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Alaska v. Schmidt

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

Filed Date: Aug. 3, 2010

Closed Date: Dec. 15, 2014

(This summary is temporary, while we research the case.) According to the ACLU's case description: Alaska allows cities to reduce property taxes on elderly or disabled married couples, but wouldn't allow same-sex couples access to that benefit. The ACLU of Alaska, along with the national ACLU LGBT & AIDS Project and Davis Wright Tremaine, represented a group of same-sex domestic partners whom both Alaska and Anchorage excluded from this otherwise widespread benefit. On their behalf, we asked a …
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Jackson v. Abercrombie

1:11-cv-00734 | U.S. District Court for the District of Hawaii

Filed Date: Dec. 7, 2011

On January 27, 2012, a same-sex couple and another individual in a same-sex relationship, all citizens of Hawaii, filed a lawsuit in the U.S. District Court of Hawaii under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 against the state of Hawaii. The plaintiffs, represented by private attorneys, asked the court for a declaration that the restriction of the right of marriage to opposite sex couples under § 572-1 of the H.R.S and under the "marriage amendment" violates Due Process and Equal Protection under the U.S. Constit…
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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 …
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In re Clark

13-80100 | No Court

Filed Date: 2013

On August 1, 2012, an assistant federal public defender for the District of Oregon filed a complaint under the Employment Dispute Resolution Plan for Federal Public Defenders and Staff (“Plan”), claiming discrimination on the basis of her sexual orientation. The complainant’s same-sex spouse was denied health benefits under the Federal Employees Health Care Benefits ("FEHB") program. The Federal Employees Health Benefits Act ("FEHBA") established the FEHB program, which provides FPD employees a…
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Sevcik v. Sandoval

2:12-cv-00578 | U.S. District Court for the District of Nevada

Filed Date: April 10, 2012

Closed Date: Jan. 9, 2015

This is a case brought by eight same-sex couples seeking to marry or have their marriages recognized by the State of Nevada. Represented by Lambda Legal and private counsel, they brought suit in the U.S. District Court for the District of Nevada, suing the Governor and several clerks/recorders. The Nevada Constitution prohibited official recognition of same-sex marriages. See Nev. Const. art. I, § 21 ("Only a marriage between a male and female person shall be recognized and given effect in [N…
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Gibson v. Himes

1:14-cv-00347 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Ohio

Filed Date: April 30, 2014

Closed Date: 2014

On April 30, 2014, six same-sex couples filed a lawsuit in the Southern District of Ohio U.S. District Court against the State of Ohio. The plaintiffs, represented by private counsel, sought a declaration that Ohio laws banning same-sex marriage were in violation of the Constitution, an injunction against enforcing the ban, and an award of compensation for attorney's fees and costs.Specifically, the plaintiffs alleged that their rights to due process and equal protection had been abridged. The …
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Fisher-Borne v. Smith

1:12-cv-00589 | U.S. District Court for the Middle District of North Carolina

Filed Date: June 13, 2012

Closed Date: 2017

On June 13, 2012, several same-sex couples filed a lawsuit in the Middle District of North Carolina, under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 against the state of North Carolina. The plaintiffs, represented by the American Civil Liberties Union, asked the court to declare that laws banning same-sex couples from participating in second-parent adoption violated the U.S. Constitution, direct the defendants to recognize same-sex out-of-state marriages, allow same-sex couples to enter into marriage in North Carolina,…
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Bostic v. McDonnell

2:13-cv-00395 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia

Filed Date: July 18, 2013

Closed Date: 2015

On July 18, 2013, two Virginia residents filed a lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia against the state of Virginia under 42 U.S.C. § 1983. The plaintiffs, represented by private counsel, asked the court for both declaratory and injunctive relief barring enforcement of Va. Code §§ 25-45.2 and 20-45.4 and Article I, § 15-A of the Virginia Constitution, alleging that these provisions are unconstitutional. Specifically, the plaintiffs allege that these Virginia l…
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Harris v. McDonnell

5:13-cv-00077 | U.S. District Court for the Western District of Virginia

Filed Date: Aug. 1, 2013

Closed Date: 2015

On August 1, 2013, two same-sex couples filed this suit in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Virginia against the state of Virginia, under 42 U.S. § 1983 and the Declaratory Judgment Act. The plaintiffs, represented by the national ACLU, the ACLU of Virginia, Lambda Legal and private counsel, asked the court for both declaratory and injunctive relief, alleging that the state's refusal to allow same-sex couples to marry or to recognize same-sex couples married in other states v…
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Evans v. Utah

2:14-cv-00055 | U.S. District Court for the District of Utah

Filed Date: Jan. 6, 2014

Closed Date: Nov. 24, 2014

In Kitchen v. Herbert, on December 20, 2013, the U.S. District Court for the District of Utah found Utah's ban on same-sex marriage unconstitutional. About 1,300 same-sex marriages took place in Utah between that order and January 6, 2014, when the Supreme Court granted the state an emergency stay of order in Kitchen. Although these marriages were recognized as legal by U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder, the State declined to recognize them. Instead, on January 8th, 2014, the Governor's offic…