Back قضية أوبرجيفيل ضد هودجز Arabic Oberqefell Hocesə qarşı Azerbaijani Cas Obergefell contra Hodges Catalan Obergefell v. Hodges German Obergefell v. Hodges English Caso Obergefell contra Hodges Spanish ابرگفل در برابر هاجز Persian Obergefell vastaan Hodges Finnish Obergefell v. Hodges French פסק דין אוברגפל נגד הודג'ס HE
| Obergefell v. Hodges | |
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| Argued April 28, 2015 Decided June 26, 2015 | |
| Full case name | James Obergefell, et al., Petitioners v. Richard Hodges, Director, Ohio Department of Health, et al. |
| Docket nos. | 14-556 |
| Citations | 576 U.S. ___ (more) 135 S. Ct. 2584; 192 L. Ed. 2d 609; 83 U.S.L.W. 4592; 25 Fla. L. Weekly Fed. S 472; 2015 WL 2473451; 2015 U.S. LEXIS 4250; 2015 BL 204553 |
| Related cases | Bourke v. Beshear, DeBoer v. Snyder, Tanco v. Haslam, Love v. Beshear. |
| Argument | Oral argument |
| Opinion announcement | Opinion announcement |
| Holding | |
| 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. United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit reversed. Baker v. Nelson overturned. | |
| Court membership | |
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| Case opinions | |
| Majority | Kennedy, joined by Ginsburg, Breyer, Sotomayor, Kagan |
| Dissent | Roberts, joined by Scalia, Thomas |
| Dissent | Scalia, joined by Thomas |
| Dissent | Thomas, joined by Scalia |
| Dissent | Alito, joined by Scalia, Thomas |
| Laws applied | |
| U.S. Const. amend. XIV | |
This case overturned a previous ruling or rulings | |
| Baker v. Nelson (1972)[1] | |
Obergefell v. Hodges was a landmark decision United States Supreme Court case. The Court held that the recognition and provision of same-sex marriage is a fundamental right.[2] They ruled it is guaranteed by the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution.[a][2]
- ↑ Obergefell v. Hodges, No. 14-556, slip op. Archived 2015-06-26 at the Wayback Machine at 23 (U.S. June 26, 2015).
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Obergefell v. Hodges, 576 U.S. (2015) (“The Court now holds that same-sex couples may exercise the fundamental right to marry.”).
- ↑ "Fundamental Right". Cornell University Law School. Retrieved 30 June 2015.
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