Nebraska Supreme Court judges say appeal premature in same-sex marriage case

Source: Omaha World Herald

By Martha Stoddard and Paul Hammel

LINCOLN — A Raymond, Nebraska, woman will have to go back to a Lancaster County district judge in her attempt to divorce her same-sex spouse.

The Nebraska Supreme Court on Friday dismissed an appeal in a case that has the potential to alter the state’s constitutional amendment banning same-sex marriage.

The high court ruled that the Lancaster County District Court had not issued a final judgment in the case, meaning the appeal was premature.

The judges sidestepped, for the moment, the bigger issue of whether Nebraska’s voter-approved ban on same-sex marriage is constitutional.

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