily...
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38 Creighton L. Rev. 233 (2004-2005)
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Creighton University School of Law