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  2. 2000 California Proposition 22 - Wikipedia

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    The official citation of Proposition 22, the "California Defense of Marriage Act", is almost the same as that of a federal law, the Defense of Marriage Act, which was enacted by Congress in 1996. This federal law had a similar purpose, and was intended to prevent any state from being obligated to recognize a same-sex marriage contracted in ...

  3. 2008 California Proposition 8 - Wikipedia

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    The proposition was created by opponents of same-sex marriage in advance [3] of the California Supreme Court's May 2008 appeal ruling, In re Marriage Cases, which found the ban in 2000 on same-sex marriage (Proposition 22) unconstitutional. Proposition 8 was ultimately ruled unconstitutional in 2010 by a federal court on different grounds ...

  4. History of marriage in California - Wikipedia

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    On September 8, 1850, California entered the US as the 31st state of the union. At the time marriage statutes described marriage as "a civil contract to which the consent of the parties is required" [9] with gender specific pronouns applied to "husband" and "wife". Later court decisions and some statutes dating from both statehood and the 1872 ...

  5. Same-sex marriage in California - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  6. Your guide to Proposition 3: Affirming gay marriage in ... - AOL

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    The measure asks voters to change the California Constitution to enshrine a "fundamental right to marry" and remove language that defines marriage as between a man and a woman.

  7. The Supreme Court rules against California woman whose ... - AOL

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    The Supreme Court on Friday ruled against a California woman who said her rights were violated after federal officials refused to allow her husband into the country, in part, because of the way ...

  8. Perez v. Sharp - Wikipedia

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    Perez v. Sharp, [1] also known as Perez v. Lippold or Perez v.Moroney, is a 1948 case decided by the Supreme Court of California in which the court held by a 4–3 majority that the state's ban on interracial marriage violated the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution.

  9. 3 States Just Boosted Same-Sex Marriage Protections in Case ...

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    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 ...

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