A month after their wedding day, Amoy Barnes and Matthew Smalls can now laugh about the afternoon they nearly went home unmarried from Maplewood Municipal Court. The plan was simple: a quick courthouse ceremony on a Tuesday afternoon, followed by a small reception in the home they’d closed on a week earlier. Then the judge didn’t show. What was supposed to be a 15‑minute ceremony turned into a waiting game. For Smalls, a litigator with more than…
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