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Obergefell v. Hodges, 576 U.S. 644 (2015) (/ ˈ oʊ b ər ɡ ə f ɛ l / 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 .
Advocates of Proposition 3 point to a concurring opinion by conservative Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas in the 2022 case overturning of Roe vs. Wade, which provided a right to abortion ...
U.S. Const. amend. 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 ...
November 29, 2022 at 3:40 PM. A rainbow flag in support of gay rights flies in front of the Supreme Court in 2015. (Astrid Riecken for the Washington Post via Getty Images) (The Washington Post ...
Oct 5 (Reuters) - The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday rebuffed a bid by a county clerk in Kentucky briefly jailed in 2015 for refusing to issue marriage licenses to two same-sex couples to avoid ...
As of 2015, same-sex marriage is now federally legal in all fifty states due to a ruling from the Supreme Court. However, in the aftermath of the Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization ruling, statutory or constitutional bans on same-sex marriages have received renewed attention over its applicability should Obergefell be overturned.
The N.J. Supreme Court refuses to stay the ruling and the state defendants drop their appeal. Griego v. Oliver, 316 P.3d 865 (N.M. 2013). The New Mexico Supreme Court rules that the State Constitution requires marriage rights to be extended to same-sex couples. Kitchen v. Herbert, 961 F. Supp. 2d 1181 (2013). U.S. district court rules Utah's ...