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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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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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Alford v. Moulder

3:16-cv-00350 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Mississippi

Filed Date: May 9, 2016

Closed Date: 2018

On May 9, 2016, the Mississippi chapter of the ACLU and two gay individuals who were engaged filed this lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Mississippi. The plaintiffs sued the state of Mississippi under 42 U.S.C § 1983, alleging that the state’s Protecting Freedom of Conscience from Government Discrimination Act, which allowed businesses to refuse to provide services based on their religious beliefs, violated the due process and equal protection clauses of the Fourt…
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Adams v. Howerton

2:79-cv-01003 | U.S. District Court for the Central District of California

Filed Date: March 14, 1979

Closed Date: 1982

In 1979, a same-sex couple brought this suit in the United States District Court for the Central District of California. The plaintiffs had been married by a county clerk in Boulder, Colorado in 1975 (after the clerk had consulted with a District Attorney and concluded that Colorado law did not prohibit same-sex marriage). The plaintiff couple included an American citizen and an Australian citizen. The Australian citizen's visa had expired in 1974, and INS had begun deportation proceedings agai…
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Commonwealth v. Clary

11-CR-3329 | Kentucky state trial court

Filed Date: Oct. 29, 2011

Closed Date: 2014

The defendant was charged with the October 29, 2011, murder of a 64-year-old man, who died from head trauma after being struck with a blunt object. The defendant was also charged with first-degree robbery and tampering with physical evidence and sentenced at the State court of Kentucky. The case was assigned to Judge Susan Schultz-Gibson. The defendant was represented by a private attorney. The defendant claimed that she was raped by the victim and hit him in the head with a hammer as self-defe…
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Wolf v. Walker

3:14-cv-00064 | U.S. District Court for the Western District of Wisconsin

Filed Date: Feb. 3, 2014

Closed Date: July 7, 2015

Four same-sex couples in Wisconsin filed this federal lawsuit on Feb. 3, 2014, challenging Wisconsin's 2006 constitutional amendment that barred same-sex marriage, and a "marriage evasion law" prohibiting couples - gay and straight - from going elsewhere to marry if the marriage would be prohibited in the state. (Penalties for violating this law, which is apparently unique to Wisconsin, include up to $10,000 in fines and nine months in prison.) Represented by the ACLU LGBT Project, the ACLU of…