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Update - No Word on Whether Supreme Court Will Take Michigan Marriage Case

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(MPRN-Undated) The U.S. Supreme Court will meet again Friday and could decide whether to hear the challenge to Michigan’s same-sex marriage ban. 

The Supreme Court justices held a closed-door meeting on Friday and another on Monday to talk about the cases they might hear in 2015. SCOTUS Blog reports that the same-sex marriage case involving bans on same-sex marriage if Michigan, Kentucky, Ohio and Tennessee. The Sixth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has upheld the bans on same-sex marriage in those states. 

The U.S. Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals upheld Michigan’s marriage ban, as well as similar laws in three other states. Other circuits have struck down marriage bans. The attorney for the lesbian couple that challenged Michigan’s marriage ban says the inconsistency needs to be resolved. Michigan Attorney General Bill Schuette, who is defending the marriage ban, says he also hopes the Supreme Court takes the case.

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