LAURENCE TRIBE SAYS CIVIL UNIONS MAY BE ACCEPTABLE TO MASS COURT: From the Boston Herald

[Eve notes: This is interesting because Prof. Tribe has said previously--here, for example--that civil unions would not pass the court's muster.]

Lawmakers' latest effort to avoid gay marriage by passing lesser civil unions might well meet constitutional muster with the state's sharply
divided Supreme Judicial Court, a leading constitutional scholar said yesterday.

Harvard professor Laurence H. Tribe's remarks came just hours after the state Senate passed a civil union bill and voted to ask the high court
whether the creation of civil unions with rights equivalent to marriage--but not the title--would satisfy the landmark Nov. 18 ruling
legalizing gay marriage.

While cautioning that nobody has a "crystal ball,'' Tribe pointed to the long-agonized, 4-3 nature of the SJC decision and said civil unions
might be enough to flip one of the justices in the majority, in the wake of political leaders' outcry against full-blown gay marriage.

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