Obergefell v. Hodges
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Obergefell v. Hodges is a landmark United States Supreme Court case in which the Court held in a 5–4 decision that the fundamental right to marry is guaranteed to same-sex couples by both the Due Process Clause and the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution.
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See also
- List of United States Supreme Court cases, volume 576
- Loving v. Virginia (1967), which legalized interracial marriages across the United States
- Bowers v. Hardwick (1986), which upheld the constitutionality of state sodomy laws
- Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA) (1996), which restricted marriage to opposite-sex couples for purposes of federal law
- Romer v. Evans (1996), which overturned state law aimed against homosexuals as failing rational basis review
- Lawrence v. Texas (2003), which held that states cannot criminalize same-sex sexual activity
- Goodridge v. Department of Public Health (2003), the court case that legalized same-sex marriage in Massachusetts (first state to do so in the U.S.)
- United States v. Windsor (2013), which held Section 3 of DOMA unconstitutional
- Same-sex marriage in the United States
- Same-sex marriage, a global overview
- LGBT rights in the United States
- Timeline of same-sex marriage in the United States
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