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Saturday, July 1, 2017

“Texas Supreme Court: No inherent right to gay marriage benefits.” Chuck Lindell of The Austin American-Statesman has this report.

Lauren McGaughy of The Dallas Morning News reports that “Texas Supreme Court rules gay couples not guaranteed spousal benefits.”

Rebecca Elliott of The Houston Chronicle reports that “Paxton cheers Texas Supreme Court ruling on same-sex benefits.”

Alexa Ura of The Houston Chronicle reports that “Texas Supreme Court throws out ruling that favored same-sex marriage benefits.”

Jim Vertuno of The Associated Press reports that “Texas court questions right of benefits for gay spouses.”

Jon Herskovitz of Reuters reports that “Top Texas court sides against same-sex couple marriage benefits.”

Dominic Holden of BuzzFeed News reports that “Texas Supreme Court Says It’s Still Not Clear What Rights Same-Sex Couples Have.”

And in commentary, online at Slate, Mark Joseph Stern has a jurisprudence essay titled “Texas Messes With Marriage Equality: The state Supreme Court’s refusal to extend state spousal benefits to same-sex couples is an insidious attempt to defy Obergefell v. Hodges.”

You can access Friday’s unanimous ruling of the Supreme Court of Texas at this link.

Posted at 12:26 AM by Howard Bashman