Texas officials had refused to amend a dying man’s same-sex spouse’s death certificate to reflect the U.S. Supreme Court’s historic ruling eliminating same-sex marriage bans.
But in the afternoon on Aug. 5, after the widower filed earlier in the day an emergency motion, U.S. District Judge Orlando Garcia of the Western District of Texas in San Antonio issued an order that requires the Texas Department of State Health Services to issue immediately an amended death certificate.
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