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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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Earl Ball and Timothy Hare v. Pennsylvania

Pennsylvania state trial court

Filed Date: 2013

(This summary is temporary, while we research the case.) In 2013, a gay male couple from Easton, Pennsylvania filed this lawsuit challenging a 1996 Pennsylvania law that banned same-sex marriage.
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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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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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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), …
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Love v. Beshear

3:13-cv-00750 | U.S. District Court for the Western District of Kentucky

Filed Date: July 26, 2013

Closed Date: Feb. 10, 2016

On July 26, 2013, a same-sex couple married under the laws of Ontario filed a lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Kentucky under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 against the governor, attorney general, secretary of state of Kentucky and two county clerks. The plaintiffs challenged the constitutionality of Kentucky's laws prohibiting same-sex couples from marrying and voiding within Kentucky marriages of same-sex couples validly entered into under the laws of other states or countries…
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Conde-Vidal v. Garcia-Padilla

3:14-cv-01253 | U.S. District Court for the District of Puerto Rico

Filed Date: March 25, 2014

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On March 25, 2014, a same-sex couple filed a pro se complaint in the United States District Court for the District of Puerto Rico. The couple, legally married in another state, asked the District Court to enter an order ruling Article 68 of the Civil Code of Puerto Rico, 31 L.P.R.A. § 221, unconstitutional. The law in question limits marriage to unions between one man and one woman. The plaintiffs argued it violates their rights to due process and equal protection in violation of the Fourteenth…
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Donaldson v. State of Montana

BDV-2010-702 | Montana state trial court

Filed Date: July 22, 2010

Closed Date: Aug. 26, 2015

Plaintiffs are private individuals in committed same-sex relationships who brought suit against the State of Montana in 2010 complaining that they are unable to obtain various benefits available to opposite-sex, married couples. Represented by the ACLU, plaintiffs expressly challenged only the benefits aspects of marriage-like relationships, and did not seek the right to marry or recognition of their relationships as marriages. The State District Court denied Plaintiffs' motion for summary judg…