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Miami-Dade Clerk Harvey Ruvin asks judge to slow couples' gay marriage suit until other cases settled

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Mon, 05/05/2014 - 21:00

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Gay South Florida

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Written By: Steve Rothaus

Miami-Dade Circuit Judge Sarah Zabel said Tuesday she would decide “in the next week or so” whether to suspend a local gay-marriage lawsuit until after some similar federal case is decided in the future.

In January, six same-sex couples sued Miami-Dade County Clerk Harvey Ruvin after his office wouldn’t issue them marriage licenses.

Ruvin’s lawyers had originally asked Zabel to suspend the case indefintely. On Tuesday, they changed their wording.

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Making the Tampa Bay Region Economically Competitive:
How Policies of Inclusion Draw Talent and Impact the Bottom Line

Equality Means Business Roundtable
Thursday, June 5 @ 11:30 am at Tampa Bay History Center