ADF: House on firm ground to defend DOMA

ALLIANCE DEFENSE FUND NEWS RELEASE
March 10, 2011 – FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
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ADF: House on firm ground to defend DOMA

House Speaker Boehner announces that U.S. House will initiate legal defense
in wake of Dept. of Justice’s refusal to do so

WASHINGTON — U.S. Speaker of the House John Boehner announced Wednesday that the House is initiating a legal defense of the federal Defense of Marriage Act, which defines marriage as the union of a man and a woman.  The decision by the Obama administration last month to abandon defense of the law in several current lawsuits left the law without any legal defense.

Case Name:  Commonwealth of Massachusetts v. United States Department of Health and Human Services |  Gill v. Office of Personnel Management

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