March 4 (Reuters) - Local judges across Alabama on Wednesday stopped issuing marriage licenses to same-sex couples in compliance with a ruling a day earlier by the Alabama Supreme Court that was in ...

A federal judge issued an order Wednesday saying Alabama counties must abide by the Supreme Court's decision allowing same-sex marriage. The order from Judge Callie Granade follows months of ...

Although a federal judge struck down Alabama’s same sex marriage ban on Friday, the the judges responsible for issuing marriage licenses will not begin giving them to gay couples. According to the ...

Alabama’s probate courts may not issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples, the chief justice of the Alabama Supreme Court has ordered. Chief Justice Roy Moore ruled Wednesday (Jan. 6) that ...

"There is a great confusion out there as to what orders to obey," Moore said. "I'm not causing the confusion, I'm trying to clarify it." The chief justice of Alabama's Supreme Court ordered the ...

MONTGOMERY, Alabama - Alabama appeared set within hours to become the 37th state where gays can legally wed, prompting one couple to pitch a tent outside a courthouse even as the state's chief justice ...

A lawsuit filed by the Southern Poverty Law Center is challenging policies in several Alabama counties that, the center says, bar undocumented immigrants from getting marriage licenses. The lawsuit is ...

MONTGOMERY — An Alabama probate judge is asking the state's Supreme Court for a way out of issuing marriage licenses to same-sex couples.