Hebel v. West
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION OF THE COURT
Lahtinen, J.
Respondents seek to interject into this case a challenge to the *174constitutionality of that aspect of New York’s Domestic Relations Law which limits marriage to one man and. one woman. That constitutional issue, however, is not properly before us in this case. This case is about orderly government.
On February 27, 2004, respondent Jason West, Mayor of the Village of New Paltz, Ulster County, solemnized the marriages of 25 same-sex couples. Prior to the ceremony, marriage licenses for the couples had been requested from the Clerk of the Town of New Paltz, Ulster…
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