News; Pa. man loses novel argument that marriage was invalid because license had expired. Published: ; Apr. 12, 2023, 5:11 p.m.

Pennsylvania is the only northeastern state that does not grant legal status to marriage or civil unions between individuals of the same sex. Hanes has issued 174 licenses to same-sex couples.

HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — A Pennsylvania judge’s order stopping a suburban Philadelphia court clerk from issuing marriage licenses to same-sex couples leaves their legal status unclear, ...

Thursday, a Pa. judge ordered a Montgomery County clerk to stop issuing marriage licenses to same-sex couples. But what about the licenses already issued?

County official issued marriage licenses to same-sex couples despite state law. Sept. 5, 2013— -- Pennsylvania's law banning same-sex marriages will be put to the test in a state court this ...

NORRISTOWN, PA. - A Montgomery County minister this morning performed the first same-sex marriage in Pennsylvania and filed the license with the court, one day after the county's Register of Wills ...

Updated, 8:30 p.m. EDT. NORRISTOWN, Pa. — At least five same-sex couples obtained marriage licenses Wednesday in a suburban Philadelphia county that is defying a state ban on such unions.

Pennsylvania bans same-sex couples from getting married, but after the Supreme Court's big ruling on the Defense of Marriage Act last month, it's no longer clear that state bans would stand up to ...

We've kept a close eye on developments near Philadelphia, where county clerk D. Bruce Hanes recently announced he's granting marriage license to couples, gay or straight, who wish to get married ...

Pennsylvania bans same-sex couples from getting married, but after the Supreme Court's big ruling on the Defense of Marriage Act last month, it's no longer clear that state bans would stand up to ...