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Nigerian president Goodluck Ebele Jonathan addresses the 69th United Nations General Assembly at the U.N. headquarters in New York September 24, 2014. Lucas Jackson / Reuters
A judge ruled that the person who brought the challenge couldn't sue because he is straight and not directly harmed by it, the plaintiff's attorney told BuzzFeed News.
Lawyers and plaintiffs who sued the state over a gay marriage ban hold a press conference outside of the James A. McClure Federal Building and U.S. Courthouse in Boise, Idaho, on Oct. 7. Patrick Sweeney / Reuters
Idaho Gov. Butch Otter tells the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals that its ruling in favor of marriage equality could cause significant harms, "especially [to] the children of heterosexuals."
AFP / Getty Images ROBYN BECK
Gay, bisexual, and transgender inmates of a California jail said they are housed in an "alternative lifestyle tank" and unfairly kept from opportunities and programs available to straight inmates, according to a federal lawsuit filed Wednesday.
Gay and trans youth living in a Kingston sewer in Dec. 2013. J. Lester Feder/BuzzFeed
Carolyn Kaster, AP
"Traditional marriage is exclusively [an] opposite-sex institution," a federal judge rules. U.S. District Court Judge Juan Pérez-Giménez dismissed a lawsuit challenging Puerto Rico's ban on same-sex couples' marriages.
Following an appeals court ruling allowing Idaho same-sex couples to marry, a federal judge also struck down Arizona's ban on same-sex couples' marriages. Patrick Sweeney / Reuters
Judge also refuses to put his ruling on hold during any possible appeal.
A temporary hold on the marriages that a federal appeals court granted on Wednesday expires on Friday.
Chris Geidner
As same-sex couples marry in North Carolina, similar weddings are on hold for now in Alaska. Davis Turner / Reuters
Update: (Oct. 17, 2014, at 3:02 p.m.)
The Supreme Court denied Alaska's request for a stay on Friday afternoon.
The move means that same-sex couples can secure marriage licenses immediately.
