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Lewis v. Harris

New Jersey state trial court

Filed Date: June 26, 2002

(This summary is temporary, while we research the case.) In June 2002, seven same-sex couples in New Jersey, represented by Lambda Legal, brought suit in New Jersey state court seeking marriage equality for gay and lesbian couples in New Jersey. In November 2003, the state trial court upheld the exclusion of same-sex couples from marriage in New Jersey; this decision was affirmed by the appellate division in June 2005. In October 2006, the seven justices of the New Jersey Supreme Court unanimou…
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State Of Texas v. United States Department of Homeland Security

6:24-cv-00306 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Texas

Filed Date: Aug. 23, 2024

In this case, a federal court permanently vacated the Biden Administration's policy that made it easier for some undocumented people to receive parole and green cards if they were the spouse or step-child of a U.S. citizen. This lawsuit was filed by 16 states on August 23, 2024 in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Texas. The states sued the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and the U.S. Office of Management and Budget (OMB), as well as the DHS Secretary, the Director …
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National Organization for Women-New York City v. United States Department of Defense

1:23-cv-06750 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York

Filed Date: Aug. 2, 2023

This case involved the U.S. Department of Veteran Affairs 2019 Regulations (“VA 2019 Regulations”), which permitted the U.S. Department of Veteran Affairs (“VA”) to provide in vitro fertilization (“IVF”) services to a veteran and the spouse of that veteran when clinically appropriate if the veteran has a “service-connected disability that results in the inability of the veteran to procreate without the use of fertility treatment.” 38 C.F.R. § 17.380(a)(1). The VA provided a memo that addressed …
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Sheffield v. U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs

1:23-cv-11757 | U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts

Filed Date: Aug. 2, 2023

This case involved Section 234 of the Military Construction, Veterans Affairs, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act of 2021 (“2021 Appropriations Act”), which gave the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (“VA”) the authority to provide in-vitro fertilization (“IVF”) services to veterans. The 2022 Appropriations Act was, in pertinent part, identical. Section 234 of the 2021 Appropriations Act authorized “fertility counseling and treatment using assisted reproductive technology to a covered ve…
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Anetekhai v. I.N.S.

88-00827 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana

Filed Date: Feb. 26, 1988

Closed Date: July 12, 1989

On February 26, 1988, two private plaintiffs — Mr. Anetekhai, a Nigerian citizen who initially entered the United States under a nonimmigrant student visa, as well as his wife, Mrs. Anetekhai, a U.S. citizen — filed a suit in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana against the Immigration and Naturalization Service (“INS”), seeking declaratory and injunctive relief that Section 5(b) of the Immigration Marriage Fraud Amendments of 1986 (“IMFA”) was unconstitutional, and tha…
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Stewart v. Heineman

CI 13-3157 | Nebraska state trial court

Filed Date: Aug. 27, 2013

On August 27, 2013, the plaintiffs, who were gay and lesbian couples in Nebraska, filed suit in the District Court of Lancaster County, Nebraska against the Nebraska Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) and the Nebraska Division of Children and Family Services. Represented by attorneys from the American Civil Liberties Union, the plaintiffs sued under 42 U.S.C. §1983 and the Nebraska Constitution, seeking declaratory and injunctive relief prohibiting the Department of Human Services f…
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Alaska v. Schmidt

3AN-10-09519CI | Alaska state trial court

Filed Date: Aug. 3, 2010

Closed Date: Dec. 15, 2014

In Alaska, AS 29.45.030(e) (the “Tax Exemption”) exempts qualifying senior citizens and disabled veterans in Alaska from taxation on up to $150,000 of the assessed value of their home. Married couples were able to claim the full $150,000 Tax Exemption regardless of whether the property was held in the name of the husband, wife, or both. However, same-sex domestic partners—who were barred from marrying or having their marriages recognized under Alaska law—were entitled to, at most, half of the f…
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Lee v. Orr

1:13-cv-08719 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois

Filed Date: Dec. 6, 2013

Closed Date: Feb. 21, 2014

Represented by Lambda Legal, the Roger Baldwin Foundation of the ACLU of Illinois, and private counsel, Plaintiffs, four same-sex Illinois couples who wished to legally marry in Illinois, filed a class action suit against the Cook County Clerk on December 6, 2013, in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois. Plaintiffs sought declaratory and injunctive relief, alleging the state’s ban on same-sex marriage violated their constitutional rights. The Plaintiff Class consisted o…
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Strawser v. Strange

1:14-cv-00424 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Alabama

Filed Date: Sept. 11, 2014

Closed Date: Jan. 20, 2017

On September 11, 2014, two men, married in their church but not allowed to marry under Alabama law, filed this § 1983 lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Alabama against the State of Alabama. The plaintiffs had applied, unsuccessfully, for a marriage license in Mobile County, Alabama. They initially represented themselves without lawyers. Later, the National Center for Lesbian Rights, Southern Poverty Law Center, ACLU of Alabama Foundation, Americans United for Separ…
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In re Balas and Morales

2:11-bk-17831 | U.S. District Court for the Central District of California

Filed Date: Feb. 24, 2011

Closed Date: June 13, 2011

Debtors are a legally married same-sex couple in California. They filed a joint petition for relief under Chapter 13 of the Bankruptcy Code on February 24, 2011, in the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Central District of California. Debtors filed their petition under the authority of  11 U.S.C. 302(a), which allows any eligible individual to file a joint petition jointly with “such individual debtor’s spouse.” On April 15, 2011, the U.S. Trustee filed a motion to dismiss under 11 U.S.C. 1307(c), …