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Supreme court to take up marriage equality in Prop 8, DOMA challenges
The Supreme Court of the United States announced on Friday that it would take on two cases that address marriage rights of LGBT people in the United States. The court will address both California’s same sex marriage ban, Proposition 8, and the federal Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA). Hollingsworth v.…
Second federal appeals court strikes down Defense of Marriage Act
The 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals on Thursday because the second federal appeals court to find parts of the so-called Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA) to be unconstitutional. A three-judge panel in Manhattan ruled that Section 3 of DOMA violated the equal protection clause of the U.S. Constitution. The…
Bush-appointed federal judge rules DOMA unconstitutional
A federal judge in Connecticut on Tuesday ruled that Section 3 of the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA) violates the U.S. Constitution’s guarantee of equal protection under the law. Judge Vanessa L. Bryant, an appointee of President George W. Bush, held that the law was unconstitutional because it prohibits legally…
83-year-old lesbian asks Supreme Court to review Defense of Marriage Act
Attorneys representing an 83-year-old lesbian woman on Monday asked the U.S. Supreme Court to hear her challenge to the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA). Edith “Edie” Windsor challenged the law after the federal government failed to recognize her marriage to her partner Thea Spyer, after Spyer’s death in 2009. Windsor…
Sen. Hatch: DOMA not motivated by ‘animus’ towards gays and lesbians
Sen. Orrin Hatch (R-UT) and ten other Senate Republicans on Monday urged the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals to uphold the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA). In a friend-of-the-court brief (PDF), Hatch and his colleagues asserted that Congress’s enactment of DOMA was not motivated by “animus” towards gay and…
Boston court of appeals finds DOMA unconstitutional
A federal appeals court in Boston has found that the 1996 Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA) is unconstitutional, according to the Associated Press. Today’s ruling by the 1st U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Boston upheld a 2010 ruling by a lower court judge who said that by defining marriage…
Federal judge declares DOMA, CA tax code unconstitutional for same sex couples
On Thursday evening U.S. District Court Judge Claudia Wilken of the Northern District of California ruled that the 1996 Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA) and a provision of the current California tax code place unconstitutional limits on domestic partners and members of same sex couples, according to Metro Weekly‘s political…
Same sex binational spouses could still face deportation while DOMA lives
On April 2, 2012, the immigration rights organization Immigration Equality filed Blesch v. Holder on behalf of five married same sex couples who faced forcible separation by the government of the United States under the Defense of Marriage Act because one spouse is not an American citizen. Because DOMA prohibits…
House approves amendment to prevent ‘undermining’ of DOMA
The U.S. House of Representatives on Wednesday night approved an amendment to the Commerce-Justice-Science Appropriations bill to prevent the Obama Administration from taking legal action against the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA) or state constitutional amendments prohibiting same sex marriage. “As many of us know, just last night the 30th…
Judge says denying benefits to same sex spouse is discriminatory
A federal judge in California ordered another court to pay the health insurance costs of an employee’s same sex spouse, in a finding that called denial of equal benefits to the couple discriminatory. It’s still not clear whether the ruling will actually result in payments for the court employee’s spouse,…
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