The Florida Third District Court of Appeal has yet to rule in Oliver v. Stufflebeam, where the question is whether the Florida ban on same sex marriage recognition applies to also bar same sex divorce. But in early September, the Florida Supreme Court declined to hear a case out of the Second District that had certified the question as being one of great public importance. That was the Shaw case that I reported on here.
As I mentioned in my original post on Shaw, it is far likelier that the Florida Supreme Court will rule on this issue once the district courts have provided some guidance.
Because the Court declined to take the Shaw case based on the certified question, the Second District will now have to grapple with the issue itself.
UPDATE: The Stufflebeam argument took place on April 30th of this year. So it's now been just over 6 months without a decision.
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