High court to hear challenge to marriage law [Mass]

[Mr_Spock]

http://www.boston.com/dailynews/054/region/High_court_to_hear_challenge_t:.shtml

BOSTON (AP) The state's highest court has agreed to hear a challenge to the 1913 law used to bar out-of-state gay couples from getting married in Massachusetts.

The law, which some say was written to block interracial marriages, denies out-of-state couples the right to marry if it would be illegal in their home state. Massachusetts is the only state that allows gays to marry.

Final briefs are due in the case by May 27, but no date for oral arguments has been set, according to court records.

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