[Download] "Singer V. Hara" by Division One Court of Appeals of Washington " eBook PDF Kindle ePub Free
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- Title: Singer V. Hara
- Author : Division One Court of Appeals of Washington
- Release Date : January 20, 1974
- Genre: Law,Books,Professional & Technical,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 63 KB
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Appellants Singer and Barwick, both males, appeal from the trial court's order denying their motion to show cause by which they sought to compel King County Auditor Lloyd Hara to issue a marriage license to them. According to the parties' agreed statement of facts, appellants applied for a marriage license on September 20, 1971, and after respondent Hara refused to grant such a license, the motion to show cause was filed on April 27, 1972. In an order dated August 9, 1972, the trial court denied the motion on the basis that there was no prima facie showing that Washington law permits the marriage of two people of the same sex, and that the denial of a marriage license to two people of the same sex does not constitute an abridgement of any constitutional rights. Appellants' petition for writ of certiorari was denied by this court on September 22, 1972, but the denial was accepted as a proper notice of appeal from the trial court's order.