QUOTE
sun-sentinel.com & Associated Press
Posted February 25 2004, 10:44 AM EST
FORT LAUDERDALE -- A Miami attorney said he will sue the state at midday Wednesday on behalf of 175 homosexual men and lesbian women, seeking to change the law prohibiting them from obtaining marriage licenses.
Attorney Ellis Rubin said he would be accompanied by a large number of couples when he files the suit at noon in Broward County Court. The suit is believed to be the first formal legal challenge to the state law specifying that marriage licenses be issued only to parties consisting of one male and one female.
....
Posted February 25 2004, 10:44 AM EST
FORT LAUDERDALE -- A Miami attorney said he will sue the state at midday Wednesday on behalf of 175 homosexual men and lesbian women, seeking to change the law prohibiting them from obtaining marriage licenses.
Attorney Ellis Rubin said he would be accompanied by a large number of couples when he files the suit at noon in Broward County Court. The suit is believed to be the first formal legal challenge to the state law specifying that marriage licenses be issued only to parties consisting of one male and one female.
....