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Obergefell v. Hodges, 576 U.S. 644 (2015) (/ ˈoʊbərɡəfɛl / OH-bər-gə-fel), is a landmark decision of the Supreme Court of the United States which ruled that the fundamental right to marry is guaranteed to same-sex couples by both the Due Process Clause and the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment of the Constitution.
United States v. Windsor, 570 U.S. 744 (2013), is a landmark United States Supreme Court civil rights case [1] [2] [3] concerning same-sex marriage.The Court held that Section 3 of the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA), which denied federal recognition of same-sex marriages, was a violation of the Due Process Clause of the Fifth Amendment.
The U.S. Supreme Court agreed to hear appeals from that circuit's decision. On June 26, 2015, the U.S. Supreme Court struck down all state bans on same-sex marriage, legalized it in all fifty states, and required states to honor out-of-state same-sex marriage licenses in the case Obergefell v. Hodges. [12]
XIV; Colo. Const. art. II, § 30b. Romer v. Evans, 517 U.S. 620 (1996), is a landmark United States Supreme Court case dealing with sexual orientation and state laws. [ 1 ] It was the first Supreme Court case to address gay rights since Bowers v. Hardwick (1986), [ 2 ] when the Court had held that laws criminalizing sodomy were constitutional.
July 24, 2024 at 1:23 PM. Kim Davis, a former Kentucky county clerk who made national headlines nearly a decade ago for refusing to issue same-sex marriage licenses, is back in the news. Davis and ...
The Supreme Court is expected to decide on the legality of gay marriage any day now, and it's possible the ruling will surprise everybody and please nobody. Many constitutional scholars predict ...
The Supreme Court’s ruling Friday in favor of a Christian website designer who doesn’t want to make wedding websites for same-sex couples has raised a long list of legal questions. Among them ...
The U.S. Supreme Court agreed to hear appeals from that circuit's decision. On June 26, 2015, the U.S. Supreme Court struck down all state bans on same-sex marriage, legalized it in all fifty states, and required states to honor out-of-state same-sex marriage licenses in the case Obergefell v. Hodges.