3:05pm ET - Abby Rubenfeld has a long and successful career as a civil right
attorney and has served on the board of directors of the Human Rights Campaign
and as the Legal Director of Lambda Legal Defense and Education Fund. She currently serves on the board of
directors of the ACLU of Tennessee and has a general law practice in Nashville
with an emphasis on family law, sexual orientation and AIDS-related
issues. She has been involved in
numerous civil rights cases, but her most high-profile one currently is Tanco v. Haslam, a suit demanding that
Tennessee recognize same-sex marriages performed in other jurisdictions.
Recently a federal judge in Nashville ruled in favor of such recognition and
said the state must immediately recognize the marriages of the three couples
who brought the suit. An appeals court, however, put the judge’s order on hold
while the case made its way through the appeals process. Then on Friday, January 16 the Supreme Court
of the United States announced a landmark decision to hear marriage equality
cases from Tennessee, Michigan, Ohio, and Kentucky. Abby who is representing the couples along
with other private attorneys and the National Center for Lesbian Rights joins
us today along with her clients Johno
Espejo and Matthew Mansell who
are plaintiffs in the case to discuss tomorrows arguments before the Supreme Court and the many recent developments concerning marriage equality for all
Americans.
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