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The passage of Proposition 8 received widespread media coverage over the amendment's effect on the concurrent 2008 presidential and congressional elections, as well as the pre-election effects Proposition 8 had on California's reputation as a historically LGBT-friendly state and the same-sex marriage debate that had started after same-sex ...
Same-sex marriage has been legal in California since June 28, 2013. The State of California first issued marriage licenses to same-sex couples from June 16, 2008 to November 5, 2008, a period of approximately 4 months, 2 weeks and 6 days, as a result of the Supreme Court of California finding in the case of In re Marriage Cases that barring same-sex couples from marriage violated the ...
This article summarizes the same-sex marriage laws of states in the United States. Via the case Obergefell v.Hodges on June 26, 2015, the Supreme Court of the United States legalized same-sex marriage in a decision that applies nationwide, with the exception of American Samoa and sovereign tribal nations.
It would repeal a 2008 measure, known as Proposition 8, which voters approved to ban the state from recognizing same-sex marriages. In practice, that law has been void for about a decade.
In California, voters approved Proposition 3, which will remove the state's inactive 2008 ban on same-sex marriage from the constitution and instead guarantee the right for people to marry ...
California’s Proposition 3 would repeal and overwrite the state’s ban on same-sex marriage that’s still in California’s constitution. In 2008, the voters in the state approved Proposition ...
Hollingsworth v. Perry was a series of United States federal court cases that re-legalized same-sex marriage in the state of California. The case began in 2009 in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California, which found that banning same-sex marriage violates equal protection under the law.
No money would be available for the California State University or University of California systems. Proposition 3. This would remove the ban on same-sex marriage from the California Constitution ...