ACLU asks Supreme Court to hear Indiana, Wisconsin marriage equality cases

NEW YORK – The American Civil Liberties Union filed responses to petitions from the states of Indiana and Wisconsin Sept. 9 asking for the U.S. Supreme Court to review a federal appellate court ruling made last week that struck down bans on marriage for same-sex couples in the same two states.

The ACLU is representing 13 plaintiffs couples who are challenging the bans on same-sex marriages in Indiana and Wisconsin. The ACLU is asking the Supreme Court to review the ruling to come to a resolution for marriage equality in both states and also for the United States as a whole.
“Now that there are petitions before the Court in five cases, it’s crystal clear that the Court needs to take up the freedom to marry issue again. Same-sex couples from every corner of the country are affected, and the high court has the opportunity to end the harm caused by these discriminatory and unconstitutional marriage bans,” said James Esseks, Director of the ACLU Lesbian Gay Bisexual and Transgender Project, in the press release from the ACLU.

Many of the bans across the nation have been struck down due to similar rulings. The ACLU is also representing plaintiffs for a case originating out of Tallahassee, where U.S. District Judge Robert L. Hinkle ruled the Florida ban on same-sex marriages as unconstitutional.

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