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...appeal, filed by the conservative non-profit group Liberty Counsel, attempted to overturn the state Supreme Judicial Court (SJC)’s November 2003 ruling legalizing same-sex marriage in the Bay State. Since then, more than 3,000 same-sex couples in Massachusetts have filed for marriage licenses, according to the Associated Press...
...that is simply not in the power of the Massachusetts Supreme Court to hear,” said Erik Stanley, the brief’s co-author and chief counsel for Liberty Counsel. Stanley said the Court’s denial was based on the legal grounds of the appeal, not the issue of same-sex marriage...
...Court did not offer comment in its rejection of the appeal...
...Justice Department can ask the full Third Circuit to re-hear arguments in the case, and Bashman said the court would likely be sympathetic to the request. Alternatively, the government could appeal the Third Circuit ruling directly to the U.S. Supreme Court. Even if the Third Circuit and the Supreme Court do not accept the government’s appeal, the ruling would not go into effect for at least seven weeks “as a matter of course,” Bashman said...
...true that the council and the HCC made back much of its money from selling a great number of tickets to the general public at significantly higher prices, and that Dylan’s appeal with older members of the community had something to do with piquing outside interest, but this practice is by no means necessarily bad. The bottom line is selling more expensive tickets to non-Harvard concert-goers means cheaper tickets for undergraduates, and as long as the practice does not come at the cost of undermining the student-centric, community-building nature of the show...