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June 10, 2015

Arkansas Ordered to Recognize Same-Sex Marriages from 2014 
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A state judge has ordered Arkansas to recognize same-sex marriages
performed during a brief window a year ago. Some 500 LGBT couples
obtained licenses in the days after a state judge struck down a ban on
marriage equality. But Arkansas justices then put those unions on hold
pending the outcome of a state appeal. In a new ruling, Judge Wendell
Griffen of Little Rock ordered officials to accept the tax filings and
spousal health coverage applications of LGBT married couples.

 

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