Obergefell v. Hodges - Oral Arguments and Ruling

Obergefell v. Hodges is the 2015 US Supreme Court case on the issue of whether gay marriage should be recognized as a right in the US.

• (The ruling, June 26, 2015, is to be found as a PDF at the Supreme Court's web site: #14–556, Ruling: "Held: The Fourteenth Amendment requires a State to license a marriage between two people of the same sex and to recognize a marriage between two people of the same sex when their marriage was lawfully licensed and performed out-of-State."
  I plan to put the document as HTML here too.)
• Transcript of the oral arguments before the US Supreme Court on April 28, 2015
• List of cases/etc mentioned in the transcript (mostly complete?), in order of mention:
  • The Due Process and Equal Protection Clauses of the Fourteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution
  • United States v. Windsor (2013)
  • Lawrence v. Texas (2003)
  • Bowers v. Hardwick (1986)
  • Brown v. Board of Education (1954)
  • Loving v. Virginia (1967)
  • Baker v. Nelson (1971)
  • Baehr v. Miike (1990-1999)
  • Reed v. Campbell (1986)
  • Craig v. Boren (1976)
  • Romer v. Evans (1996)
  • Zablocki v. Redhail (1978)
  • Turner v. Safley (1987)
  • Elane Photography v. Willock (2013)
  • Bob Jones University v. United States (1983)
  • Washington v. Glucksberg (1997)
  • Vance v. Ball State University (2013)
  • District of Columbia v. Heller (2008)
  • Nguyen v. INS (2001)
  • Kirchberg v. Feenstra (1981)
  • Schuette v. Coalition to Defend Affirmative Action (2014)
  • Skinner v. Oklahoma (1942)
  • Maynard v. Hill (1888)
  • Griswold v. Connecticut (1965)
  • Washington v. Davis (1976)
  • Personnel Administrator of Massachusetts v. Feeney (1979)
  • United States v. O'Brien (1968)
  • Bray v. Alexandria Women's Healch Clinic (1991)
  • Quackenbush, California Insurance Commissioner v. Allstate Insurance Co. (1996)
  • Alaska Packers Association v. Industrial Accident Commission of California (1935)
  • Nevada v. Hall (1979)
  • "Full Faith and Credit Clause" in Article IV of the US Constitution
• Links from things mentioned in passing... [except where noted, all are links to entries in the English Wikipedia]
  • Same-sex marriage in Massachusetts ← «... you can say 10 years of marriage for Massachusetts, but it's also...»
  • Same-sex marriage in Michigan ← «...that the primary purpose of the Michigan law limiting marriage to a man and a woman...»
  • Coverture ← «...we had and -- and Europe had this coverture system...»
  • Same-sex marriage, section "History" and Same-sex marriage in the Netherlands, section "History" ← «But I don't know of any -- do you know of any society, prior to the Netherlands in 2001, that permitted same-sex marriage?»

    And consider also: an article by a professor of anthropology, "Is same-sex marriage anything new?": "Clearly, none of the justices or the lawyers thought to ask an anthropologist. Any knowledgeable anthropologist would easily have answered 'yes.'"

  • "Homosexuality in ancient Greece" ← «That is not a universal opinion throughout history and across all cultures. Ancient Greece is an example.»
  • Plato's Symposium ← «People like Plato wrote in favor of that, did he not?»
  • !Kung People, section "Marriage" ← «If you read the -- about the Kalahari people or -- or ancient peoples»
  • Same-sex_marriage_in_Maine ← «The situation in Maine, I think, is -- is characteristic. In 2009, I guess»
  • Consanguine marriage ← «Sir, how about the consanguinity situation?»
  • Defense of Marriage Act ← «with respect to DOMA in Windsor, the nonrecognition laws»
• Links to who spoke when, in the transcript.
• The English Wikipedia page on Obergefell v. Hodges

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