DOMA & US Supreme Court Update

One week after Obama's reelection the United States Supreme Court has rescheduled the date when it will consider whether to grant review in Hollingsworth v. Perry (formerly Perry v. Brown), the federal constitutional challenge to California’s Proposition 8. The Perry case, along with several cases challenging the federal Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA), have been distributed for consideration at the Justices’ private Conference scheduled for Friday, November 30th. The Proposition 8 & DOMA cases had previously been distributed for the Conference of Tuesday, November 20. Enacted in November 2008, Proposition 8 eliminated the fundamental freedom of gay & lesbian Californians to marry. DOMA, which was enacted by Congress in 1996, nullifies the marriages of gay & lesbian couples for all purposes of federal law. If the Court grants review, the Justices will go on to consider whether Proposition 8 violates the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution. If the Court denies review, the February 2012 decision of the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit that struck down Proposition 8 is made permanent, ending four years of marriage inequality in California. The Supreme Court is expected to release an Order List with its decisions on cases it has granted or denied review from its November 30 Conference by Monday, December 3. In the event that the Court neither grants nor denies review in Perry by December 3, the Justices will discuss the case again at a future Conference. So DOMA & Prop 8 Drags On.
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