Same-Sex "Marriage" Cases

Current and Recent Cases

Goodridge v. Dept. of Publ. Health, SJC Docket # SJC-08860 (Mass.)

Lewis v. Harris, Docket #15-03, Mercer County Super. Ct. (N.J.)

Morrison v. Sadler, Docket #49A02-0305-CV-447, (Ind. Ct. App.)

Standhardt v. Superior Court, Docket # 1 CA SA-03-0150 (Ariz. Ct. App.)

Citizens for Equal Protection v. Attorney General, Docket # 4:03CV3155 (D. Neb.) (alleging that the Nebraska Marriage Amendment is unconstitutional under the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution)

Samuels and Gallagher, et al., v. New York

Li and Kennedy, et al., v. State of Oregon, et al.

Woo, et al., v. Lockyer

Hernandez, et al., v. Robles, Index # 103434/2004

Deane & Polyak, et al., v. Conaway, et al. (MD)

Merritt, et al., v. Gardner (FL)

People of New York v. West (NY) (trial of the New York mayor who performed unauthorized same-sex "marriages")

Anderson, et al., v. Sims, et al. (WA)

1990-1999

Baehr v. Lewin, 852 P.2d 44 (Haw. 1993);
Baehr v. Miike, No. 91-1394, 1996 WL 694235 (Haw. Cir.Ct. Dec. 3, 1996);
Baehr v. Miike, 994 P.2d 566 (Haw. 1999) (unpublished).

Dean v. District of Columbia, 653 A.2d 307 (D.C. 1995)

Storrs v. Holcomb
645 N.Y.S.2d 286 (N.Y. Sup. Ct., 1996)
666 N.Y.S.2d 835 (N.Y. App. Div., 1997)

Quilter v. Attorney General
[1998] 1 NZLR 523 (New Zealand Court of Appeals, Wellington.)

Brause v. Bureau of Vital Statistics, No. 3AN-95-6562, 1998 WL 88743 (Alaska Super. Ct. Feb. 27, 1998).

Baker v. State, 744 A.2d 864 (Vt. 1999)

 

1970-1974

Anonymous v. Anonymous, 325 N.Y.S.2d 499 (Sup. Ct. 1971)

Baker v. Nelson, 191 N.W.2d 185 (Minn. 1971), appeal dismissed for lack of substantial federal question, 409 U.S. 810 (1972)

Jones v. Hallahan, 501 S.W.2d 588 (Ky. 1973)

Singer v. Hara, 522 P.2d 1187 (Wash. Ct. App. 1974)