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According to the United States Government Accountability Office (GAO), there are 1,138 statutory provisions [1] in which marital status is a factor in determining benefits, rights, and privileges. These rights were a key issue in the debate over federal recognition of same-sex marriage.
Child marriage Under the new law, any marriage where either person is under 18 years old is void. The age requirement only goes into effect for marriages on June 6 or later.
Aug. 22—The fiancé of a man shot and killed by Spokane Police in 2022 filed a federal lawsuit on Thursday alleging the city and police violated her rights and caused her emotional distress ...
Loving v. Virginia, 388 U.S. 1 (1967), was a landmark civil rights decision of the U.S. Supreme Court that ruled that laws banning interracial marriage violate the Equal Protection and Due Process Clauses of the Fourteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution.
Police violated Isaac Horton IV and Omeze Nwankwo’s constitutional rights when officers harassed and wrongly arrested them at Noir nightclub, according to a lawsuit filed in 2015.
In 1872, the Alabama Supreme Court ruled that the state's ban on mixed-race marriage violated the "cardinal principle" of the 1866 Civil Rights Act and of the Equal Protection Clause. [31] Almost a hundred years would pass before the U.S. Supreme Court followed that Alabama case (Burns v. State) in the case of Loving v. Virginia.
The police department in Worcester, Massachusetts, routinely violates individuals' constitutional rights by using excessive force and allowing undercover officers to engage in sexual contact with ...
Roberts also rejected the notion that same-sex marriage bans violated a right to privacy, because they involved no government intrusion or subsequent punishment. [137] Addressing the Equal Protection Clause , Roberts stated that same-sex marriage bans did not violate the clause because they were rationally related to a governmental interest ...