A federal judge in Connecticut has denied a request from the House Republican-controlled Bipartisan Legal Advisory Group to halt proceedings in a challenge to the Defense of Marriage Act.
Judge Vanessa Bryant of the U.S. District Court for the District of Connecticut issued her orderWednesday in the case, Pedersen v. Office of Personnel Management. BLAG filed a motion to stay last month, arguing that the same issues were under consideration in Windsor v. United States, a case now on appeal in the Second Circuit. Both cases challenge section 3 of the Defense of Marriage Act, which prohibits the federal government from recognizing same-sex marriages. Last month a federal judge in New York ruled DOMA unconstitutional in the Windsor case.
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