Lawyers for two Monroe County men who won the right to marry filed papers Monday for the state's appeal to move directly to Florida's Supreme Court.
'We're filing in the court of appeal, a motion, in layman's terms, to pass through the jurisdiction of the third District Court of Appeal and to send the case directly to the Florida Supreme Court,' said Bernadette Restivo, who with law partner Elena Vigil-Fariñas represents Key West bartenders Aaron Huntsman and William Lee Jones. 'It's going to certainly bring this case quicker to finality. It's going to apply this case, one way or another, to the entire state of Florida, once the Supreme Court rules on it.'
On July 17, Monroe Chief Circuit Judge Luis Garcia declared Florida's 2008 gay-marriage ban unconstitutional, ruling against Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi, whose office defended the ban. The men have not been allowed to marry: Florida law mandates that an automatic stay pending appeal is triggered when a public official loses a court case.
The Monroe County case mirrors one in Miami-Dade, in which Circuit Judge Sarah Zabel on Friday ordered that six same-sex couples also be allowed to marry.
It is likely that the two cases will be appealed together and that whatever decision is reached by the appeals court will affect both.
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Lawyers for two Monroe County men who won the right to marry filed papers Monday for the state's appeal to move directly to Florida's Supreme Court.
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