same-sex-marriage

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Case Title Lower Court Docketed Status Flags Tags Question Presented
25-233 Catharine Miller, et al. v. Civil Rights Department California 2025-08-28 Denied Amici (10) compelled-speech employment-division-smith free-speech public-accommodation religious-freedom same-sex-marriage Petitioner Cathy Miller runs a small bakery in Bakersfield, California, where she designs and creates custom wedding cakes. After she declined to desi…
23-5737 Roger Wilson v. Department of Justice, et al. Sixth Circuit 2023-10-10 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (3)IFP constitutional-rights dobbs-precedent due-process equal-protection fundamental-rights history-and-tradition obergefell-v-hodges originalist-interpretation same-sex-marriage substantive-due-process unenumerated-rights Does the Supreme Court's ruling in Dobbs v. Jackson apply to same-sex marriage rights?
22-7409 Joshua Adam Schulte v. United States Second Circuit 2023-05-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights due-process equal-protection federalism marriage same-sex-marriage Whether the Fourteenth Amendment's Due Process Clause requires states to recognize same-sex marriages performed in other states
22-521 Jack Pidgeon, et al. v. Sylvester Turner, Mayor of the City of Houston, Texas, et al. Texas 2022-12-05 Denied Response Waived civil-rights constitutional-law due-process equal-protection family-code fourteenth-amendment marriage-recognition same-sex-marriage texas-constitution Whether Texas Constitution article I, § 32 and Texas Family Code § 6.204 violate the Due Process and Equal Protection Clauses of the Fourteenth Amendm…
21-1212 Linsay Lorine Gatsby, nka Linsay Lorine Wallace v. Kylee Diane Gatsby Idaho 2022-03-07 Denied Relisted (2) child-custody civil-rights due-process equal-protection family-law fundamental-rights parental-rights same-sex-marriage Whether both members of a same-sex married couple have the same fundamental right as opposite-sex married couples to participate in the care, custody,…
20-8336 Guillermo Vera v. California, et al. Ninth Circuit 2021-06-16 Dismissed IFP civil-rights due-process equal-protection federalism full-faith-and-credit same-sex-marriage Whether the Fourteenth Amendment's Due Process Clause requires a State to recognize a same-sex marriage license from another State
19-926 Kim Davis v. David Ermold, et al. Sixth Circuit 2020-01-24 Denied Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (9) ashcroft-v-al-kidd civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process obergefell-v-hodges qualified-immunity religious-freedom same-sex-marriage sixth-circuit zablocki-v-redhail Whether the Sixth Circuit erred in its analysis of the right-to-marry for same-sex couples
19-7191 Janice Baker v. Macy's Florida Stores, LLC Florida 2020-01-07 Denied Relisted (2)IFP civil-procedure civil-rights due-process equal-protection federalism fourteenth-amendment same-sex-marriage standing takings Whether the Fourteenth Amendment's Due Process Clause requires States to recognize same-sex marriages validly performed in other States
19-6392 Jeffrey F. Evers v. Brian Foster, Warden Seventh Circuit 2019-10-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeals civil-procedure civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process federal-courts first-amendment free-exercise habeas-corpus merits-based-decision new-trial procedural-default public-accommodation religious-freedom same-sex-marriage standing state-licensing Does federal law under A952(c) permit a civil justice system to respond to a No-Merits review of a procedural default that can only be waived as a mer…
19-333 Arlene's Flowers, Inc., dba Arlene's Flowers and Gifts, et al. v. Washington, et al. Washington 2019-09-12 Rehearing Amici (10)Relisted (13) civil-rights compelled-speech content-based first-amendment free-exercise free-speech public-accommodation religious-freedom religious-hostility same-sex-marriage state-action strict-scrutiny Whether the State violates a floral designer's First Amendment rights to free exercise and free speech by forcing her to take part in and create custo…
18-1431 Frank G. v. Renee P.-F., et al. New York 2019-05-15 Denied Amici (8)Response Waived best-interests-of-child best-interests-of-the-child custody custody-determination due-process due-process-clause fourteenth-amendment obergefell-v-hodges parental-rights same-sex-marriage same-sex-partner Whether a state violates a biological parent's rights under the Fourteenth Amendment's Due Process Clause when it strips the parent of custody in favo…
18-819 Victoria Vasconcellos v. Debra Hamlin Illinois 2018-12-27 Denied civil-procedure civil-rights civil-union civil-unions constitutional-interpretation dissolution-action due-process equal-protection property-rights retroactive-application retroactive-legislation same-sex-couples same-sex-marriage same-sex-relationship statutory-recognition Whether, under the Illinois State and U.S. Constitutions, where a same-sex couple did not enjoy the legally recognized rights and benefits of civil un…