NY Attorney General Challenges U.S. Defense of Marriage Act
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New York Attorney General Eric T. Schneiderman filed court papers challenging as unconstitutional the U.S. Defense of Marriage Act that bars federal recognition of same-sex marriages.
Schneiderman said the federal act violates the right to equal protection under the law for gay couples. He filed the friend-of-the-court brief today in federal court in Manhattan, two days after New York began allowing gays to wed.