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Pennsylvania Attorney General Announces She Will Not Defend State’s Unconstitutional Ban on Marriage for Same-Sex Couples

PHILADELPHIA–(ENEWSPF)–July 12, 2013.  Pennsylvania Attorney General Kathleen Kane announced today that she will not defend Gov. Corbett and the Secretary of Health in the recent lawsuit challenging the constitutionality of the state’s ban on marriages of same-sex couples. The American Civil Liberties Union of Pennsylvania, ACLU national, and volunteer counsel from the law firm of Hangley Aronchick Segal Pudlin & Schiller filed a federal lawsuit on July 9 on behalf of 10 couples, the teenaged daughters of one couple, and one widow. The case is Whitewood v. Corbett.

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