“US judge nixes suit that split Obama, gays”

Houston Chronicle (AP): “U.S. District Judge David O. Carter ruled the case — the first of several pending challenges to the federal Defense of Marriage Act — must be refiled in federal court . . . Brian Raum, a lawyer for the Alliance Defense Fund, a Christian legal group that has joined the government in defending the federal marriage law, said Carter was right to dismiss the case on procedural grounds. The federal government cannot be sued in state courts, Raum said.”