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[T]he state courts in Hawaii appear to be on the verge of requiring that State to issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples. The prospect of permitting homosexual couples to "marry" in Hawaii threatens to have very real consequences both on federal law and on the laws (especially the marriage laws) of the various States.
A referendum on Amendment 1 to the Constitution of Hawaii was held on November 5, 2024. The amendment repealed the Hawaii State Legislature's ability to limit marriage to heterosexual couples, [2] reversing the 1998 Hawaii Marriage Amendment. [3] The measure passed with 51.3% of the vote in support and 40.4% in opposition. [1]
Hawaii Housing Authority v. Midkiff , 467 U.S. 229 (1984), was a case in which the United States Supreme Court held that a state could use eminent domain to take land that was overwhelmingly concentrated in the hands of private landowners and redistribute it to the wider population of private residents.
Marriage law is the body of legal specifications and requirements and other laws that regulate the initiation, continuation, and validity of marriages, an aspect of family law, that determine the validity of a marriage, and which vary considerably among countries in terms of what can and cannot be legally recognized by the state.
The total damages of $753,500 amounts to $191,500 in compensatory damages for emotional distress and punitive damages under OSHA laws. ... but that a Department of Labor lawyer told her Wednesday ...
The Hawaii Supreme Court ruled on May 27, 2015 that Rep. McDermott and other plaintiffs did not show any injury from the enactment of the Hawaii Marriage Equality Act, meaning they did not have standing to challenge the law, and dismissed their case. [37] [38]
When BI spoke with Mark Bradford, Vandevender's attorney, two years after he lost the case, he seemed defeated. "I'm not sure what more you could possibly do to show deliberate indifference," he said.
The View star and legal expert Sunny Hostin's husband, Dr. Emmanuel "Manny" Hostin, is among the nearly 200 people named in a new federal lawsuit that accuses the New York City doctor of insurance ...