Legal Opinion

Cote-Whitacre v. Department of Public Health

Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court

Decided March 30, 2006PublishedCited by 46 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

By the Court.

The orders denying the plaintiffs’ motions for preliminary injunction in these cases are affirmed. A majority of the Justices also agree that, as to the plaintiffs who reside in Connecticut, Maine, New Hampshire, and Vermont, a judgment for the defendants shall enter in the Superior Court because same-sex marriage is prohibited in those States. As to the New York and Rhode Island plaintiffs, their cases shall proceed in the Superior Court, on an expedited basis, for a determination whether same-sex marriage is prohibited in those States.

So ordered.

2Cited by46 opinions

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  4. DuPont v. Commissioner of CorrectionMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 2007
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