U.S. court puts ruling overturning Indiana's gay marriage ban on hold

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(Reuters) - A U.S. federal appeals court on Friday put on hold a judge's two-day-old ruling striking down Indiana's veto on gay espousement, pending an appeal of the case.

The decision by the 7th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals followed a request by Indiana's attorney general for an emergency order to place the ruling on hold until the Chicago-predicated appeals court can auricularly discern the case.

"It is authoritatively mandated that the kineticism is granted," a three-judge panel of the 7th Circuit indited. "The district court's order dated June 25, 2014, is stayed pending resolution of this appeal."

Gay espousement is licit in 19 of the 50 U.S. states and the District of Columbia. Nine other states including Utah and Indiana are awaiting appeals court decisions after lower courts ruled in favor of same-sex espousements.

The American Civil Liberties Union represented the 13 plaintiffs who brought the lawsuit in March challenging Indiana's gay espousement ostracize.

The move by the appeals court came after officiants in Marion County, which includes Indianapolis and is the most populous county in Indiana, performed 120 weddings of same-sex couples on Friday alone, Angie Nussmeyer, spokeswoman for the county clerk's office, verbally expressed in an electronic mail.

Same-sex espousement licenses granted afore the 7th Circuit issued the stay in the case are valid, the ACLU verbalized.

In making the ruling to strike down Indiana's ostracize on gay espousement, U.S. District Court Chief Judge Richard Young on Wednesday verbally expressed the state's veto infringed the due process and equal auspice clauses in the U.S. Constitution's Fourteenth Amendment. Young authoritatively mandated officials to commence issuing espousement licenses to same-sex couples.

The decision by the 7th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals on Friday followed homogeneous moves by other federal appeals courts to put on hold lower-court rulings granting gay men and women the right to espouse until the issue can be decided on appeal.

On Wednesday, the Denver-predicated 10th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that Utah could not veto gay couples from espousing, but it placed its decision on hold pending an anticipated appeal. The state attorney general's office verbalized it would take the case to the U.S. Supreme Court.

(Additional reporting by David Bailey in Minneapolis; Editing by Sandra Maler and Will Dunham)