First, he revived a forgotten 1913 law barring out-of-state couples who cannot legally wed in their home states from marrying in Massachusetts.
The lawsuit, filed Feb. 3, asserts that the New York State Liquor Authority violates the Constitution's commerce clause by barring out-of-state winemakers from obtaining licenses to distribute alcoholic beverages directly to New Yorkers.
Yet the Coalition tightened student finance regulations three years ago, barring scores of state educated high-flyers from university – although officials claim it was just a tweak to existing rules.
Hers is expected to go further in some areas, by including such reforms as barring secretaries of state, who count the votes, from participating in partisan politics, and requiring fairer procedures for purging voters from the rolls.
And so on Thursday the Gossmans (Kristin took Katy's last name), who live in Meriden, Conn., became plaintiffs in a lawsuit challenging the decision of Gov. Mitt Romney to bar out-of-state same-sex couples from marrying in Massachusetts.
However, citing a 1913 law that barred out-of-state residents from getting married in Massachusetts if their union would be illegal in their home state, he said no marriage licenses were to be issued to those people not planning to move to Massachusetts.
Last month, reacting to a defeat in a similar federal court case, the Justice Department sought to block such disclosures by means of an emergency rule that barred employees of state, county or private jails from identifying their immigrant inmates.
(AP) PROVISIONAL BALLOTS MICHIGAN: ORDER TO COUNT PROVISIONAL BALLOTS Judge David M. Lawson of Federal District Court for the Eastern District, in Detroit, barred Secretary of State Terri Lynn Land, a Republican, from ordering election officials not to count provisional ballots unless voters are shown to have voted in the right precinct.
Several Republican senators unsuccessfully proposed legislation barring bailouts of states and municipalities a week after the city's filing.
The lobsters around Fishers Island at the eastern end of Long Island Sound might live in New York waters, but they are not really New Yorkers, and New York State cannot legally bar out-of-state fishermen from taking them, a federal appeals court ruled.
