Federal Judge Sets Hearing in Alabama On Same-Sex Marriage - NYTimes.com
MOBILE, Ala. — A day after a federal ruling legalizing same-sex marriage took effect in Alabama, a federal judge set a hearing that could determine whether resistant local probate judges must grant licenses to gay couples. At the same time, some officials who had refused to issue the licenses, in compliance with a state judicial ruling, reversed course.
The probate judges are caught between conflicting signals from the state and federal judiciaries. State law does not require these judges to be lawyers, yet they are being called on to consider weighty constitutional matters involving the interplay of federal and state authority. Generally they deal with matters like adoptions, guardianships and name changes."
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