The 1989 standards have been adopted in part or in whole by 49 states, according to Glenda Lappan, president of the council of math teachers.
Dr. Sterr said the therapy had produced impressive results but had not been widely adopted, in part because of its extraordinary demands.
Mr. Romney's stance on out-of-state couples is based on a 1913 law, adopted in part to bar interracial marriages.
But neither the regulations nor the law were adopted, in part because some of the state's major cultural institutions argued they were unnecessary.
Worse, prevailing Republican rhetoric, adopted in part by Democrats, portends more budget cuts, which would leave the agencies unable to enforce current rules, let alone new ones.
Controversial though his ideas were, many were adopted, in part at least, by the major powers before and during World War II.
The lawsuit began after same-sex marriage became legal in Massachusetts in May 2004 and Gov. Mitt Romney, an opponent of it, invoked the 1913 statute, which had been originally adopted in part to block interracial marriages.
The lawsuits challenge Governor Romney's decision to invoke a 1913 law, adopted in part to block interracial marriage, that forbids Massachusetts to marry a couple if their marriage would be "void" in their home state.
The prequel, which would be filmed in the anime style adopted in part of Kill Bill: Vol 1, is to focus on the story of assassin Bill, voiced once again by David Carradine.
The lawsuits, to be publicly announced Thursday and filed in state court on Friday, concern Mr. Romney's decision to invoke a 1913 statute, which was adopted in part to block interracial marriages and says that Massachusetts cannot marry any couple if their marriage would be void in their home state.
