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NetChoice LLC v. Paxton

1:21-cv-00840 | U.S. District Court for the Western District of Texas

Filed Date: Sept. 22, 2021

Two trade associations filed suit against Ken Paxton, the Attorney General of Texas, in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Texas on September 22, 2021. Represented by private counsel, they challenged a Texas state law, H.B. 20, that placed restrictions on social media platforms with over 50 million active users in the United States within one calendar month. They targeted two sections: section 2, which implemented detailed disclosure and moderation requirements, and section 7, …
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Robicheaux v. Caldwell

2:13-cv-05090 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana

Filed Date: July 16, 2013

Closed Date: 2015

On July 16, 2013, a Louisiana resident, who had legally married his husband in Iowa, filed a lawsuit against the State of Louisiana in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana under 42 U.S.C. § 1983. The plaintiff, represented by private counsel, asked the court for declaratory and injunctive relief, claiming that Louisiana laws which denied recognition of valid, out-of-state same-sex marriages were unconstitutional. Specifically, the plaintiff alleged that Section 15 of th…
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Love v. Pence

4:14-cv-00015 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Indiana

Filed Date: March 7, 2014

Closed Date: Feb. 23, 2015

Plaintiffs in this federal marriage equality lawsuit are four same-sex Indiana couples -- two male, two female, one of each gender seeking to get married, and one of each gender seeking to have their out-of-state marriage recognized. They filed the lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Indiana on March 7, 2014, to challenge the constitutionality of Indiana's ban on same-sex marriage. Indiana's statute banning same-sex marriages and "void[ing]" out-of-state same-sex m…
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E.L. v. V.L.

CS-13-719 | Alabama state trial court

Filed Date: Oct. 31, 2013

Closed Date: 2016

On October 31, 2013, the plaintiff, V.L., filed this lawsuit against her ex-partner, E.L., in Alabama state court. Represented both by private counsel and a lawyer from the National Center for Lesbian Rights, V.L. asked the court, under Alabama common law, to recognize a Georgia judgment which made her a legal adoptive co-parent of E.L.'s biological children, to declare that the Georgia judgment gave V.L. legal rights to those children, to grant V.L. custody or joint custody of the children, an…
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Wilson v. Ake

8:04-cv-01680 | U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Florida

Filed Date: July 20, 2004

Closed Date: 2005

On July 20, 2004, a lesbian couple living in Florida filed a lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Florida against the U.S. Attorney General and Clerk for the Circuit and Country Courts of Hillsborough County, Florida, challenging the Federal Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA) and Florida's implementation of the statute. Plaintiffs brought their lawsuit after a clerk in the Circuit Court's Office in Hillsborough Country refused to recognize their Massachusetts marriage lice…
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Himmelberger v. Pennsylvania

1453 CD 2011 | Pennsylvania state trial court

Filed Date: Aug. 2, 2011

Closed Date: 2012

On August 2, 2011, the plaintiff, a beneficiary of the estate of her same-sex partner, filed suit in the Common Pleas Court of Pennsylvania against the Pennsylvania Department of Revenue. The plaintiff, represented by a private law firm, argued that the Full Faith and Credit clause of the U.S. Constitution required Pennsylvania to recognize her New Jersey civil union with respect to taxation of same-sex couples.The plaintiff and her partner entered into a civil union in New Jersey on March 8, 2…
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Adar v. Smith

2:07-cv-06541 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana

Filed Date: Oct. 9, 2007

Closed Date: 2011

On October 9, 2007, a same-sex couple residing in San Diego, California, with their adopted child who was born in Louisiana, filed this lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 against the State of Louisiana. The plaintiffs had asked Louisiana to issue a new original birth certificate identifying plaintiffs as the child's legal parents, but the state refused to do so. The plaintiffs, represented by Lambda Legal and private counsel, asked t…
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Smelt v. United States

8:09-cv-00286 | U.S. District Court for the Central District of California

Filed Date: March 9, 2009

Closed Date: 2009

On December 29, 2008, two men married in the state of California, filed suit against the United States, the State of California, and 'Does 1 through 1,000' alleging violations by the Federal Defense of Marriage Act ("DOMA", 1 U.S.C. §7) of the Full Faith and Credit, Equal Protection, and Due Process clauses to the Constitution, as well as the rights to Privacy, Speech, Travel, and the Ninth Amendment to the Constitution. The case was originally filed in Superior Court of California for the Cou…
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Borman v. Pyles-Borman

No. 2014CV36 | Tennessee state trial court

Filed Date: 2014

Closed Date: 2015

A Tennessee resident, who married his same-sex spouse in Iowa, filed this lawsuit in Tennessee state court under both the Equal Protection and the Full Faith and Credit Clauses, against the State of Tennessee. The plaintiff, represented by private counsel, requested that the State recognize his out-of-state same-sex marriage, so he could file for divorce in Tennessee. The plaintiff requested an injunction, challenging Tennessee's anti-recognition laws. He argued that these laws treated legal sa…
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Searcy v. Bentley

1:14-cv-00208 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Alabama

Filed Date: May 7, 2014

Closed Date: June 28, 2016

On May 7, 2014, a same-sex couple, who were legally married in California, filed this lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Alabama, under 42 U.S.C. § 1983, against the state of Alabama. One plaintiff had given birth to a child, whom the other plaintiff wanted to adopt. Under Alabama law, non-biological parents may adopt their "spouse's child." The plaintiffs were not considered spouses, however, because the state did not recognize same-sex marriages. As a result, thei…