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   From: aha@usuck.wi   
      
   MADISON, Wis. -- The Wisconsin Supreme Court has declined to   
   hear a petition brought by a same-sex couple from Milwaukee   
   seeking to strike down the state's constitutional ban on gay   
   marriage.   
      
   The court last week without comment declined to take the case.   
   Chief Justice Shirley Abrahamson and Justice Ann Walsh Bradley   
   dissented, also without comment.   
      
   Katherine Halopka-Ivery and Linda Halopka-Ivery filed the   
   lawsuit directly with the high court in April, bypassing the   
   trial and appellate courts.   
      
   They married in California, where it is legal, and allege   
   Wisconsin's gay marriage ban denies them federal rights afforded   
   to opposite-sex married couples, violating their rights to equal   
   protection and due process.   
      
   A separate federal lawsuit filed by eight same-sex couples is   
   pending in federal court in Madison.   
      
   http://www.twincities.com/localnews/ci_25845150/wisconsin-   
   supreme-court-wont-take-gay-marriage-case?source=rss   
      
   No fudgepacker marriages in Wisconsin.   
      
       
      
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