HOLLINGSWORTH v. PERRY

No. 12-144.

133 S.Ct. 2652 (2013)

186 L.Ed.2d 768

Dennis HOLLINGSWORTH et al., Petitioners v. Kristin M. PERRY et al.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided June 26, 2013.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Charles J. Cooper , for the petitioners.

Theodore B. Olson , for the respondents.

Donald B. Verrilli, Jr. , Solicitor General, for the United States as amicus curiae, by special leave of the Court, supporting the respondents.

Pamela S. Karlan , Jeffrey L. Fisher , Stanford Law School, Stanford, CA, James D. Esseks , Joshua A. Block , Leslie Cooper , Steven R. Shapiro , American Civil Liberties, New York, NY, Roberta A. Kaplan , Counsel of Record, Walter Rieman , Jaren Janghorbani , Colin S. Kelly , Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP, New York, NY, Arthur Eisenberg , Mariko Hirose , New York Civil Liberties Union Foundation, New York, NY, for Respondent Edith Schlain Windsor.

Donald B. Verrilli, Jr. , Solicitor General, Counsel of Record, Department of Justice, Washington, D.C, Stuart F. Delery , Principal Deputy Assistant, Attorney General, Sri Srinivasan , Deputy Solicitor General, Eric J. Feigin , Assistant to the Solicitor General, Michael Jay Singer , August E. Flentje , Helen L. Gilbert , Adam C. Jed , Attorneys, Department of Justice, Washington, D.C, for the United States on the Jurisdictional Questions.

Kerry W. Kircher , General Counsel, William Pittard , Deputy General Counsel, Christine Davenport , Senior Assistant Counsel, Todd B. Tatelman , Mary Beth Walker , Eleni M. Roumel , Assistant Counsels, Office of General Counsel, U.S. House of Representatives, Washington, D.C, Paul D. Clement , Counsel of Record, H. Christopher Bartolomucci , Nicholas J. Nelson , Michael H. McGinley , Bancroft PLLC, Washington, D.C, for Respondent The Bipartisan Legal Advisory Group of the United States House of Representatives.


Chief Justice ROBERTS delivered the opinion of the Court.

The public is currently engaged in an active political debate over whether same-sex couples should be allowed to marry. That question has also given rise to litigation. In this case, petitioners, who oppose same-sex marriage, ask us to decide whether the Equal Protection Clause "prohibits the State of California from defining marriage as the union of a man and a...

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