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2 Sep 2013, 9:01 pm by Joanna L. Grossman
Evans (1993), the Court had held that even under the lowest level of scrutiny, a law motivated by animus against a disfavored group could not survive. [read post]
2 Sep 2013, 4:05 am by Howard Friedman
Conkle, Evolving Values, Animus, and Same-Sex Marriage, (Indiana Law Journal, Volume 89 (January 2014, Forthcoming)).James G. [read post]
19 Aug 2013, 2:08 pm
This year's program examines the Court's decisions in areas including search and seizure, habeas corpus, criminal law, same-sex marriage, affirmative action, intellectual property and class action suits. [read post]
11 Aug 2013, 9:01 pm by David S. Kemp
Evans, where the Court struck down a Colorado law effectively classifying that state’s citizens on the basis of sexual orientation with no legitimate governmental purpose. [read post]
23 Jul 2013, 9:01 pm by Sherry F. Colb
This past March, France’s National Ethics Committee made the determination that sexual surrogacy is an “unethical use of the human body for commercial purposes. [read post]
23 Jul 2013, 5:42 am by Howard Friedman
Evans, held in a 15-page opinion:Quintessentially, Plaintiffs have established a substantial likelihood that they will prevail at trial on their claim that by treating lawful same sex marriages differently than it treats lawful opposite sex marriages (e.g., marriages of first cousins and marriages of minors), Ohio law, as applied here, violates the United States Constitution which guarantees that "No State shall make or enforce any law which shall ...… [read post]
5 Jul 2013, 6:16 am by Erin Daly
Windsor, striking down the federal Defense of Marriage Act, it is useful to first see what this case is not, but what, in lesser hands, it might have been.This is not a case about privacy, like Lawrence and Bowersbefore it. [read post]
2 Jul 2013, 1:41 pm
The other day, I was blogging about tags, and somebody asked what are all the tags. [read post]
30 Jun 2013, 9:01 pm by Michael C. Dorf
Windsor, Justice Kennedy wrote for himself and the liberal wing of the Court that by adopting a uniform federal definition of marriage in Section 3 of the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA), Congress had departed from the “history and tradition of reliance on state law to define marriage. [read post]
27 Jun 2013, 9:00 pm by Marci A. Hamilton
  The Court stated as follows: “In order to assess the validity of [DOMA’s rejection of same-sex marriage as marriage for federal purposes] it is necessary to discuss the extent of the state power and authority over marriage as a matter of history and tradition. [read post]
27 Jun 2013, 4:23 pm by Pamela Wolf
The Court appears to have applied the standard used in its 1969 Rumer v Evans holding: “‘[d]iscriminations of an unusual character especially require careful consideration. [read post]
27 Jun 2013, 4:23 pm by Pamela Wolf
The Court appears to have applied the standard used in its 1969 Rumer v Evans holding: “‘[d]iscriminations of an unusual character especially require careful consideration. [read post]
26 Jun 2013, 2:00 pm by Joanna L. Grossman
DOMA: 1996-2013 When Congress enacted the Defense of Marriage Act in 1996, it was a sign that the same-sex marriage wars were heating up. [read post]
26 Jun 2013, 10:05 am by JB
Evans is a classic case about class and caste legislation. [read post]