Allyn & Fortuna LLPPaula Lopez, July 6, 2015. On Friday, June 26, 2015, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in a 5-4 decision written by Justice Anthony Kennedy (and joined by Justices Ginsburg, Sotomayor, Kagan and Breyer) that the right to marry is a fundamental right protected by the Fourteenth Amendment. The Supreme Court’s decision in Obergefell et al. v. Hodges, et al. means that all states are required to license a marriage between couples of the same sex and to recognize out of state same-sex marriages. The Supreme Court’s decision reversed…
Paula Lopez, January 22, 2015. On Friday, January 16, 2015, the Supreme Court agreed to hear an appeal in four consolidated cases[i], challenging the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals’ decision upholding same-sex marriage bans in Michigan, Kentucky, Tennessee, and Ohio. The Supreme Court’s decision to finally take up the issue of gay marriage was foreseen by Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, who told a Minnesota audience in September 2014 that if the Sixth Circuit’s forthcoming decision created a split among the circuits by deviating from other decisions striking down…