History was made at the United States Supreme Court today as the highest court in the land ruled that same-sex couples have a constitutional right to legally marry, in all 50 states and Puerto Rico. In doing so, the United...
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Today, the United States Supreme Court decided two landmark cases regarding same-sex marriage. The first case, Hollingsworth v. Perry, sought involved the constitutionality of California’s Proposition 8. Proposition...
Adam Liptak of the New York Times has written a brief preview of the the first of the two same-sex marriage case that the Supreme Court will hear this week. The first case, Hollingsworth v. Perry, No. 12-144, which the court...
Today, Maryland's highest court (Court of Appeals), in the case of Port v. Cowan, unanimously ruled that the state can grant divorces to same-sex couples legally married in other states. The decision states that “a valid...
In the wake of New York’s new same-sex marriage law (The Marriage Equality Act), many may forget that some states that refuse to allow same-sex marriage do offer what is known as a “civil union.” Civil unions, first...