MISSISSIPPI: Edith Windsor's Legal Team Files New Marriage Equality Lawsuit

From the Campaign For Southern Equality:

“As the lawyers who represented Edie Windsor, we are so honored to be able to file this case today on behalf of Rebecca Bickett, Andrea Sanders, Jocelyn Pritchett, Carla Webb, and the Campaign for Southern Equality. The Supreme Court took a gigantic step forward last year in Windsor, and since then, dozens of courts around the country have followed suit so that today, gay people in thirty-two states have the right to marry. It is now time to take the next big step by making sure that gay families in Mississippi are accorded these same protections. The Supreme Court has made it clear that no matter where a gay person lives —whether it is in Maine, Minnesota, or Mississippi—our Constitution requires that they be treated with the same dignity and respect under the law as everyone else,” says lead counsel Roberta Kaplan.

View the lawsuit. Last year a lawsuit was filed on behalf of a Mississippi woman seeking to have her out-of-state marriage recognized for the purpose of divorce. Today's suit is the first to seek an outright overturn of Mississippi's ban on same-sex marriage. Mississippi is part of the Fifth Circuit Court, which has yet to rule on the appeal out of Texas.