In June 2014, the United States Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit affirmed the decision of the district court, finding that Utah's ban on same-sex marriage was unconstitutional, but stayed their mandate …

On that note: Roberts puts forth as a rational basis for same-sex marriage bans, a State’s “legitimate state interest” in “preserving the traditional institution of marriage”, id. at 707 (citation omitted).

The case was filed on behalf of eight same-sex couples who either were denied marriage licenses in Nevada or sought recognition of lawful out-of-state marriages, challenging Nevada's statutory and …

Jun 26, 2003 · Instead the Court simply describes petitioners’ conduct as “an exercise of their liberty”–which it undoubtedly is–and proceeds to apply an unheard-of form of rational-basis review …

Via various state statutes and a state constitutional amendment, Virginia prevents same-sex couples from marrying and refuses to recognize same-sex marriages performed elsewhere.

In each case, the courts used rational basis review to invalidate, on equal protection grounds, a legislative classification based on sexual orientation. I argue that while some of the approaches …

One of the numerous repercussions of this decision, see supra note 2, was to encourage defenders of the non-recognition of same-sex marriage to raise a more vigorous defense, such as arguing that …

In Hollingsworth v Perry,26 the Court overturned a district court’s decision to allow closed-circuit televising of the trial chal-lenging California’s ban on same-sex marriage.

Aug 9, 2012 · A federal district court in Hawaii has upheld the state’s constitutional ban on same-sex marriage in a ruling that stands in stark contrast to recent multiple decisions that have struck...

The cases on appeal to the Supreme Court from the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit include some in which the demand is not for the issuance of a marriage license, but for state recognition of a …