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Marouf v. Azar

1:18-cv-00378 | U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia

Filed Date: Feb. 20, 2018

Case Ongoing

On February 20, 2018, a married same-sex couple filed this lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia against the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, the Administration for Children and Families, the Office of Refugee Resettlement, and the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) for violating the First Amendment's Establishment Clause and the Fifth Amendment’s Equal Protection and Substantive Due Process clauses. The plaintiffs were represented by Lam…
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Guzzo v. Mead

2:14-cv-00200 | U.S. District Court for the District of Wyoming

Filed Date: Oct. 7, 2014

Case Ongoing

This is a 2014-2015 lawsuit about the right of same-sex couples in Wyoming to marry in Wyoming and have their out-of-state same-sex marriages recognized in Wyoming. On October 7, 2014, four same-sex couples and Wyoming Equality filed a lawsuit in the United States District Court for the District of Wyoming under 42 U.S.C § 1983 against Wyoming. The four couples lived in Wyoming: two sought to get married in Wyoming and the others sought to have their marriages, performed in other jurisdictions,…
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McNosky v. Perry

1:13-cv-00631 | U.S. District Court for the Western District of Texas

Filed Date: July 29, 2013

Closed Date: Aug. 21, 2015

On July 29, 2013, a same-sex couple who was denied a marriage license brought suit in the U.S. District Court of the Western District of Texas against the state of Texas. The plaintiffs represented themselves pro se, and sought a declaration that any Texas statutes and state constitutional amendments that prohibited same-sex marriage were unconstitutional. They also sought preliminary and permanent injunctions to prevent the defendants from enforcing the same-sex marriage ban.The plaintiffs cla…
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Campaign for Southern Equality v. Bryant

3:14-cv-00818 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Mississippi

Filed Date: Oct. 20, 2014

On October 20, 2014, the Campaign for Southern Equality and two same-sex couples filed a lawsuit in the United States District Court for the Southern District of Mississippi under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 against the State of Mississippi. The Campaign for Southern Equality is a non-profit organization based in North Carolina that works to promote the legalization of same-sex marriage. The two couples lived in Mississippi. One couple sought to get married in the state and the other sought to have their …
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Carson v. Heigel

3:16-cv-00045 | U.S. District Court for the District of South Carolina

Filed Date: Jan. 7, 2016

Closed Date: June 15, 2017

The Plaintiffs, same-sex parents filing on behalf of their minor twins, filed this lawsuit in the District Court of South Carolina (Columbia Division) on January 7, 2016. The Plaintiffs sued the South Carolina Department of Health and Environmental Control/State Registrar of Vital Statistics under 42 U.S.C. § 1983. The Plaintiffs, represented by Lambda Legal Defense and Education Fund, Inc., sought declaratory and injunctive relief, claiming violations of Obergefell v. Hodges (PB-OH-0003)and ot…
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Jernigan v. Crane

4:13-cv-00410 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Arkansas

Filed Date: July 15, 2013

Closed Date: Dec. 4, 2015

On July 15, 2013, three same-sex couples filed suit in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Arkansas under 42 U.S.C. § 1983, challenging the constitutionality of Arkansas' laws prohibiting the marriage of same-sex couples and forbidding the recognition of legitimate same-sex marriages entered into in other states. The plaintiffs, represented by private counsel, asked the court for both declaratory and injunctive relief, alleging that Amendment 83 of the Arkansas Constitution vio…
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Dronenburg v. Brown

13-212172 | California state trial court

Filed Date: June 26, 2013

Closed Date: Aug. 14, 2013

On June 26, 2013, the Supreme Court issued its decision in Hollingsworth v. Perry. That case had challenged the constitutionality of California Prop. 8, which barred same-sex couples from getting married. On August 4, 2010, Judge Vaughn Walker, of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California, issued an opinion striking down Prop. 8. The opinion was stayed pending appeal to the 9th Circuit. The 9th Circuit eventually affirmed, but kept the stay in place during further revi…
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Pidgeon v. Parker

4:13-cv-03768 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Texas

Filed Date: Dec. 17, 2013

Case Ongoing

On December 17, 2013, plaintiffs, two Houston residents and taxpayers, filed a lawsuit in the Harris County, Texas family law court because the City's employee benefits program had become available to spouses of same-sex marriages. The complaint alleged violations of the Texas Family Code; the Houston City Charter; and the Texas Constitution against the City of Houston. The plaintiffs sought temporary and permanent injunctions to prevent the City from making the City's employee benefits program…
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Miller v. Davis

0:15-cv-00044 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Kentucky

Filed Date: July 2, 2015

Case Ongoing

On July 2, 2015, plaintiffs -- two same sex couples -- filed this lawsuit under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 against Rowan County Clerk Kim Davis, in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Kentucky. The plaintiffs, represented by the ACLU of Kentucky, asked the court for both injunctive and declaratory relief, alleging that Davis's refusal to issue marriage licenses to same sex couples violated their rights under the Fourteenth Amendment's Equal Protection and Due Process Clauses and the Firs…
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Henry v. Wymyslo

1:14-cv-00129 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Ohio

Filed Date: Feb. 10, 2014

Closed Date: 2015

On February 10, 2014, four same-sex couples and one of the couples' adopted children filed suit in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Ohio. Plaintiffs sought declaratory and injunctive relief under 42 U.S.C. § 1983, claiming that Ohio's ban on same sex marriage and the manner in which that ban was applied were unconstitutional under the Due Process and Full Faith and Credit Clauses of the United States Constitution. Specifically, several of the couples were expecting children …