<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:HelveticaNeue-Light, Helvetica Neue Light, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif;font-size:16px"><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1412781206955_2494" dir="ltr">Kennedy's having second thoughts...</div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1412781206955_2494" dir="ltr"><br></div><div class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px auto; padding: 0px 15px; border: 0px; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 14px; vertical-align: baseline; position: relative; float: none; width: 807.484375px;"><h1 style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 15px; margin-bottom: 11px; border: 0px; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 3.2rem; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: normal; line-height: 1.125; vertical-align: baseline; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;" class="">Supreme Court Temporarily Blocks Gay Marriage In Idaho, Nevada</h1></div><div id="story-meta" class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; 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position: static; float: none; width: 690px; color: rgb(17, 17, 17); max-width: 690px;" class="">Supreme Court Justice <culink class="" culang="en" href="http://undefined/en/topic/Anthony Kennedy" title="" style="box-sizing: border-box; border-bottom-color: rgb(98, 209, 193) !important;">Anthony Kennedy</culink> has <a href="http://www.scotusblog.com/2014/10/idaho-asks-same-sex-marriage-delay/#more-218812" style="box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(71, 116, 204); -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; text-decoration: none;" class="">temporary blocked</a> Tuesday's <a href="http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/2014/10/07/354373981/appellate-court-strikes-down-gay-marriage-bans-in-idaho-nevada" style="box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(71, 116, 204); -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; text-decoration: none;" class="">appeals court decision</a> that struck down bans on same-sex marriage in Idaho and Nevada.</div><div style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-right: 80.734375px; margin-bottom: 1.3em; margin-left: auto; padding-right: 15px; padding-left: 15px; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 1.6rem; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.5; vertical-align: baseline; position: static; float: none; width: 690px; color: rgb(17, 17, 17); max-width: 690px;" class="">Officials in Idaho had filed a <a href="http://sblog.s3.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/14A374-Idaho-marriage-stay-applic.-10-814.pdf" style="box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(71, 116, 204); -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; text-decoration: none;" class="">last-minute appeal</a> to the Supreme Court following Tuesday's appeals court decision. In his order, Kennedy gave lawyers representing same-sex couples until 5 p.m. Thursday to respond to the appeal.</div><div style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-right: 80.734375px; margin-bottom: 1.3em; margin-left: auto; padding-right: 15px; padding-left: 15px; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 1.6rem; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.5; vertical-align: baseline; position: static; float: none; width: 690px; color: rgb(17, 17, 17); max-width: 690px;" class="">"The order means that gay and lesbian couples will not be able to obtain marriage licenses in that state in the meantime," <a href="http://www.scotusblog.com/2014/10/idaho-asks-same-sex-marriage-delay/" style="box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(71, 116, 204); -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; text-decoration: none;" class="">Lyle Denniston of the SCOTUSblog notes</a>.</div><div style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-right: 80.734375px; margin-bottom: 1.3em; margin-left: auto; padding-right: 15px; padding-left: 15px; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 1.6rem; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.5; vertical-align: baseline; position: static; float: none; width: 690px; color: rgb(17, 17, 17); max-width: 690px;" class=""><a href="http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2014/10/08/justice-kennedy-blocks-gay-marriage-ruling-in-idaho-nevada/?utm_content=bufferb999a&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_campaign=buffer" style="box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(71, 116, 204); -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; text-decoration: none;" class="">The Associated Press adds</a> that the order also applies to Nevada.</div><div style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-right: 80.734375px; margin-bottom: 1.3em; margin-left: auto; padding-right: 15px; padding-left: 15px; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 1.6rem; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.5; vertical-align: baseline; position: static; float: none; width: 690px; color: rgb(17, 17, 17); max-width: 690px;" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1412781206955_2505" class="">As we reported Tuesday, the appeals court ruling itself came <a href="http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/2014/10/06/354053308/supreme-court-won-t-hear-gay-marriage-cases-in-new-term" style="box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(71, 116, 204); -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; text-decoration: none;" class="">a day after</a> the Supreme Court gave tacit approval to similar decisions by three other circuit courts. The Supreme Court refused to hear an appeal of those rulings, thereby making same-sex marriage legal in 11 states. Gay marriage is now permitted in 30 U.S. states.</div><div style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-right: 80.734375px; margin-bottom: 1.3em; margin-left: auto; padding-right: 15px; padding-left: 15px; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 1.6rem; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.5; vertical-align: baseline; position: static; float: none; width: 690px; color: rgb(17, 17, 17); max-width: 690px;" class="">The AP adds that the delay in Idaho and Nevada could last just a few days.</div><div style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-right: 80.734375px; margin-bottom: 1.3em; margin-left: auto; padding-right: 15px; padding-left: 15px; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 1.6rem; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.5; vertical-align: baseline; position: static; float: none; width: 690px; color: rgb(17, 17, 17); max-width: 690px;" class="">"The full court almost certainly would weigh in to extend the delay much beyond the weekend," the news service said. "That has been the justices' practice in other cases in which a single justice initially blocked a ruling from taking effect."</div></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1412781206955_2494" dir="ltr" class="" style=""><br class="" style=""></div></div></body></html>