But for all these changes, hundreds of federal marriage perks, from a survivor's right to a spouse's Social Security benefits to the sponsorship of foreign partners, are still denied to gay couples, including those who are granted separate-and-not-equal civil unions by local governments.
And a 1996 United States Supreme Court ruling, they said, further restricted the grounds for granting separate trials.
But judges have long been loath to grant separate trials to defendants accused of acting together, according to defense lawyers.
The Agriculture Department would have to grant separate approval for the trees to be grown commercially, clearance that ArborGen is already seeking.
In his view, the only solution is to divide Iraq into regions, with geographic power sharing, granting separate Sunni and Shia regions the same autonomy already enjoyed by the Kurds.
The upgrading is based largely on a judgment by the wildlife service that the wording of the Endangered Species Act is inconsistent with granting separate legal status to animals in captivity.
Authorizations are shared between devices, however, which makes sense given that it's highly unlikely a user would want to grant separate permissions in this area to both.
You may wish to discuss granting separate financial and medical powers of attorney to different people.
But buried in the 254-page document, the agency also granted a separate extension for some rules.
The links with the school in Durham remained until 1963, when King's College was granted a separate charter and became the present university.
Acting today in the same case, the court granted a separate appeal, filed by the United States Chamber of Commerce and a group of regulated industries, that asked the justices to examine the Clean Air Act from a different perspective.
