Gill v. Office of Personnel Management
Complaint here. [pdf] Various plaintiffs married to or formerly married to and now widowed by persons of the same sex under Massachusetts law after Goodridge filed suit in the United States District Court for District of Massachusetts yesterday (case no. 1:2009cv10309) directly challenging the constitutionality of § 3 of the Federal Defense of Marriage Act, Pub L. No. 105–199, 110 Stat. 2419 (1996) (codified at 1 U.S.C. § 7) under implied equal protection afforded by the 5th Amendment’s Due Process Clause. (For those who aren’t aware, the “Equal Protection Clause” under which equal protection challenges are most often raised is part of [ . . . ]
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