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  2. 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.

  3. 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 ...

  4. California Civil Code - Wikipedia

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    It was soon discovered that many more provisions of the new Civil Code conflicted with existing California statutes and case law. [7] In 1873, Stephen J. Field, Jackson Temple, and John W. Dwinelle were appointed to a Board of Code Examiners to investigate such issues. [7] In 1874, the legislature adopted the board's proposed amendments to the ...

  5. 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.

  6. California still has an anti-gay marriage law on the books ...

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    In practice, that law has been void for about a decade. In 2013, the U.S. Supreme Court cleared the way for same-sex marriage in the state. But it remains on the books and can only be removed by ...

  7. 2024 California Proposition 3 - Wikipedia

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    Proposition 3, titled Constitutional Right to Marry, was a California ballot proposition and legislative statutes that passed by vote on in the 2024 general election on November 5, 2024. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] The proposition repealed Proposition 8 passed during the 2008 general election and amend the state constitution to declare that the "right to marry ...

  8. 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 ...

  9. Child marriage is still legal in California. How could this ...

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    The world cannot keep its promise to end child marriage by year 2030 if California continues to hold up progress.