NO APPEAL IN FEDERAL DOMA CASE: From 365Gay.com

Last week's ruling upholding the federal Defense of Marriage Act will not be appealed the attorney in the case announced Monday night.

"With the present Supreme Court not willing even to hear the Florida adoption case, and the possibility of newly appointed Supreme Court judges by the Bush administration being even more conservative, it would not be prudent at this time to continue this effort," said Ellis Rubin.

The case was the first legal challenge to federal DOMA.

The decision, Rubin said, followed a meeting with Matthew Coles, Director of the ACLU Lesbian and Gay Rights Project.

The case involved a Tampa lesbian couple who were married in Massachusetts.

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