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Obergefell v. Hodges , 576 U.S. 644 (2015) ( / ˈ oʊ b ər ɡ ə f ɛ l / OH -bər-gə-fel ), was a landmark decision of the Supreme Court of the United States which ruled that the fundamental right to marry is guaranteed to same-sex couples by both the Due Process Clause and the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment of the ...
While his name is part of the landmark Obergefell v. Hodges Supreme Court ruling in 2015 that guaranteed the legal right for same-sex couples to get married, there is a love story behind the legal ...
Before 2015, whether a same-sex couple could marry varied by state. With its 5-4 decision in Obergefell v. Hodges, the Supreme Court extended the federal right to marry to same-sex couples. It was ...
In March 2015, lawyers preparing to argue a consolidation of the Supreme Court cases titled Obergefell v. Hodges selected Bonauto to argue [25] on behalf of the Michigan case DeBoer v. Snyder and the Kentucky case Love v. Beshear. On June 26, 2015, the Supreme Court ruled in favor of Bonauto and the plaintiffs thus declaring all state bans on ...
James Obergefell (/ ˈ oʊ b ər ɡ ə f ɛ l / OH-bər-gə-fel; born July 7, 1966) is an American civil rights activist who was the lead plaintiff in the 2015 U.S. Supreme Court case Obergefell v. Hodges, which legalized same-sex marriage throughout the United States. [1]
Windsor and Obergefell v. Hodges decision on June 26, 2023 in Washington, D.C. California, Colorado and Hawaii moved to protect same-sex marriage at the state level in the 2024 elections this week.
Obergefell v. Hodges , 576 U.S. 644 (2015) ( / ˈ oʊ b ər ɡ ə f ɛ l / OH -bər-gə-fel ), was a landmark decision of the Supreme Court of the United States which ruled that the fundamental right to marry is guaranteed to same-sex couples by both the Due Process Clause and the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment of the ...
Hodges took up his position as director of the Ohio Department of Health on August 11, 2014, under an appointment by Ohio governor John Kasich. [5] In his capacity as the Director of the Ohio Department of Public Health, Hodges was the lead-named respondent in the 2015 United States Supreme Court case Obergefell v. Hodges. The Supreme Court ...