26 June: The Supreme Court of the United States guidelines that supporters of Proposition 8, the identical-intercourse marriage ban in California, lacked standing to appeal a courtroom’s 2010 resolution that deemed the ban unconstitutional, thus legalizing similar-sex marriage in California. 9 April: The Italian Civil Court of Grosseto ordered the recognition of a similar-intercourse marriage contracted abroad. Hawaii signs a bill granting marriage to same-intercourse couples, making Hawaii the fifteenth such US state. On 24 June the Council of State gave its consent to skip a second vote on the measure. The laws was beforehand authorised by the House by a 61-54 vote on 5 November and by the Senate by a 34-21 vote on 14 February. The laws was permitted by the state Senate by a 19-4 vote on 12 November and beforehand by the House by a 30-19 vote on 8 November. As a closing resolution the Court set a precedent within the State of Oaxaca. 23 April: The Supreme Court of Mexico unanimously found the identical-sex marriage ban within the southern state of Oaxaca unconstitutional. It took effect on 19 May 2013, making France the thirteenth nation to effectively implement same-intercourse marriage. 12 December: The High Court of Australia decides unanimously that a legislative act granting marriage to same-intercourse couples within the Australian Capital Territory (ACT) “can not function concurrently with the federal Marriage Act 1961.” The court docket said that such marriages don’t have any impact underneath the act and that it’s matter of the federal Parliament to amend the federal marriage law.
District Court for Michigan discovered the state’s ban on similar-sex marriage unconstitutional within the case DeBoer v. Snyder. 25 July: The District Court of the Miami-Dade County, Florida, ruled unconstitutional the state ban on similar-intercourse marriage in the case Pareto v. Ruvin. District Court of Idaho struck down the wedding legal guidelines prohibiting identical-intercourse couples from marrying within the case Latta v. Otter. This is the second ruling in favor of similar-sex couples in 8 days, the first was decided by the District Court of the Monroe County, Florida within the case Huntsman v. Heavilin. 10 July: The District Court of the Boulder County, Colorado, dominated in favor for the county official who defied the state ban on identical-sex marriage when the tenth Circuit issued and stayed the opinion within the case Kitchen v. Herbert. District Court of Pennsylvania discovered the state’s ban on similar-intercourse marriage unconstitutional in the case Whitewood v. Wolf, legalizing similar-sex marriage in Pennsylvania. New Jersey start performing identical-intercourse marriages. Notaries throughout the nation start performing “marital contracts” for identical-intercourse couples, nonetheless, LGBT activists advice individuals not to have interaction in those contracts as they did not exist within the country’s legal guidelines.
20 June: Deadline given by the Colombian Constitutional Court for Parliament to legislate on similar-sex unions ends. After approximately 450 similar-intercourse couples acquired marriage licenses in several Arkansas counties, the Arkansas Supreme Court suspended Judge Piazza’s ruling after every week on 16 May 2014 and enforced a stay whereas the choice is appealed by Arkansas’ Democratic Attorney General Dustin McDaniel. Denver and Pueblo county announced that they may subject marriage licenses for identical-sex couples too. 19 June: In Vietnam, a law is accepted that may abolish the ban on similar-intercourse marriage though similar-intercourse marriages won’t be recognized. 28 July: The United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit discovered the Virginia ban on identical-sex marriage unconstitutional in the case Bostic v. Schaefer. Officials had been in a position to carry out such marriages after the Supreme Court of new Jersey upheld a denial of a motion for a keep issued by a lower courtroom within the case Garden Estate Equality v Dow.