ALBANY – The state Court of Appeals yesterday affirmed on narrow grounds the recognition of same-sex marriages by a county executive and a state agency, but by a bare 4-3 margin declined to extend full recognition to all such marriages contracted in other states and countries where they are legal.
Rather, the four-judge majority importuned the Legislature to resolve that question as the Court pleaded in 2006 when it decided that same-sex couples have no constitutional right to wed within the state but left open the status of same-sex marriages contracted outside the state.
