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March 30, 2006

Mass. high court says nonresident gays cannot marry in Mass.

BOSTON -- The court that made Massachusetts the first state to legalize gay marriage ruled today that same-sex couples from other states cannot marry here.

The Supreme Judicial Court ruled in a challenge to a 1913 state law that forbids nonresidents from marrying in Massachusetts if their marriage would not be recognized in their home state.

The eight couples who sued are from Connecticut, Rhode Island, New Hampshire, Vermont, Maine and New York.

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-- The Associated Press

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