Thursday, January 24, 2013
Supreme Court receives opening briefs in same-sex marriage cases
[JURIST] The US Supreme Court [official website] received briefs in two separate cases on Tuesday defending the constitutionality of laws that define marriage as strictly between one man and one woman. The first case, Hollingsworth v. Perry [docket; cert. petition, PDF], examines the validity of Proposition 8 [JURIST news archive], a California referendum that revoked same-sex marriage rights. In their brief [text, PDF] in support of the law, a group of California citizens argued that they have standing to defend...
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