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FORUM FOR EQUALITY PAC v. McKEITHEN

Nos. 2004-CA-2477, 2004-CA-2523.

893 So.2d 715 (2005)

FORUM FOR EQUALITY PAC, a Registered Louisiana Political Action Committee, Louisiana Log Cabin Republicans, an Unincorporated Louisiana Association, Laurence E. Best, Jeanne M. LeBlanc, Gerald W. Thibodeaux, William A. Schultz, and Julie A. Jacobs v. The Honorable W. Fox McKEITHEN, in his Official Capacity as Secretary of State of Louisiana only, and not Individually, and the City of New Orleans.

Supreme Court of Louisiana.

January 19, 2005.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Charles C. Fonti, Jr., Attorney General, Angie Rogers, LaPlace, Thomas S. Halligan, Merietta Spencer Norton, Assistant Attorneys General,; J. Michael Johnson, Patrick A. Trueman, for applicants.

Evans & Clesi, Kenneth Randall Evans, New Orleans; John Dowling Rawls, New Orleans; Martzell & Bickford, Regina O. Matthews, New Orleans; Sherry Sabolyk Landry, Deborah Margaret Henson, Evelyn Foley Pugh, Thomas Ainsworth Robichaux, Assistant City Attorneys, for respondents.

Richard Dale Moreno, lake Charles, for amicus curiae Richard D. Moreno.

Katherine Shaw Spaht, for amicus curiae, Katherine Shaw Spaht, Professor of Law.

John Randall Trahan, for amicus curiae, Randall J. Trahan, Associate Professor of Law.

KNOLL, Justice.

This case concerns a judgment of the district court declaring the constitutional amendment titled "Defense of Marriage," unconstitutional in violation of Article XIII, § 1(B) of the 1974 Constitution of Louisiana. For the following reasons we reverse, finding the district court erred by interpreting the single object requirement narrowly rather than employing a germane approach for a single object with multiple parts. We find each provision of...

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